Category Archives: Silliness

Dogsplaining #4

Heidi the Golden Retriever explains the slight excess in the expected number of gamma rays in the Higgs experiments, using only her eyebrows.

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On Biological Modelling

No. 94. Coccoliths. With apologies to rpg. But why should cell biologists have all the fun?

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It Has Not Escaped Our Notice #94

In an anguished missive accompanying this picture, Professor Trellis of North Wales writes: Have you noticed how existential DIY megamarts get on Bank Holiday weekends? All I wanted to do was get a new hasp for the shed door, and … Continue reading

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The Maison Des Girrafes Caption Competition #51

Suggestions welcome for suitably surreal titles for this bizarre installation recently discovered at the Maison Des Girrafes. You know the sort of thing: things like Oh Calcutta! Calcutta! or The Ghost Of Professor Trellis of North Wales, Which Can Also … Continue reading

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Dogsplaining #6

Heidi the Golden Retriever explains the Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture using only her eyebrows.

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T*ts

There’s nothing like a picture of a comely young woman in her underwear to perk up one’s sagging spirits of an evening, but when I was alerted to the following story on the FB page of my friend Ms L. … Continue reading

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Plagues

Now, bear with me, I shan’t be long. You see, the mispoche are coming round later and I’ll have to get started slow-cooking a large leg of lamb for our seder. I’ll be leading it, which means that I’ll be … Continue reading

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Age

Time was when I could drink eight pints of Tetleys and several double vodkas and turn up, more or less intact, for a 9-o’clock biochemistry lecture. But those days are gone. Yesterday, while I took Mrs Crox and the younger … Continue reading

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It Has Not Escaped Our Notice #5150

I am pleased to regurgitate this signage offered to this column by our North of England Correspondent Mr J. S. of Lancashire. The sign is to be found at the entrance to the car park at his local police station. … Continue reading

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Opus D

Well, there was I thinking, so I was, that this post will be the 500th entry in this blog as presently incarcerated, and, notwithstanding inasmuch as which such an artificial anniversary will be manna from heaven to fans of base … Continue reading

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