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I ffffound a wwwwebsite today. It hhhhas llllots of ppppictures on it. Ssssome of them aaaare vvvvery ffffunny!

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via John Scalzy.

Ah, I’ve been there. Mine was dual-booting OS X onto an unsupported Dell PC. I had a second Hard Disk that I was putting it onto, yet somehow I managed to screw up the Windows partition as well. Luckily I didn’t destroy the laptop. And I never got near the sharks…

And, yet another plug for xkcd.com - if you haven’t subscribed to his RSS feed, then you really should.

That quote, my friends, is why you should really think more about what you type, and how it may be interpreted.

I use eBay a bit, so I found this pretty funny:

From xkcd.com - if you don’t subscribe to his RSS feed, you really should.

from xkcd.com, the greatest web-comic ever:

Don’t read anything into it, just laugh

In a comment to ongoing · Pantone’s Missed Chance:

“Pantone 7547 is the new Pantone 7413.”

That would be one of the funniest isthenewisms I have heard. By the way, I just made that word up. They feel a bit like a metaphor, but I think with the humourous context to which it is applied, that no longer makes sense. In many cases, isthenewisms are paralogisms. Yes, I looked that up, too. It got me thinking, though, and I did a bit of Googling. Leisure Arts has a pretty cool diagram from 2005, which has a whole range of these. Some highlights:

• gin is the new vodka
• Java is the new COBOL
• nepotism is the new polio (What the fuck does this mean?)

Apparently, and I’m quoting Wikipedia here, the catch phrase started in 1963 with “Pink is the black of India”, and by the 1980s, it had become “… is the new black”. Also, according to Wikipedia, these are called Snowclones, where they are misquoted, abused and so on. As well as … is the new …, there is also “All your … are belong to us”, and “… or bust”. Man, this millennium is great. It would have taken me all day to find that out when I was still at Uni, let alone at school. Google is the new, well, Google. •

1. _ Pantone 7547 __ is the new __ Pantone 7413 _: if you can’t see my colours, then (almost) black is the new orange. Not sure if the author meant for this to be the other way around!
2. nepotism is the new polio : I’ve searched, and the only reference I can find is to this chart!

BBC Radio 4 - Comedy - Hut 33:
Hut 33 is a new sitcom from the award winning creators of Think the Unthinkable
And, I don’t seem to be able to get realdump to work properly to grab it. Not that I’d have the first few episodes, anyway. I have to just hope that the ABC decide to play it, and I remember to listen…

Love this image. It looks like she really wants to, as well… (Flickr, via Limbicnutrition)