Aliens Learn About Humans By Visiting Los Angeles. No one finds them odd in that setting. (via reddit)
They Don’t Read Very Well: A Study of the Reading Comprehension Skills of English Majors at Two Midwestern Universities. A teacher explains the context. (via Metafilter)
Are white South Africans really refugees? A historian who grew up under apartheid explains.
Teaching dogs to whisper. (via Everlasting Blort)
The Dumbest Sci-Fi Movie Ever Remains An Accidental Camp Classic. Why you might want to watch Battlefield Earth for a few minutes.
What Exactly Is Miracle Whip? It’s not mayo, it’s an “alternative mayo dressing.”
This Week was the 90th Anniversary of the First Full-Length Werewolf Movie.
It's Interesting How the Past Can Make You Think About the Present. (via kottke)
Pigeon Whistles: A Defining Sound of Old Beijing. (via Present & Correct)
5 comments:
Thank you for scouring the interwebs to bring us entertainment, Miss C- hope you have a great weekend!
And you as well!
So L. Ron Hubbard, John Travolta, and a duck walk into a bar. No, wait, it gets better. . .
If you google Scientology jokes, Tom Cruise's picture comes up.
Happy Friday Miss C!
Happy Friday, gwdMaine!
Dickens is an example of writing that's easy to read because it's English, and hard to understand because Dickens is so clever. I read the opening paragraph of Bleak House & had to look up Michaelmas term, Lord Chancellor, and Lincoln's Inn Hall, and that was just in the first couple of lines. Very interesting link.
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