Real-Life Weirdness

[Anaraxes]

Actual headline seen yesterday in a local paper:

"Knights Templar leader killed in Mexico -- again"

This of course actually refers to a drug cartel and a previous shootout where a body wasn't found. But wouldn't it be more interesting if it were the historical Templars and their undead leader mixed with Aztec survivors and their ancient rituals?

[thorr-kan]

Originally Posted by William

Did ancient Minoans trade copper with the Great Lakes? Are millions of pounds of copper "missing" from ancient American Indian mines around the Great Lakes? Is the tablet that was revealed in Newberry, Michigan in 1896 really a sample of Cypriot writing from centuries B.C.?

Newberry used to be host to a mental health facility for a reason...

[Daigoro]

Police use near Mission:Impossible level of fakery to get a killer's confession.
http://www.smh.com.au/queensland/ins...314-34qi3.html

[Luke Bunyip]

Originally Posted by Daigoro

Police use near Mission:Impossible level of fakery to get a killer's confession.
http://www.smh.com.au/queensland/ins...314-34qi3.html

Nah. A lot of that would be second nature to them. They are, after all, the inheritors of a culture started by the Rum Corps.

[Daigoro]

Who knows, if Dracula was still alive, maybe he would run a milk bar.
http://z3291822.wordpress.com/2011/0...%99s-treasure/

[Anaraxes]

Originally Posted by Daigoro

Who knows, if Dracula was still alive, maybe he would run a milk bar.

Also a good place to sit with your droogs while trying to make up your rassoodocks what do to with the evening. It can sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultraviolence.

[vicky_molokh]

We might see Russian military Zeppelins after all!
http://translate.google.com/translat...Doff%26hl%3Den
http://www.janes.com/article/35324/r...litary-patrols

On a less funny note, the Reds are capturing our war-dops.

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by Anaraxes

Also a good place to sit with your droogs while trying to make up your rassoodocks what do to with the evening. It can sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultraviolence.

The first time I read this, I thought one of us was having a stroke.

(I never read the book, or saw the movie, A Clockwork Orange.)

[vicky_molokh]

Darth Vader for president!

[Anaraxes]

Harvard has three books bound in human flesh -- Roman poetry, French philosophy, and (perhaps most fittingly) medieval Spanish law. Apparently "anthropodermic bibliopegy" wasn't all that uncommon.