Abigail Brady

music quiz this evening. i think i caused a net +1 to be added to the team's score. i'm not sure why i bother really (about anything). on the upside, i've had an AWFUL LOT OF CIDER.

so i was talking to the rest of the team and it turns out they'd never heard of POKEY THE PENGUIN, can you believe it?

Some good strips are Pokey #1 Pokey #2 (Pokey and his Friends) Pokey has an Identical Twin The Forbidden Candy Pokey and Yekop (in which pokey deals with his counterpart from an alternate universe) Welcome to Rum Island The Skeptopotamus The Power of Democray/You Can Count On Stalin. How can you not love a comic which has lines like 'HERE ON RUM ISLAND WE DO NOT BELIEVE IN RUM!'?

Also those of you who are geometrically inclined should check out a cartoon which has EVEN WORSE ARTWORK, Triangle and Robert, which is about a triangle called, um, Triangle, and a rhombus called Robert. They insult their cartoonist. A lot. (here for the main page, earlier link was archive)

And bizarre road sign experiment (hunt around the site for more).

oh, and i appear to have ended up with 2 more bottles of beer somehow. the the cupboard with them! (i now have TWELVE!)

Earlier today, at approximately 12:54 I recieved a revelation from somewhere or something revealing to me the ULTIMATE TRUTH OF THE UNIVERSE. Since it seems to be the done thing to share such revelations, I thought I would do so.

The ULTIMATE TRUTH OF THE UNIVERSE, which is applicable to every situation ever and should always be born in mind : is as follows

( ... )

We are discussing Caligula...

me: That sounds like the type of thing Tony Blair might do actually - if he had a horse - put it in the Lords.

colleague: Yeah. The problem is it might vote neigh.

I realised I had the perfect topic to write about on Uncyclopedia (the parody of Wikipedia).

Ladies, gentlemen, and other beings, I present Stamfordshire!.

note to self: no heraldry jokes at work

Mark: Are you left-handed?
Finn: No...
Abi: He's just sinister.

[ there is a DEADLY SILENCE, and TUMBLEWEEDS ]

In the song The Teddy Bears' Picnic it is said that "if you go down to the woods to-day, you'd better go in disguise", because "the teddy bears [are having] their picnic", and that if you don't you'll be "in for a big surprise". It further says that if you do go, "you'd better not go alone" and that it is "safer to stay at home".

This always confused me when I was a child. What precisely would the teddy bears do to you if they saw you not in disguise?

I think I was under the impression they were violent teddy bears who would not appreciate human visitors and probably kill them, possibly torturing them first. Am I disturbed?

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Cafe Scientifique this evening - this time is The Science of Middle Earth, given by Henry Gee, an editor for Nature. Did a bit of usenet searching and it seems he (a) knows his stuff about science, (b) knows his stuff about Tolkien and (c) is a good speaker. Not clear what he'll be talking about, but it apparently might include what Mithril could be, Hobbits vs those skeletons they found in Flores, and whether Balrogs have wings (and if so can they fly?).

( Balrogs: do they have wings? )

Is it a saint? Is it an angel? No, it is the Incredible Popeman!