Totally Psyched!
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tgirsch
I’m pretty sure, I’ve linked this before, but it’s a brilliant piece of satire. Flame on!
I’m pretty sure, I’ve linked this before, but it’s a brilliant piece of satire. Flame on!
Royalty was like dandelions. No matter how many heads you chopped off, the roots were still there underground, waiting to spring up again.
It seemed to be a chronic disease. It was as if even the most intelligent person had this little blank spot in their heads where someone had written: "Kings. What a good idea." Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees.
-- Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
Wow! and here I thought that procedure was more like a nasal cauterization.
Comment 4/11/2008
It gets better. Some anti-choice idiot read the story and took it seriously, then blogged post after post of unbelievably gullible sermonizing about it - even after I drew attention to his stupidity on my bioethics blog and he netted close to 2,000 comments informing him in no subtle way that he was a total moron. He finally had to shut down the blog.
My post on the story got me over 8,000 hits in a couple of weeks - the only time I’ve ever gotten more than about 100 a day. The original article is a perfect Onion classic, but this guy’s response was even more priceless.
Comment 4/12/2008