Wednesday, June 13, 2012

You can't fool owls

It's multiple-choice time again! This is:

(1) The Riddled entry for the next "World of Wearable Arts" fashion show. I thought we were onto a winner with the TV-aerial accessory, but evidently our competitors are all adopting the same idea. There is a security leak somewhere in our organisation.

(2) A sneak preview of the Riddled Amateur Dramatic Society adaptation of Ragnar's Saga. I was careful in the phone-call to the Costumes Department to specify that the main character is "Ragnar Hairy-Breeks" but they still fecked it up.

"You can't go out looking like that!" exclaimed Ragnar when he saw what his sons Ivar the Boneless and Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye were proposing to wear. Sodding Goths.

(3) A Renaissance public-health poster warning against Bubonic Plague. The owl is someone's idea of a joke.

(4) All of the above.

13 comments:

fish said...

This is a very early mockup of the poster for "Pink Flamingos."

Pupienus Maximus said...

I can rule out #1 as that seems to be a Yagi antenna. I have no doubt you would go for a log-periodic.

Pupienus Maximus said...

Nice calves though!

Substance McGravitas said...

The Riddled entry for the next "World of Wearable Arts" fashion show.

Get on the stick! There are at least 36 more designs out there.

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

I was careful in the phone-call to the Costumes Department to specify that the main character is "Ragnar Hairy-Breeks" but they still fecked it up.

If they send you chaps by mistake, just rename the character "Ragnar Hairy-Cheeks".

mikey said...

So I told my mom.

"Mom?"

"What is it? I'm drinkging...er, ironing here."

"I wanna be an actor".

"No you don't, honey. They're all perverts. Fatty Arbuckle killed that girl with his wang, fer crissakes."

She was right. This dood here, he's just foul debauchery in a bag with roses. He keeps his junk in a pair of underpants that look like a skull, and he wears a bunch of bunnies to nibble at his nutsack. Can you see how WEIRD that is? But then he stopped, and stood athwart a dog taking a shit on a head of lettuce yelling "POOP"!!

My mom was drunk...er, RIGHT....

Smut Clyde said...

He keeps his junk in a pair of underpants that look like a skull

It's a *bunny* skull, mikey. Some people took Donnie Darko WAY TOO SERIOUSLY.

Smut Clyde said...

The Other Wiki has an entertaining selection of theories for how Ivar the Boneless acquired his name, which someone should blog about some time.

Also -- recent scholarship has revealed that rather than there being only three Scandiwegian jokes, there is in fact a fourth one, dating back to Viking humour:

Q: What is a boneless thing which rises in a woman's hands?
A: Dough.

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

Commander Bunnypants says, "I will have your respect, or there be hell to pay!"

P.S. "As some enigmatic eagle-owls remain essentially unstudied and others – e.g. Verreaux's Eagle-Owl – are of unresolved relationships, more research is needed.">

So often the case.
~

ckc (not kc) said...

...google translate explains "The flute sounds sweet bird, while beguiled avceps", which is, of course, what I thought as soon as I saw that it was #37.

Smut Clyde said...

The flute sounds sweet bird

So "fistula" = "flute"? Well! I only knew the medical meaning, i.e. a piercing or connection (usually undesired). I have learned something new on the Interfistula today.

M. Bouffant said...

None of the above.

M. Bouffant said...

Fatty Arbuckle killed that girl with his wang, fer crissakes.
Ask Mom, wudnit a Coca-Cola bottle?