Memes Blog

After plush Cthulhus, now we have Deep One dolls. Am I the only person that thinks they look like Michael Howard (The one with “Something of the night about him”)?
(Link from Turn of a Friendly Die)

Graaaagh! (But watch out for the popups!)

This shows a Nigerian 419 scammer meeting his match. Don’t mess with Great Cthulhu, or you will lose what little sanity you had!.

The Smart Engine tries to answer your multiple choice questions. Not sure how it works, but Cory Doctorow suspects it’s doing searches in Google and comparing the sizes of the result sets.

I tried the following, starting with an easy one; who recorded “Abominog”

(a) Uriah Heep
(b) Led Zeppelin
(c) The Spice Girls
(d) Belgium

It got that one right, so I tried making it match up the following bloggers with their blogs

(a) Andrew Ian Dodge
(b) Dawn Olsen
(c) Scott M Baron
(d) Peter Mandleson

It correctly matched the first two, but seems to think that Scott is the MP for Hartlepool. (As far as I know, Mandy doesn’t have a blog)

I asked it about Tony Blair – is he?

(a) Dubya’s poodle
(b) An arrogant control freak
(c) Nothing but a cheesy grin
(d) Belgium

This clearly confused it, because it answered (d).

It’s pretty clueless on trains – I gave it a list of these four first-generation British locomotive manufacturers:

(a) Brush
(b) English Electric
(c) Beyer-Peacock
(d) North British

It seems to think Class 47s, class 50s and Hymeks all came from North British. Which is clearly wrong, because all of them actually worked.

However, when asked about Virgin Train’s new trains

(a) Voyagers
(b) Turbostars
(c) Pacers
(d) A load of rubbish

It correctly picked option (d)

Addendum: I realised there was no gaming one, so let’s match Roleplaying games with monsters.

(a) Shoggoth
(b) Neo-Otyugh
(c) Broo
(d) Peter Mandelson

And this time, it got all four of them right – although “New Labour:The Spinning” has yet to be published

Thanks to Scott – Soda Constructor. I won’t attempt to describe it, just see for yourself.

What it says – Fireworks!! From Silflay Hraka

Many of us have received those annoying “419 scam” letters pretending to be the relatives of deposed African dictators wanting to smuggle their ill-gotten gains looted from national treasuries out of the country. However, this one made me laugh out loud!

It had to happen. Not to be outdone by those Glasgow fish-and-chip shops’ deep-fried Mars Bars and Creme Eggs, now a fad for Deep Fried Twinkies is sweeping America.

The fact that a deep-fried Twinkie — before toppings — has roughly three times the calories and six times the fat of a regular one does not seem to bother customers such as Sue Holz.

“It’s been years since I’ve had a Twinkie because they gross me out, but this is good. Real good,” she said.

Does she know, I wonder, that Glasgow is the coronary capital of Europe? From Boing Boing.

Surely there are better reasons to be a Methodist than this.

From Davezilla comes this.

Few know that Saint Isidore is the Patron Saint of the Internet. While Catholic.org offers the handy, “Prayer before logging on to the Internet”, it neglects many other areas of concern for spiritual surfers. I would like to correct that oversight.