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One this page which bears the legend "Mind blown," there is a comment that is even more mind-blowing to me than the image up top...

Satire from bystanders may cut both ways , but satire and humor from participants can be simultaneously funny and apt. From Wisconsin: Photo...

As previously investigated here, bygone times are full of hilarity -- if one didn't have to live through them. For instance, we've ...

Jerks worthy to pester, those cash for gold scammers .

Free file hosting by FileAve.com Benedict Cumberbatch performs Candle In the Wind in the style of Alan Rickman. Happy New Year, 2011!

There goes a man who’s won his spurs in battle The butcher, he. And all the others, cattle. The cocky sod! No decent place lets him in. Who ...

Placard from the Sane or Not? offshoot of the Sanity/Fear Rally . I keep reading " serious " writers penning mainly humorless thum...

I was notified just now that Ed Reardon was featured on BBC Radio 4 last week. An Audience with Ed Reardon is available for replay for a...

[Updated with full text of letter, below.] RL Stevenson scratched it in ink on paper in 1888 in a letter, presumably not for publication. I...

Michael Penn. Sounds like the coming fortnight to me.

We at Riffle are considering a relaunch. Logo redesign (actually, merely design) by Crap Logo . Crap Logo is recommended: It's free, ...

Music Minus One has been around for decades as an aid to music practice. A sound recording is provided of accompaniment, without the solo, ...

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The website Awful Library Books points us to just what the title indicates. For example: Rules to Be Cool from 2001, which I'm sure r...

Le Febve de Vivy Crest of the Le Febve de Vivy family , about which I know little other than they are Swiss and Belgian and like cute carto...

[Post updated-- scroll down for more info.] This is a scan of an 1844 printed poster advertising a performance by a traveling mesmeri...

Titus Oates , with a name that sounds like a country singer's, was a scoundrel. He fabricated the Popish Plot -- which led to the execu...

Turnip Strength Tester , a Soviet arcade game where one attempts to pull a stand-in for a turnip from a stand-in for the ground. Available ...

While going through the belongings in an old house, I found a small booklet of fragile yellowed paper. Wehman Bros' Vaudeville Gags and ...

One of the excellent images from a fine collection of New York photos from the seventies and eighties. Found thanks to Roy Edroso, who wrot...