Category: funny

Webcomic artist Shaenon Garrity came across an old Boston Globe article about macabre comic artist Edward Gorey. The first paragraph read:

Edward Gorey watched television for the first time this summer, or so he claims, and in the process the 52-year-old artist became a “Star Trek” fan. He watched the science-fiction program reruns twice a day, five days a week and once on the sixth day, and despite this faithful viewing he has yet to see the TV show’s most famous episode, “The Trouble with Tribbles”, which is about these furry creatures in outer space, or so he says.

Inspired by that paragraph, she created this interpretation of The Trouble with Tribbles in Gorey’s style:

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Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

The banner in the photo, taken in Dublin, reads “WATER IS PRECIOUS LET’S CONSERVE IT”.

This comic gets bonus points for using the word “tessellate” in a down-to-earth, everyday context: the way Subway “sandwich artists” add cheese when making submarine sandwiches:

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Image courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

(This was cross-posted to Global Nerdy.)

I got this picture from my friend Miss Fipi Lele. It was originally titled Alderaan is a proper noun, assho — OPTIMUS! COOL IT WITH THE LUBE!:

Right now, my favourite T-shirt design over at Busted Tees is “Canada: America’s Hat”…

Click the photo to see the web page for the shirt.