Category Archives: humour

The Onion nails it again. Last line is the best, imho

http://www.theonion.com/articles/study-majority-of-americans-not-informed-enough-to,32124/

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CEOs as replicants?! #empathy #bladerunner #dilbert

From here You’re allowed to like both Tom Tomorrow and Scott Adams, right?

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SMBC video: “Culture Warriors” versus Jesus…

A giant green-bearded Jesus eating communist skyscrapers? Is that a sentence that has every been typed before, eh?

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Dilbert on job satisfaction; “what people feel right before they die from stress-related problems”

The full strip is here.

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From the Anals of Internal Medicine

On my first job, I met a surgical registrar whose mobile was full of photographs of items he’d extracted from patients. At the end of each operation he’d have himself photographed, posing like a proud father with whatever he’d retrieved: … Continue reading

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Picture of a cat, because the internet is running out of them

Too lazy to do a proper post today, and have realised that the photo I was about to send to Mrs Towers of our awesome bundle of fur and brain cell* will suffice. * Yes, singular, not plural

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To be or not to be? Hitler, Mel Brooks, Leonard Cohen and the extinction of the species.

Of course, next time that particular strand of Western civilisation comes around again, we won’t have the farm-boys of Kansas and – more importantly – the guts of the kids from the Urals – to defeat the monster. Meh, whatever. … Continue reading

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Vegans complicit in animal cruelty! Can we change it? “Yes we can”

From here

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Penis mightierthan thesword

Mrs Towers (the reason for this blog’s silence the last two days) and I were sat in a cafe in Grasmere this morning. I was reading the Financial Times magazine. There was an article comparing a Philip Roth novel and … Continue reading

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Camus meets the Terminator…

From here And there’s this too – http://dwighttowers.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/schwarzenegger-ends-term-as-governor-lowers-himself-into-molten-metal/

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