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Entries Tagged as 'Lulz'

On the other side from you

June 13th, 2011 · Comments Off · Lulz

It’s been a while since I’ve posted a LOLcat on here – so let’s rectify that with this offering today, featuring an all-too-familiar story of haunting, death, and thwarted love.

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When Basement Cat comes to call…

February 23rd, 2010 · Comments Off · Lulz

Be very careful about what you gamble your immortal soul on. That is all.

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Going for the burn…

January 17th, 2009 · Comments Off · Lulz, This sporting life

Botheration’s Quote of the Week cuts through smug anti-intellectualism to a stark nugget of truth about the condition of English cricket…

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Entropa: The best public art installation in the world, ever

January 14th, 2009 · Comments Off · Bizarre news, But is it Art?, Lulz

On the verge of the unveiling, the public art project representing each of Europe’s nations as a pop-out piece from an Airfix kit, turns out to be not quite what the Great and Good were expecting. And everyone, absolutely everyone, has found something to be offended about.

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The conversations geeks have

January 13th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Lulz

How CSS has the cure for cancer, the solution to war in the Middle East, and fixes for any other social ills you care to name…

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You just can't get the people nowadays…

December 9th, 2008 · Comments Off · Bizarre news, Lulz, Speechless

This is one that the publisher of the below-mentioned magazine really should have seen coming: the so-called Chinese classical poem illustrating its cover is reputedly an ad for a Macau brothel.

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Breaking into Tesco: how not to do it.

October 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off · Bizarre news, Lulz

The moral of this tale? If contemplating breaking and entering – buy a decent belt.

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Out of the mouths of miners and amateur chefs…

October 21st, 2008 · Comments Off · Lulz

Jamie Oliver’s collected a fair bit of stick for his new Ministry of Food education campaign. But one of his converts has it absolutely spot on.

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Cleese on Palin (S, not M): "A nice-looking parrot"

October 14th, 2008 · Comments Off · A bit of politics, Lulz, Smoke and mirrors

John Cleese, asked what he thinks of Sarah Palin, bursts out laughing. He then says: “It’s like a nice-looking parrot.” Watch him on YouTube and share the laughter.

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The perfect desktop background for the month of November

October 13th, 2008 · Comments Off · Lulz, The Queen's English

Cat, slumped over laptop keyboard: “Writers blox – I has it”

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The Joe Kinnear school of media management

October 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off · Lulz, The Queen's English

This, from Joe Kinnear’s inaugural and quite likely only press conference as caretaker manager of beleagured Newcastle United Football Club, is priceless. Nothing like clearing the air from the outset.

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Lolcats: spy-fi TV edition

October 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off · Big damn heroes, sir, Lulz, Serendipitous

Calling all Alias fans. Think of this as Lolcats: Jack and Sydney Bristow edition.

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Don't bottle it up, say what you mean…

September 27th, 2008 · Comments Off · Bizarre news, Lulz

Here’s something that’s just too good not to share. Mourners at a Shrewsbury graveyard have got a little impatient at being told what they can and cannot put on the graves of loved ones. So they fought back. Do not click on the following link with a mouthful of liquid

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Time for yet another silly joke

August 5th, 2008 · Comments Off · Lulz

Newsnight presenter Gavin Esler is an unlikely source of very silly jokes. However, when his turn to compose the nightly viewers’ taster email comes around (a task not all his fellow presenters can bring themselves to undertake) he includes a quote of the day and a Joke Fit for a 12-year-old.

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More goats in a tree…

July 19th, 2008 · Comments Off · Lulz

A ‘goats in a tree’ lolcat for your delectation.

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Time for a silly joke

June 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Lulz

Today’s Newsnight email has one of its regular Jokes Fit for an Eleven-Year-Old.

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Bringing you the daily Sloth

June 2nd, 2008 · Comments Off · Lulz

Today’s edition of Teh Daily Sloth.

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That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet…

May 21st, 2008 · Comments Off · Lulz, Speechless, The Queen's English

Today The Independent visits Dorset where, in among all the ‘piddles’ that have discreetly been converted to ‘puddles’ is, apparently this gem. What is it with this county and its lavatorial associations?

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"Er, did anyone try just pushing this little red button?"

May 18th, 2008 · Comments Off · Lulz, The Queen's English

Here’s Neil Gaiman’s bid for funniest man in the world, apropos of David Tennant’s decision to temporarily hang up his trenchcoat and blue suit and play Hamlet.

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"'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory!"

May 16th, 2008 · Comments Off · Bizarre news, Lulz, Weird and wonderful

Here’s that wonderful thing, an expert with a sense of humour.

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