Beyond Beyond the Fringe category archive
Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? 0
Perhaps the Austrian police can answer that question.
The Fire Next TIme 0
News of the vapid:
The malfunctioning devices have forced at least one aircraft to land, started fires on ships and left sailors with second-degree burns . The injuries have occurred when the devices were being used, charged or replaced, or when they came into inadvertent contact with metal objects, according to the Navy.
The story goes on to point out that the “Vaping” business association, which is not called “Nicotine Addiction Pays Big Bucks,” is protesting.
Bachmann Spurner Overdrive 0
Farron Cousins notes a classic example of psychological projection.
Words fail me.
(Errant “div” tag fixed.)
Jonesing the Trumpling 0
Warning: Language.
It’s an “Alt-Skunk” 0
Dan Casey explains.
According to my brother, who has seen a few of these and who linked me up to the picture, the scent is the same.
Afterthought:
Some years ago, when Second Son was still a little kid maybe four or five, I saw a skunk on the front stoop. I called Second Son over and said, “Look, a skunk.”
Then we went inside real quick.
When I was a young ‘un, Tiger, the best dog who ever lived, sometimes came home after tangling with a skunk. One never forgets that acrid smell.
Breathe Easy 0
The country is safe until Monday.
And Now for Something Completely Different 0
A little Ernie Kovacs seems a fitting end this screwy year.
What’s Next? 0
(As for the question in the title, I don’t want to know.)
Cruel and Unusual 1
Stop them before it’s too late.
A Facebook post from the Kensington Police Department of Prince Edward Island warns would-be partiers in the Great White North to avoid getting behind the wheel tipsy, lest they be caught, booked and serenaded by the 21st century’s discount Bon Jovi.
Bombe de Terre 0
When a potato is a pineapple:
She carried on her cooking as normal and it was only when her husband came home and ran the “rock” under the tap that they discovered it was in fact a grenade from 1917.
