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Elsewhere, the builder who had been subcontracted to remodel the stables of the stately home in which Lisa’s wedding was taking place was preparing to tuck into a well-earned packed lunch. Being on the other side of the estate from the wedding party, he was unaware that the ham he had in his sandwiches was roughly the same colour as the centre of the chicken breasts currently being served to the wedding guests and would remain unaware of the events unfolding in the dining hall even as several aunts hurled and retched into the dahlias.

This is fantastic.

I can’t imagine you haven’t seen these by now, but I can’t take that chance, goddammit.  I was sort of hungry the first time I clicked on them, and the resulting mixed emotions were confusing as fuck.

Awww.

National Sleepy Head Day (Finnish: unikeonpäivä) is celebrated in Finland on July 27 every year. Traditionally on this day, the last person in the house (also dubbed as the ‘laziest’) to wake up is woken up using water, either by being thrown into a lake or the sea, or by having water thrown on them.^[1] It is based on the story of the Saints of Ephesus who slept in a cave for some 200 years during the Middle Ages whilst hiding from persecution by Decius, the Roman Emperor at the time.^[2]

In the city of Naantali, a Finnish celebrity is chosen every year to be thrown in the sea from the city’s port at 7 a.m. The identity of the sleeper is kept secret until the event. People who are chosen have usually done something to the benefit of the city. Every city mayor has thus far been thrown to the sea at least once, but other sleepers have included the president Tarja Halonen’s husband, Dr Pentti Arajärvi, the CEO of Neste Oil Risto Rinne, along with many writers, artists and politicians. The celebrations continue into the evening in Naantali and include activities for people of every age.

“What is corned beef?” he asked me, and I had to admit that I didn’t know.

He gestured to a big stack of it. “How do I uncorn it?” he asked, looking worried.

“You need regular beef?”

“No,” he replied, “I need a live cow, but I am trying to do this one step at a time.”

Retrospective of early video gaming done entirely in Lego stop-motion.  Really friggin’ cool.

I almost can’t stop playing with this thing long enough to post this.  Y’know how when you translate anything into Japanese and then back again it gets pretty fucked up?  Well, now you don’t have to do it manually.

“Who wants to go for ice cream?” is a pretty good one.  If you want to break the thing beyond recognition, try “weasels ripped my flesh.”

So much fun!

Update:  Who’s Gabugabu? o.O

Also, this.

You’re screaming no no no and all they hear is “who wants cake.”

Some suggest that Christ and Jesus are one and the same—a deity, in fact—but there is no in-fiction canon evidence for this.

I like the insinuation that whatever is true in Transformers canon is also true in theology.