gaming for peace

... Pong. This was the first commercially available video game; it featured two bats, a square ball and lots of irritating noises, it came along in 1972 and since then the western world has, for the most part, been at peace. We can therefore conclude that Pong and other games of its ilk ended the cold war because, for the first time in history, leaders had something better to do than rush about threatening to bash one another’s heads in.

Jeremy Clarkson, The world will never be safe until Scrabble is banned in The Sunday Times

new tolkien book

it's called The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún, bbut that's not the point. in the news blurb, i read

The previously unpublished work was written while Tolkien was professor of Anglo-Saxon

as "the work was written by Tolkien in Anglo-Saxon", which would reilly have bean something. woudln't it? or would you have preefered elvish?

irony is win

unlike americans, the british are required by courts to understand irony.

arrest

limerick definition -- limeition? -- by Kalleh.

Her heartbeat has stopped — an arrest!
Breathe for her! Pound on her chest!
Her eyes begin fluttering,
And she begins muttering,
"Stop it! You're fondling my breast!"

from oedilf, where they just keep coming!