I always wondered if the Oracle ENJOYED being an irony machine. Based on this, I’d say yes.
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Irony Alert! Alcohol protects your brain from head injuries
In the annals of unintended consequences, few are as baffling as this new finding that suggests alcohol helps protect the brain from head injuries.
A study of 38,000 people with noggin’ trauma discovered that for every 100 people who died when sober, only 88 died when they had a little liquor in their limbic system.
According to Lead researcher Ali Salim of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles: “We need a better understanding of the exact mechanism, the appropriate dose and specific timing of treatment before we can embark on clinical trials.”
Woo! Sign me up! Free booze.
Oh wait, I’ll probably have to get whacked on the head too, won’t I?
Ah, it’s just another Saturday night down at the pub.
Lest we get too excited about all this, you should know Salim also warns us that alcohol actually causes half of all head injuries. We shall call this the Irony Factor.
Alltop and humor-blogs.com enjoy a little skull play with their suds. You can read the less goofy coverage at the New Scientist.
Carnival of Satire (#91)
Welcome to the first Carnival of Satire for 2008, the Light-Year of the Alien. Basically, the blogosphere is like Manhattan in the Men in Black movies. Sure, we pretend that we’re normal people, but bloggers everywhere are freaks, exhibitionists, and certainly extraterrestrial in nature. Sometimes, we’re even satirical.
Daniel Brenton blows the lid off Operation Majestic Twelve in the second episode of The Round Files: The George W. Bush MJ-12 Briefing
David Mills makes good use of his audio editing software and presents this anti-Semitic rant from Ann Coulter. (I mean, come on, for sure she’s an alien.)
Madeleine Begun Kane believes there is an alien conspiracy in Arkansas, and she Won’t Graciously Submit To Mike Huckabee.
Brent Diggs and the good people at Ominous Comma Industries have a new product for us meta-galactic mutants looking for love, promising: Copious Comments – Guaranteed.
Thomas K presents MUTE Politics. Surely there’s an Earth drinking game somewhere in here?
Sammy Benoit is channeling some kind of Ambrose Bierce-like ET in this Middle East Peace RAW SEX TALK.
gameguy presents the news that Cheney’s Biscuits Are Burning.
Usiku presents an alien’s perspective on Understanding Underwriting
Keith_R tackles the surreal (off-world) language of the business world in: The Top 12 Phrases I Hate in 2007.
And while the jet warms up, Dan Johnson figures that Gift Cards are Ruining The Holidays and has reasons why. (Just replace the word “gas” with the word “space” in this post, and you’ll see he’s an alien too.)
And that’s it for the alien edition! If you have some satire to share, please consider submitting next time. Thanks to these fine folks for helping us with webby-stuff: the Blog Carnival for their form; and the listings at the Ubercarnival, the Blog Carnival, and the good denizens of Planet Humor-Blogs too. A special thanks to Garrette for his toothy alien.
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Carnival of Satire (#88)
Welcome to the gobbler version of the Carnival of Satire. We didn’t receive many submissions this week, so we have stuffed this issue with a mix of the few submitted bits of satire, parody from the nuts on our blogroll and a few tasty nuggets of irony from bloggers at humor blogs.
We begin with this savory piece by the Electric Writer about the dangers of writing while drinking copious amounts of coffee. By the way, beer can also cause one to be toilet enraged.
If you haven’t graced your palette with some of the exotic fare at Ration Reality, then you are in for a treat, especially if you also think that Shirley Temple is Creepy.
Over at Point Five, they were shocked — shocked — to discover a dude enjoying a chick flick, but this is just a sign of the crisis of gynemovia sweeping North America.
And if you needed further proof of this crisis, look no farther than Hurty Elbow, who blows the lid off Phireblanks, the male contraceptive.
Mental Mosaic is convinced that James Watson has had a big scoop of jungle fever.
The Prezel has breaking news about the Hollywood Writers’ strike that you should not miss on this day of thanks.
This demonstration of a Venn Diagram, by Mr. Sun, while not holiday-related, is quite helpful.
And while on the topic of diagrams, you may find the wedgie-vs-fashion Venn at the brilliant blog, Indexed, a pinch.
What are those kids up to? Have they found makeup?
Blog D’Ellison has a satirical tour of art history with this 100-word take on Dali’s “The Persistence of Memory”.
And finally, we hope you have a much less harrowing feast than these folks: Dinner Guests Survive Unsolicited Tour of House.
And that’s it for the gobbler edition! If you have some satire to share, please consider submitting to the next edition. Thanks to these fine folks for helping us with webby-stuff: the Blog Carnival for their form; and the listings at the Ubercarnival, and at the Blog Carnival too.