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Jeeves & Wooster: admittedly I’ve never read the Wodehouse text, but rather seen the exemplarary TV series starring Hugh Laurie & Stephen Fry.  Still that’s a suitable grounding for extrapolating & visualising the scene here in “What if Bertie Wooster, rather than being a mere layabout, was also Batman?“.

“Enough talk about that, Jeeves. I think I’ve made it quite clear that the cape represents my bat-wings, for I am a child of the night, and so forth.”
“Could not some other form of abstraction suffice, sir?”
“Well, without the wings, I’m hardly a bat, am I? I’m sort of a black badger.”
“I understand badgers can be quite nasty in a pinch.”
“Yes, but it’s not like a great roaring badger came smashing through my window at Brinkley, is it? It was a bat. That’s an omen, Jeeves. Can’t mess about with omens, that’s bad luck.”
“Sir, a bat did not crash through your window either. You dreamt it.”
“Dream omens are still omens.”
“I concede the point.”
“Thank you, Jeeves. By the way, this is really cracking nosh.”
“I do my best, sir.”

[excellent spot there by thornae]

Footage from 2009’s Coopers Hill Cheese Rolling race in Gloucestershire.  Why on earth anybody would do this is a complete mystery.

First prize is winning the cheese.

Second prize is £5.

[forwarded in by Rohan, aged 8]

The iPhone’s electrostatic screen is excellent for putting in your pocket and not accidentally having coins or keys push the buttons.  But how to operate it with gloves on in this chilly weather?  In South Korea they’ve turned to the humble sausage:

Apparently snack sausages from the CJ Corporation are electrostatically compatible with the iPhone’s capacitive touchscreen, leading many to use them as a “meat stylus” in the cold weather, rather than remove a glove.

Yep.  Meat stylus.  Not a bad name for a band.

[thanks to Sam over at The Jerk Store]

No, not Sex Panther – it’s the genuine scent of Old Spice.

Bam!

[via TheWeaselKing]

Possibly the reason I admire this stuff so much is because of the hours and hours I spent as a child trying to dub together amusing conurbations of other recordings, like getting the “you will know it is time to turn the page when you hear the chimes ring like this” storybook tapes to incorporate loads of swearing.

So anyway, enjoy.

[via The Weasel King]

On the off-chance you’ve ever wondered what Imperial Stormtroopers do in their spare time (between ineptly firing blasters around and not hitting Rebellion members, and polishing their helmets), it seems that Stefan over at the Stormtroopers 365 project has some revealing happy-snaps.

You can even buy calendars, if that’s your thing.

[thanks to Fi for the find]

[Wondermark]