Amusements: March 2004 Archives

Bizarre Attractive Force Found In Mayonnaise

When you register for American Airlines' frequent-flier program, they give you a choice of about 200 salutations, including "Admiral" and "Vice President" and titles of nobility. I could not resist -- no longer am I a mere commoner. As you can see by this envelope, I am...

What was Saint Patrick of Ireland's ethnic background? (No fair using Google to answer.)

WINNER: Father Jeffrey Keyes was quick to point out that St. Patrick was born in Britain, and that St. Patrick was a Roman citizen. He was not ethnically Irish. He only ended up in Ireland because the kind, gentle folk of that land kidnapped and enslaved him.

Look at Thoroughly Modern Mary, a parody-blog by the talented Jeff Miller. Dom says he dosen't know which is scarier, TMM or Mr. Miller's other parody-blog, Moloch Now, and neither do I. I did think TMM was uproarously funny, though, probably because of our own sometime visitor, Sr. Nouveau Mary.

Allen the accountant (plug) sent this St. Louis Jesuits spoof over the transom:

Though the markets may fall and the bonds turn to dust
Yet the standard of gold shall last
As a treasure to all who trust not the bank
Sing the praise and the glory of gold.

Kind of cool to have another planetoid around.

It's a place where these guys can go!

Scrappleface reports: 9th Circuit overturns Iraqi Constitution.