I’d rather hear Vogon poetry.
25.02.2026 04:27 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’d rather hear Vogon poetry.
25.02.2026 04:27 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So Bree hinted at this story a few days ago, but I want to circle back now that I have permission to share it.
WHISTLES OUT: A WHISTLE CREW MYSTERY
Wow.
17.02.2026 03:59 — 👍 35762 🔁 16577 💬 1290 📌 2460I wrote FORTRAN programs on punch cards in college. I was the first licensed student operator of their brand new IBM 1130.
10.02.2026 07:34 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Smoke on the Water
05.02.2026 19:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lots of answers in classical music …
Beethoven 5
Beethoven 3
Grieg piano concerto (500 ms max)
Brahms 4
Orff Carmina Burana
Tchaikovsky 4
Grieg piano concerto, in under a second.
05.02.2026 18:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Interesting question to begin with, but then 😲 at the first comment: “I wrote the OED entry …”
20.12.2025 22:29 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That update is pending on my phone and I’ve been dreading it.
10.12.2025 18:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Zork flashback: “You are knee deep in bat guano …”
24.11.2025 06:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Grey’s law: Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
23.11.2025 19:19 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
I thought of the falling whale:
“I wonder if it will be friends with me?”
To Poochie is to disappear (verb, transitive) an unwelcome character as quickly and bluntly as possible. Relevant bit in the Wikipedia article:
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Poochie gets clumsily removed ..., and a handwritten intertitle explains, "Poochie died on the way back to his home planet."
This compelled me to research the verb "to Poochie". Does everyone else already know this?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Itc...
Cool thread for music nerds, who may look at 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 and think "wait, isn't that just like ...?"
03.11.2025 18:10 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Made me look. Sure enough, could have been the same time in Pensacola, FL and Ontario, OR.
02.11.2025 16:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I was gonna mention that.
24.10.2025 16:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ooh, I like this, and it captures well “Your religion is fine as long as it doesn’t hurt people.”
It also calls to mind the joke:
“What’s the difference between ignorance and apathy?”
“I don’t know and I don’t care.”
Cosmic Osmo and the Worlds Beyond the Mackerel [1989]
27.09.2025 05:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Asteroids [1979]
27.09.2025 05:37 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Asteroids [1979]
27.09.2025 05:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Leisure Suit Larry
27.09.2025 05:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hurrah! (I just preordered Fatsis’s “Unabridged” on your recommendation.)
26.09.2025 16:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A friend was once denied 4QUERAY (Forqueray, French composer of Baroque harpsichord music) because DMV thought he hated Ray.
24.09.2025 04:39 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Grey’s law: Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
14.09.2025 22:22 — 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Not even taking a break to finish that symphony?
05.09.2025 21:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!” — DNA
26.08.2025 19:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s the people who assert, whether you’re one of them or not.
25.08.2025 21:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh yes, pictures would squelch the imagination.
28.07.2025 21:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0