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Wednesday, 17 March, 2004 by Dion Nicolaas
                    
                    
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j "How can I not believe in anything if I don't even have a head not to believe with?"
                    
                    
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Someone shouts "Off with his head!"
                    
                    
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j "How can I come up with a smart punchline if I don't even have a head?"


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drachefly April 12, 2005 23:41
First comment: 12 April, 2005 9 comments written
If he sat on the throneMethought I saw the footsteps of a throne
Which mists and vapours from mine eyes did shroud--
Nor view of who might sit thereon allowed;
But all the steps and ground about were strown
With sights the ruefullest that flesh and bone
Ever put on; a miserable crowd,
Sick, hale, old, young, who cried before that cloud,
"Thou art our king,
O Death! to thee we groan."
Those steps I clomb; the mists before me gave
Smooth way; and I beheld the face of one
Sleeping alone within a mossy cave,
With her face up to heaven; that seemed to have
Pleasing remembrance of a thought foregone;
A lovely Beauty in a summer grave!
        [ Sonnet, by William Wordsworth ]

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, would that make him a pack of royal jelly"'Royal Jelly,'" he read aloud, "'must be a substance of
tremendous nourishing power, for on this diet alone, the
honey-bee larva increases in weight fifteen hundred times in
five days!'"

"How much?"

"Fifteen hundred times, Mabel. And you know what that means
if you put it in terms of a human being? It means," he said,
lowering his voice, leaning forward, fixing her with those
small pale eyes, "it means that in five days a baby weighing
seven and a half pounds to start off with would increase in
weight to five tons!"
        [ Royal Jelly, by Roald Dahl ]

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Fathead April 4, 2006 00:33
First comment: 1 April, 2006 1136 comments written
So there is such a thing as "royal jelly"'Royal Jelly,'" he read aloud, "'must be a substance of
tremendous nourishing power, for on this diet alone, the
honey-bee larva increases in weight fifteen hundred times in
five days!'"

"How much?"

"Fifteen hundred times, Mabel. And you know what that means
if you put it in terms of a human being? It means," he said,
lowering his voice, leaning forward, fixing her with those
small pale eyes, "it means that in five days a baby weighing
seven and a half pounds to start off with would increase in
weight to five tons!"
        [ Royal Jelly, by Roald Dahl ]

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." But I've never even seen it before.

Incidentally, I thought that Dion and Dudley wereIn 1573, the Parliament of Dole published a decree, permitting
the inhabitants of the Franche-Comte to pursue and kill a
were-wolf or loup-garou, which infested that province,
"notwithstanding the existing laws concerning the chase."
The people were empowered to "assemble with javelins,
halberds, pikes, arquebuses and clubs, to hunt and pursue the
said were-wolf in all places where they could find it, and to
take, burn, and kill it, without incurring any fine or other
penalty." The hunt seems to have been successful, if we may
judge from the fact that the same tribunal in the following
year condemned to be burned a man named Giles Garnier, who
ran on all fours in the forest and fields and devoured little
children, "even on Friday." The poor lycanthrope, it appears,
had as slight respect for ecclesiastical feasts as the French
pig, which was not restrained by any feeling of piety from
eating infants on a fast day.
        [ The History of Vampires, by Dudley Wright ]

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two different people?

P.S. Someone please disable the popup on "wereIn 1573, the Parliament of Dole published a decree, permitting
the inhabitants of the Franche-Comte to pursue and kill a
were-wolf or loup-garou, which infested that province,
"notwithstanding the existing laws concerning the chase."
The people were empowered to "assemble with javelins,
halberds, pikes, arquebuses and clubs, to hunt and pursue the
said were-wolf in all places where they could find it, and to
take, burn, and kill it, without incurring any fine or other
penalty." The hunt seems to have been successful, if we may
judge from the fact that the same tribunal in the following
year condemned to be burned a man named Giles Garnier, who
ran on all fours in the forest and fields and devoured little
children, "even on Friday." The poor lycanthrope, it appears,
had as slight respect for ecclesiastical feasts as the French
pig, which was not restrained by any feeling of piety from
eating infants on a fast day.
        [ The History of Vampires, by Dudley Wright ]

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" when it's pronounced "whirr" and not "where" or "wear"; thanks.
Grey Knight April 17, 2006 04:26
First comment: 20 October, 2005 116 comments written
I'm beginning to suspect there's a reason you're known as "Fathead"...
Fathead July 27, 2006 23:01
First comment: 1 April, 2006 1136 comments written
Known? I ain't known. And there was a "Meathead" on the Weakest Link, and he rocked!
Grognor April 4, 2007 21:52
First comment: 4 April, 2007 1161 comments written
I don't know. How can you come up with a smart punchline without a head? I wouldn't know.
HK June 1, 2007 05:50
First comment: 1 June, 2007 309 comments written
Very funny.
Zarquil September 27, 2008 06:35
First comment: 26 September, 2008 54 comments written
If I only had a.. What are those things called again?

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