A chuckle at tax time...
The back page of the business section of the Guardian features a op/ed column, often humorous in tone. Last autumn, it featured a very funny piece written by comedian Chris Addison, a fictional response from a bureaucrat in the UK's Inland Revenue Department to a letter he'd sent them. It was fake, but it went around and around this wonderful thing I like to call "the Internet."



Guardian Unlimited Money | Tax | How Jobs & Money fooled the world: "That the fake letter has found so many believers suggests we'd rather prefer it if the Inland Revenue wrote to us in this way. Even the Adam Smith Institute, bastion of right-wing economics, fell for the letter."

The original letter can be found here, and it is very funny. But it is, alas, a fake.
- posted by slaughts @ 12:04 AM

 
Problematic IKEA translations
Despite the universal success of its flat-pack approach to everything, not all product names translate well from the original Scandihoovican. (You'll have to click the link below to get the punchline. via geekpress)

IKEA | home | children's furniture & accessories | children's highchairs, tables & chairs


- posted by slaughts @ 5:22 PM

 
Don't Go, Mojo..!!!!
Holy shit! Mojo says he's gonna retire! Damn... what's wrong with this world!

Mojo Retiring: "'I have nothing more to say,' says Nixon. 'Not only am I empty, but obviously nobody gives a rat's ass about the things I have been saying for twenty years. The masses are just as blinded by the light of stupidity, prudery and the shiny objects of hate.' "


- posted by slaughts @ 12:22 AM

 
The One That Didn't Get Away...
Apparently, my namesake was busted last summer in a town in East Texas. Bummer. At least he showed good taste by trying to steal sound equipment.

Three Arrested In Longview Burglary And Car Chase: "The men allegedly stole heavy sound equipment speakers, then led police on a short car chase, eventually called off by officers in the interest of public safety."


- posted by slaughts @ 2:53 AM