Today's featured article
Edvard Munch (1830-1939) was an artist, painter, lover and lapdancer born in Oslo, Norway, who lived to the age of 109. He is noted for his particular skill in getting his paintings nicked. No other artist has had so many works stolen from beyond the grave as Mr. Munch. They walk out of galleries all over Scandinavia, often turning up in jumble sales and rubbish bins and handed back to the galleries, only to to be stolen all over again a few weeks later.
Expressionism and Me
Munch worked in the Expressionist Idiom, which is a coffee bar in the suburbs of Oslo. His excessive consumption of coffee led to his expressionist manner of furiously dashing off a painting on the back of a cereal packet in under thirty minutes and then punching a hole through it with his fist. Modern Norwegians all over the world look at him as their god and honour him each and every day before breakfast by hammering their brains out of their head with a hammer onto a fresh, white tablecloth, previously innocent of human blood. (more...)
Yesterday's featured article
Prior to decimalisation, when Great Britain and Ireland adopted a confusing monetary system based around a pound made up of one hundred pennies, a far more logical system known as LSD was used. L, S and D are the first letters of the names given to the different units of coin - L obviously stands for pounds and D stands for pennies (or pence). So far, everything is straightforward. Oddly however, S stands for shillings.
Though pre-decimal currency is thought confusing by people under the age of 40 and foreigners, it really was much easier than the current system - and will undoubtedly be reintroduced if right-thinking British people get their way - as we shall see here. (more...)
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Did you know...
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- ...that they say that "If at first you don't succeed, lower your standards."?
- ...that in German, you can easily wordyouanywaylikesentencetogetherputtingbybuild? In fact, it's mandatory. Talk like Yoda and take out the spaces.
- ....that in both reverse and in ROT13, Gert would become Treg?
- ...that the water powered bus is an environmentally-friendly mode of public transport?
- ...that the best way to remove a splinter is to coax it out gently, with mild encouragement?
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In the news
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- Texan trapped in Christmas supermarket chaos for 28 hours
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On this day...
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| Colonization of the Week
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The Big Lebowski
Help us clear the ivy of crap,
and plant the seeds of humour.
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