poland has hiared laddy gargar to be its creative dirrector! itl be like teh meiji resteration but with nekikid poeple in giant hats! holy crap!

u know waht mencken siad about politicians: "...individuals who are not only not superior to the general, but plainly and depressingly inferior, both in common sense and in common decency". BZZZT! WORNGGG!!!1!

Almost a year to the day since Polaroid said it was signing on Lady Gaga as its creative director, the popular singer unveiled on Thursday the fruits of her labor

Labels: International Relations, Leopold II of Belgium, meaningless trivia, The Grandeur that Was Greece

Via Futility Closet, Oedipus Rex, expressed in licence plates:

ONCEPON ATIME LONG AGO IN THEBES IMKING. OEDIPUS DAKING. LVMYMRS. LVMYKIDS. THEBENS THINK OEDDY ISCOOL. NOPROBS.

OKAY MAYBE THEREZZ 1LTL1. MOTHER WHERERU? WHEREAT MYDAD? NOCALLZ NEVER. HAVENOT ACLUE. INMYMND IWNDER WHOAMI? IMUST FINDEM.

JO MYWIFE GOES, "OED DON'T USEE? WERHAPPI NOW LETITB." IGO, "NOWAY. IAMBOSS. DONTU TELLME MYLIFE. INEED MYMOM. II WILLL FINDHER. FIND BOTHOF THEM."

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The ending is really weird. Sick people, those Greeks. READ IT, DAMN YOU! READ IT!

P.S.

The cockroaches have eaten my shirt.

Labels: literature, The Grandeur that Was Greece