World Enough and Time

The Canterbury Tales

By Geoffrey Chaucer

Ultra-Condensed by Brandon Sumner

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a voyage long,
Of pilgrims headed 'cross the land,
Nine and twenty strong.

The Knight was a most distinguished man,
The Skipper brave and sure,
The Doctor had a love for gold,
The Franklin was a whore.
The Franklin was a whore.

The travellers, they found an inn,
The Tabard was its name;
If not for the segues of the Host,
The story would be lame.
The story would be lame.

The pilgrims set out on their course,
St. Christopher they sought;
With the Wife of Bath,
The Miller too,
The Summoner,
And the Reeve,
The Pardoner, and the rest,
To Canterbury they go!

THE END

Made me laugh.

From Book-A-Minute Classics.

Okay, I've seen versions of this one before, but this one tickled me.

WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?

Plato: For the greater good.

Karl Marx: It was a ( historical inevitability. )

And I will add:

Eddie Izzard: To play his jazz trumpet.

But no one who hasn't seen Stripped will get it.

This 'Porn for Women' xkcd strip amused me. I got it courtesy of jhava.

If I'm going to fantasize about sexy men, I'm not going to fantasize about them doing housework. Just... not.

Like the Doctor, I don't do 'domestic'.

This picture struck me as very funny.

Tonight's episode of Castle, "The Double Down", was fun: partly for the plot and its puzzle aspect, partly because of the bet between Castle and the cops about which would win the case first. Sheila and I were discussing the show on the phone, agreeing that it reminds us of the kind of romantic comedy mysteries that haven't been around for a while - shows like Remington Steele and Moonlighting.

Which reminds me that in Books on Beechwood yesterday I saw Richard Castle's book Heat Wave for sale. How many books get written by a fictional character? It had Nathan Fillion's photo on the back - and note the bland, straight-faced bio of Castle offered on Amazon:

Richard Castle is the author of numerous bestsellers, including the critically acclaimed Derrick Storm series. His first novel, In a Hail of Bullets, published while he was still in college, received the Nom DePlume Society's prestigious Tom Straw Award for Mystery Literature. Castle currently lives in Manhattan with his daughter and mother, both of whom infuse his life with humor and inspiration.

And so they do.

I'm loving this.

When I first saw this, it was a Torchwood joke. I thought it was hilarious at the time. Now it's a Canadian politics reference and it is even funnier, on several levels. Sent to me by maaseru.

I don't generally like macros, but I thought this one, sent to me by sparklebutch, was extremely funny.

I would, though.