Posts Tagged as ‘just for fun’
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Do You Have a G.O.D. Complex?
That is, do you suffer from Grammar Obsessive Disorder?
Saturday, October 3, 2009
The Dan Brown Sequel Generator
Plug in a city and a sect, and Slate’s computer will do the rest.
An ancient code in the monuments of Los Angeles.
A murderous cult determined to protect it.
A desperate race to uncover the Scientologists’ darkest secret.
The Forgotten Tomb
When world-famous Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to the Chateau Marmont to analyze a mysterious geometric form—etched [...]
Saturday, August 29, 2009
The Onion Reports, ‘Underfunded Schools Forced to Cut Past Tense From Language Programs’
Faced with ongoing budget crises, underfunded schools nationwide are increasingly left with no option but to cut the past tense—a grammatical construction traditionally used to relate all actions and states that have transpired at an earlier point in time—from their standard English and language arts programs.
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Saturday, August 1, 2009
In Writer Heaven
A writer died and was given the option of going to heaven or hell.
She decided to check out each place first. As the writer descended into the fiery pits, she saw row upon row of writers chained to their desks in a steaming sweatshop. As they worked, they were repeatedly whipped with thorny lashes.
“Oh my,” said the writer. [...]


