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Political one-liners

Yesterday I linked to a couple of Lindsey Graham's jokes at celebratory dinner ("Fecal compounds", 3/5/2016). But the journalists and politicians who spoke at last night's annual Gridiron Club dinner...

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A perfectly spherical politician

… radiating stupidity isotropically.  Today's SMBC presents a variation on the traditional "perfectly spherical cow" joke:

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Pedantic about biscuit conditionals

Today's xkcd: Mouseover title: "'If you're done being pedantic, we should get dinner.' 'You did it again!' 'No, I didn't.'" These are known in the trade as "relevance conditionals" (or, more...

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Pinyin for Singlish

A correspondent from Singapore saw the following photograph in his Facebook feed: This is a Singapore language test which calls for the student to write in Hanyu Pinyin the name of the animal depicted...

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