On the Beat

I was browsing XKCD - because I could - when I saw this...

Paths

http://xkcd.com/85/

I do this...

Both these were seen on What's With That!:

A bloke walks into a Glasgow library and says to the prim librarian,

'Excuse me Miss, dey ye hiv ony books on suicide?'

To which she stops doing her tasks, looks at him over the top of her
glasses and says,

'Fook off, ye'll no bring it back!'

( Jazz porn behind the cut... )

I haven't posted my own Atheist bus slogans, because none of the ones I came up with were as funny as those I have seen posted elsewhere.

Here are a couple I saw today from wavydavy, which you might not have seen, and raised a smile...





He has some others here.

Apparently this was a real traffic sign which had been hacked into. The text accompanying the YouTube posting says:

Transportation officials in Texas are scrambling to prevent hackers from changing messages on digital road signs after one sign in Austin was altered to read, "Zombies Ahead." Chris Lippincott, director of media relations for the Texas Department of Transportation, confirmed that a portable traffic sign at Lamar Boulevard and West 15th Street, near the University of Texas at Austin, was hacked into during the early hours of Jan. 19.

(via Arbroath.)

No record of mosquitoes, zombie or otherwise.

A post on Donald Clark's blog pointed me to this post on Business Pundit: After the Crisis: a parody of fifteen corporate logos.

Enjoy!

(via Arbroath)

Apparently, yesterday was Jane Austen's birthday, and to celebrate, lizziebelle linked to this site representing Pride & Prejudice as envisaged on Facebook....

From today's Observer (unfortunately it isn't on their website... p25 of the news section) [Edit: abrinsky points out they have now posted it on the website: and the URL-tag uses the phrase "political correctness"... ;) ]:

Christmas Is Axed In Oxford

Council leaders in Oxford have decided to ban the word Christmas from this year's festive celebrations to make them more "inclusive". But the decision to rename the series of events the "Winter Light Festival" have been cticised by religious leaders and locals said it was "ludicrous".

Sabir Hussain Mirza, chairman of the Muslim Council of Oxford, said: "This is the one occasion which everyone looks forward to in the year... I'm angry and very, very disappointed. CHristmas is special and we shouldn't ignore it... Christmas is part of being British."

Rabbi Eli Bracknell said: "It's important to maintain a traditional British Christmas..."

What amused me most is that the Observer didn't print any comments from any Christian spokespeople!