Month: April 2016

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comparativelysuperlative:

kelsbraintumbler:

brozilek:

brozilek:

OK but like, “Frankenstein’s Monster”, a being capable of thought and speech, refers to Victor Frankenstein as his father. So why wouldn’t it be ok to call him Frankenstein, seeing as it’s his dad’s last name??? Do we have to make up a first name for him, just to differentiate between them?

Dwight Frankenstein

if Victor had continued to like him after he brought him to life, he probably would have named him Adam? Victor’s religious thing was not exactly subtle.

He would have, but Dwight doesn’t like that name. “I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.” So I think we should respect his preferences and call him Satan.

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#Frankenstein #a conversation I’m pretty sure I’ve had at least once: #”*something about Frankenstein [the monster]*” #”Frankenstein was the *creator* not the monster!” #”Okay fine Frankenstein *Junior*”

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femmeprince:

lalaithion:

kuklarusskaya:

geeofficerkrupke:

One time, the Queen of England decided to knight a loyal member of her country who happened to be Jewish. 

This man knew that knights were supposed to say something in Latin as the Queen knighted them, but didn’t remember the line, so he quickly said “ma nishtana halaila hazeh micol haleilot”

This, of course, confused the Queen, who turned to her advisor and asked “Why is this knight different from all other knights?”

GROAAANNN

this is one of the best jewish jokes I have possibly ever heard

Passover is coming up soon so I thought I’d bring this back.

@chroniclesofrettek I’m sure you have heard this one before. But it seemed right to tag you.

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#Judaism #Passover #…oh dear god #puns

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nostalgebraist:

brazenautomaton:

nostalgebraist:

The book Bad Monkeys was so promising for the first 2/3 and then the last third was just so … I was going to say “I don’t know how to describe how bad it was” but that’s too harsh, it’s more like it has a type of badness I never knew existed before

I can’t think of any analogy that really works, but it’s sort of like what would happen if someone tried to come up with “the coolest story ever” by writing down a list of every fiction trope they liked, and then just used the giant list of tropes as the outline for their story, without filling in anything else, so the good guys are literally named “the Good Guys” and thematic tropes like “determining someone’s true nature” become “now I will use a True Nature Detector on you”

And as the book goes on, the author includes more and more tropes at an increasing rate, ending in a sort of omega point that is almost literally this

how had I never seen this sketch before

also I went to have the book spoiled and all them goodread…ers said things about the ending falling apart but didn’t go into specifics

since I won’t read this book, if you feel like going into detail as to just w the f, I would be appreciative

Actually, having just read it, that would be kind of therapeutic

Complete spoilers under the cut, obviously

Keep reading

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(both the bit under the cut and the linked video)

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unpretty:

there was a golden age superman comic where someone called a hit out on clark kent, and so a sniper tried to shoot him while he was out having lunch with lois

except he’s fucking superman so the bullets just fell off his chest into his lunch and clark just had to pretend nothing happened and hope lois wouldn’t notice that someone just fucking shot him

the hitman thinks maybe he just missed and gets ready to shoot him again, but then he’s watching through the scope as clark starts to eat the fucking bullets to hide the fucking evidence, acting like everything is totally normal as he noshes down on lead

dude just packs his shit up and leaves town because reporters in this city eat bullets for lunch and he’s not fucking with that no way no how

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#Superman

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responsible-reanimation:

deusvulture:

*browsing a new blog*

*person reblogged a certain kind of niche fetish porn*

Me: oh, [mutual] is into that, I should airplane them this po-

Me: wait

Me: what the fuck am I doing

Informal porn-sharing networks are a thing of beauty, and I for one heartily endorse sending people weird stuff you know they’re into as a quality social norm (assuming you know they’re comfortable with it).

Just remember to Ctrl-C something else later.

Something to add to that list of questionable blogging-etiquette assumptions?

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#I have been having trouble lately forming Opinions #but judging from the fact that #when I saw the Vampire Duchies were inspired by me #my response was ‘aww that’s sweet’ #I feel reasonably safe inferring that I endorse this norm #reply via reblog #sexuality and lack thereof #nsfw?

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idiopathicsmile:

the thing i like about the word “your” is that if you split it in half, both “yo” and “ur” in the right context also mean “your” 

it’s like if a lizard lost its tail and grew a new one, but also the tail grew a new lizard 

if you snip out the middle instead, “yr” means “your” also

lizards can’t even begin to do that

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#language

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justice-turtle:

just-shower-thoughts:

If poison reaches its expiry date, will it become more poisonous or less poisonous?

probably the expiry date indicates when it will lose its effectiveness as a poison, unless the expiry date was for something unrelated to its poisonous properties, which I’m having trouble coming up with a potential example of

Medication comes to mind. There are meds where the definition of a “toxically high dose” broadens if the dose in question is very old.

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#poison cw #reply via reblog

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responsible-reanimation:

brin-bellway:

responsible-reanimation:

If there’s anything you shouldn’t mind, it’s an expression- especially a ferocious expression, the result of Molly Velvet’s nephew being harassed by the Rescue Rangers.

I get the punchline (the ferocious expression caused by Rescue Rangers), but not the lead-up (”if there’s anything you shouldn’t mind, it’s an expression”).

This is…probably backwards, isn’t it.

The other half is this legendarily clunky bit of exposition.

(Here’s the Ferocious Expression part, for those who haven’t seen it.)

Ah, so both halves are high-context. Good to know.

(I do not speak Magic the Gathering, but I do have a pretty good grasp of rationalist in-jokes. (This afternoon, some guy in the episode of The West Wing Mom was watching was running under multiple parties, and it was only with great effort that I resisted the urge to say “He’s also Strange Kek and Charm Kek.” I did not feel like explaining the history of Finland to my mother on short notice, let alone “top kek”, quark types, and how all of these mesh into a hilarious whole.))

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#reply via reblog #high context jokes #explaining the joke

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