While Boxing Day is now known as a simply another day to give gifts, it originally served a much more desperate need.

History books will tell you that this holiday was first celebrated over 800 years ago, but that’s one of the details which was fudged in order to forget the past (see Ring Around the Rosie for another example). Continue reading “The Origins of Boxing Day” →

Are Sarah and Meela really that powerful?

Join a group with people who are faster than you but also gullible. When you trip them and leave them for the zombies, they won’t see it coming.

A lot of electrons have been slayed over the past year to cover one Silicon Valley millionaire’s quest to split California in 6, but I can’t see that any attention has been paid to what would happen next. Continue reading “What to do with Six Californias? a Proposal” →

It was down-sized.

I once had an idea to combine a cross country exercise park with a catch your own dinner park, but I couldn’t get it to work.

While I could find any number of people to sign up for the exercise park, I had real trouble in finding enough cannibals who wanted to catch their own dinner.

 

G’day!

You have reached the time traveler’s assistance hotline. Please listen carefully, as our temporal situation may have changed. Continue reading “Time Traveler’s Assistance Hotline” →

They taste like chicken.