‘It’s Friday, and I’m heading off to a scifi con, and desperately trying to avoid work, so I’m gonna post about some silly news today.
1) Some cops in the UK raided a guy’s house, and found…a BatLeth. Yes, the Klingon weapon that is actually cool and a bit frightening. It was real, with a metal blade and everything. KePLAH.
2) You may have heard of the NunBun, a muffin with the likeness of Mother Teresa in it? It’s yet another example of dumb religious pareidolia. Anyway, it was on display at a coffeeshop (bizarrely, owned by a Jewish guy) when it was stolen. Well, the perp evidently sent the owner a picture of the purloined pastry in a letter. The only thing in the letter besides the picture were the words– and I love this– "Guess where?". There is a $5000 reward for the bun, et or alive.
3) The face of an alien has been seen in a duck’s X-ray. Yeah, more pareidolia, but I think the most interesting aspect of this is that someone took an X-ray of a duck’s gizzard.
Must be a slow news day.’
May 26th, 2006 at 2:50 pm
So….that’s what bird flu looks like in an x-ray? Devious.
May 26th, 2006 at 3:00 pm
Their testicles, for instance, grow to three times the size of their brains, but they have never been known to sprout an alien head, she said.
That sentence alone makes the article worth reading…
May 26th, 2006 at 4:07 pm
ummm…. before you get to that con, you’d better learn how to spell qapla’ …
May 26th, 2006 at 4:07 pm
ummm…. before you get to that con, you’d better learn how to spell Qapla’ …
May 26th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
and fix the comment problem that gives one a hideous error message and yet still posts the comment!
May 26th, 2006 at 4:15 pm
Ya outlaw the Klingon weapons and only Klingons will have weapons…. or something like that.
jbs
May 26th, 2006 at 5:52 pm
The one about the bat’leth stands out.
A piece of ‘Trek’ weaponary that actually works (read in the artilce it could behead a man)! Who’d have thought?
May 26th, 2006 at 7:07 pm
It figures that an E.T. would show up in that duck. It was a drake, and Drake has been trying to contact aliens for years.
May 26th, 2006 at 7:39 pm
Whenever someone pulls a BatLeth on me, I just say “That’s not a knife” [pull out my Leatherman (Charge TI)] “That’s a knife”.
May 27th, 2006 at 1:05 am
The Bat’Leth was designed in conjunction with a couple of martial artists, but really it’s not hugely difficult to imagine a strange bladed weapon which has enough swing on it to take a head off.
But whoa… why would anybody want to make a real sharp one? Bit worrying, that.
Final point: The Sun skimped on their research as usual, that picture of Worf with the Bat’Leth is from an episode of Deep Space Nine, not a movie. You all knew that I’m sure.
May 27th, 2006 at 1:32 am
Bat’Leths don’t kill people… Klingons kill people. I don’t agree with the UK disarming its citizens.
That must have been one ugly wizened muffin, maybe it had prunes which Mother Teresa is commonly confused with.
The skull has too many vertebrate characteristics to possibly be alien. Really no mystery, gizzards are full of rocks they are the avian teeth.
May 27th, 2006 at 2:15 am
So… any sharp pieces of metal, like scrap metal from fixing a garden shed (I realize that’s normally thin steel or aluminum sheeting, but still!) is now illegal to own in the UK? Glad I live in Canada, where I can own a random object like a 12″ wide, 1″ thick and 3″ tall knife from a 36″ wood chipper (the knife was a souvenir from a job I rather enjoyed but had to give up thanks to government silliness in BC at the time).
Look out, Rob’s got a woodchipper knife!
May 27th, 2006 at 5:21 am
Ain’t that just like a geek… brings a batleth to a gun fight (Sean Connery – The Untouchables)
May 27th, 2006 at 7:56 am
Gives new meaning to “Drake Equation”!
May 28th, 2006 at 6:36 pm
So I’m reading that article on UK knife crime, and it reads like an article from The Onion parodying gun control. What’s up with that?
May 30th, 2006 at 4:24 am
This is simple. Sometimes life is so crazy that even Onion can’t beat it.
May 30th, 2006 at 11:12 am
That’s not an alien, it’s… it’s Mother Theresa! The bun’s been found!