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Strip 2: Fred the Love Unicorn

Contrary to folklore, it is not the unicorn which can only be captured by a beautiful virgin. Rather, only young and inexperienced girls can be tempted by the unicorn. Because any woman with a lick of sense knows that unicorns are scumbags.
Fred has a tiny, misshapen horn. And you know what they say about the [...]

HAPPY ST. PADDY’S DAY FROM FATHER JACK HACKETT!

Father Jack Hackett from the absolutely fantastic comedy series Father Ted.
[From Eclectic Micks: HAPPY ST. PADDY'S DAY FROM FATHER JACK HACKETT!]

Gradeshnitsa tablets

This is one of those weird things I like: nationalism and it’s influence on historical imagination. Specifically how in the Balkans it’s impossible to talk about linguistics without talking about nationalism. Romanians claim their language has an ancient substrate from Dacian, Greeks get all pissy about the Macedonians calling themselves Macedonians, and the Macedonians get [...]