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The Skwib

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The Skwib -- Mark A. Rayner's irregular and explosive weblog, a daily sputtering of satire, humor, comedy, and odd, odd fiction...

Added on: Jul 30th, 2008
Country: Canada
Language: English

Author: Mark A. Rayner
Listed in: Humor Satirical News
Tags: humor humour satire satirical ask general kang the lost powerpoint slides

Recent Posts

The worst toilet in Switzerland

Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 09:01 in but is it art?, monkeys!

Having recently watched Trainspotting, I was struck by how funny (and then disgusting) the “worst toilet in Scotland” scene was. So, that toilet wins for nasty. I think we have to give the prize for frightening to this toilet hanging o...
Ask General Kang: Do you enjoy daylight savings time?

Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 07:29 in Delusions, daylight savings time, monkeys!, fall back, ask general kang, control time and space

Yes, of course. There’s nothing I enjoy more than having to reset my body’s circadian rhythms because of your human delusion that you control things. Most of you can barely operate your own crude technologies properly (put up your hands...
The Button

Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 05:21 in but is it art?, monkeys!

An interesting update on the controversial Milgram experiment, but instead of an authority figure, we have one million dollars. And instead of an actor pretending to be shocked, we have nameless, distant, hypothetical dead people: The Button –...
Webmonkee creates book trailer for Marvellous Hairy

Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 08:26 in but is it art?, monkeys!, skwibby fiction

On the off-chance you didn’t catch this on my author’s page, you should check out the video Webmonkees created for Marvellous Hairy: Practical Applications of the Infinite Monkey Theorem: Click here to view the embedded video. If the embe...
Ubiquity Twelve and the Follicle Twins

Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 05:09 in but is it art?, toulouse le grandfig

Ubiquity Twelve was having a bad trip. His phrenologist had told him not to drop acid, but the consummate rebel wouldn’t listen. “Mr. Twelve, with your malformed cranium and its occlusions, it is just not safe for you to ingest psychotrop...
Alternate History Fridays: Remember, Remember the Fifth of November

Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 08:30 in skwibby fiction, hinky history

Thomas Cadwell watched as the children danced around the bonfire, singing: A penny loaf to feed the Pope. A farthing o’ cheese to choke him. A pint of beer to rinse it down. A fagot of sticks to burn him. He marked the fifth of November ̵...