C’est Rire category archive
Words Fail Me 0
Read about the fail.
Headline of the Day 0
I can see it now: “Hello, let me introduce myself. I’m Superintendent of Mars.”
College Daze 0
Ruth Ann Daily is confused.
She seems to think that there was a time when college fraternities and sororities weren’t all about snobbery, drinking pretentiousness, and partying.
Getting It Right 0
This newspaper correction made me smile.
“A Flightless Bird with Hairy Feathers” 0
Readers of the BC comic strip will recognize the reference.
Residents of western Pennsylvania may recognize the bird.
The Bigfoot of Beaver County, it turns out, is a bird.
“It looks like an ostrich,” Sgt. Becze said a man told him a week ago, when the first call came in for a sighting of an odd creature standing in the middle of Route 588.
It may look like an ostrich, but the bird that’s been rambling through North Sewickley is a rhea, another flightless bird.
It’s the rhea thing.
Gamed 0
Click through the warning and enter a birthday.
Despite what it says, there’s no language, fake violence, and little maturity.
And Now for Something Completely Different 0
Warning: Some incidental language.
News, Ripped from the Ticker 0
(The usual) Warning: Language.
Dread Diseases 0
You can’t make this stuff up.
Blood Red Hearts 0
Pamela Haag recaps the bloody history of Valentine’s Day. A nugget:
Incidentally, St. Valentine (as the two Valentines seem to have merged into one figure by the 9th century) is the patron saint of epileptics, not lovers.
Medieval miracle plays based on the Bishop of Terni Valentine show him brutally beaten, bloodied, and decapitated before angels transport him to heaven. It really puts you in a mood for love.
Shows what skilled PR can do for an image.