Category Archives: Fark!

Maxwell’s Silver Hammer

June 21, 2009 – 10:37 am

As Legal Eagle, Deus Ex Macintosh and a couple of others know, I have three characters in this novel who are — to greater or lesser degrees — torturers. One of them also has an excellent sense of humour. I mean, the little shit’s actually outstandingly funny. I tried to change this early on in [...]

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There are only 7 plots…

June 9, 2009 – 4:51 am

… And all of ‘em are in Homer.
Well, that’s the story, anyway. Sometimes the magic number is eleven. Sometimes the magic number is three. Sometimes it’s something else. Sometimes Virgil gets a look-in, but usually Homer gets the blame for the sum total of basic plotlines in Western Literature. I used to think this assertion [...]

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Ooops, too many zeros…

May 22, 2009 – 12:13 pm

In the Sydney Morning Herald today:
A New Zealand couple who fled the country after receiving millions of dollars in a banking error may have had a 16-day head start on police.
It also emerged the couple may now be in China, and that other family members were also missing.
The unnamed couple, believed to be Asian man [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Law, Restitution | Comments (18)

Life imitates fiction

April 25, 2009 – 12:43 pm

My daughter has red-gold curls, and a temper to match the hair colour. I was driving home the other day when she started to throw a tantrum in the back of the car. I really wished there was some kind of “cone of silence” which I could impose on her, so that I could still [...]

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Monday Funnie: Full moon over Aberdeen (now with bonus Incendiary Immigration)

April 20, 2009 – 6:00 am

A teenager has been arrested and charged in connection with an indecent act which took place during a live BBC Scotland broadcast in Aberdeen.
The 16-year-old was arrested over the incident which took place in St Nicholas graveyard, shortly after the helicopter crash memorial service.
The incident happened just after 1830 BST on Wednesday, 15 April, and [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Also posted in Funnies, Media | Comments (35)

To cheer up Legal Eagle

April 13, 2009 – 10:43 pm

One of Russia’s most famous statues of Vladimir Lenin has been bombed, leaving the Bolshevik revolutionary with a gaping hole in his rear.
The bronze statue, in the city of St Petersburg, was badly damaged before dawn on Wednesday, when the blast blew a hole in Lenin’s coat. No-one was hurt in the attack, the motive [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Also posted in Funnies, History, Philosophy, Politics, The Left | Tagged | Comments (27)

Bad Paintings of Obama

April 2, 2009 – 3:43 pm

The Daily Telegraph featured a selection of bad paintings of Obama, taken from a site called badpaintingsofbarackobama.com.
Also noteworthy was the three-eyed Obama, and the Obama with a world on his forehead and blue veins everywhere. I really don’t know what it was all about.

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Need to know about cheese?

March 28, 2009 – 8:27 am

Every year, British magazine The Bookseller runs a competition for the oddest book title. The winner for 2008 is “The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-milligram Containers of Fromage Frais”. It costs $795 on Amazon.
I was wondering how there could possibly be a market for a book like this, or why anyone would write it?  The [...]

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Mens rea of a monkey…

March 12, 2009 – 4:38 pm

You all know that I’m obsessed with animals and the law, and I’ve discussed the case of Chico the delinquent macaque. Well, Santino the chimpanzee looks like he’s a delinquent too. The BBC reports:

A male chimpanzee in a Swedish zoo planned hundreds of stone-throwing attacks on zoo visitors, according to researchers.
Keepers at Furuvik Zoo found [...]

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Monday Funnies

February 24, 2009 – 4:57 am

A couple claiming benefits who sailed part way around the world on a £100,000 yacht have been warned they face jail.
Shashi Bacheta, 52, had claimed she was so ill she had trouble getting out of bed, but investigators said she would go scuba diving.
Bacheta, of Swansea, admitted 16 counts relating to benefit fraud worth about [...]

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