Recent content by Iain Aschendale

The problem is a lot of people doing celebratory shooting don't fire straight up or even close. When a bullet is arcing it can retain a lot more velocity. And while this is an extreme example, the US Air Force used a weapon called the Lazy Dog in Vietnam, which basically dropped a whole bunch of...

Australian actor Julian MacMahon, of Nip/Tuck and others, has died of cancer at age 56.

It reminds me of this, in spirit: “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” ― Mark Twain

Michael Madsen, only 67 years old. I haven't seen his work in a long time.

I was just listening to Tom Lehrer about 3 minutes ago. Baader Meinhoff phenomenon to the max.

Noted American televangelist Jimmy Swaggart is currently finding out whether his assumptions about the afterlife and his place in it were correct or not. And that's all I have to say about that.

I would love to see the incident that provoked that rule!

Show me where it forbids the ball hitting your nose. If the ball happens to...remain...there, I'd argue the elephant is just heading the ball. However, if (s)he kicked the ball with her forelimbs, the ref could call hands.

Actually, one's nose is part of one's face, in turn part of one's head, so an elephant would be able to pick the ball up and walk it, held high above the defenders, to the opposing goal without violating any existing rules. I think. Get Disney on this stat!

“He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening mine.” -Benjamin Franklin

Huh, don't click other tabs on your tablet with this software. That lengthy post is gone. Dr. Demento is retiring.

OGLAF!!!!! Yup, still every Sunday.

"I chose the Civil War period to write about because I was raised on it. As a child, I heard everything about it except that the Confederacy lost." -Margaret Mitchell. author of Gone With the Wind.

From The Guardian, an opinion piece on a nasty gossip site: So since Lusitania was an ocean liner, not a cruise ship, I'm not sure what we're supposed to infer. Other than that the professional writer doesn't know that words have meanings and the editor got canned in the last round of layoffs.

Aw man, there goes my long-delayed Martha Stewart/Snoop Dogg pegging story. I'm still gonna write it, but I guess it'll have to go straight to the smut sites uncritiqued. Oh well :)