Well, if there were only half a web page devoted to Iron Maiden album covers with Spongebob Squarepants inserted into them, what would you fill the rest of the page with?

Stills from the Spongebob Squarepants cartoon with Eddie inserted?

what?

Wasn't there a book called "Leisure, the Basis of Culture"?

Yep, Josef Pieper...

Well, at least I understand the "why" of THAT one!

"clearly someone has waaaaay too much time on their hands." (I have heard people say this more than once about silly web pages)

Wasn't there a book called "Leisure, the Basis of Culture"?

Somewhere, Patrick has an excellent rant on the insult of "too much time on his hands," also known as "get a life."

If I manage to locate it, I will report back.

I was reading Instapundit (because it's good to know what the bad guys are up to) and I came across this link reguarding Baen Books

In the comments section was this gem:

Too bad Baen only publishes right-wing trash. David Weber is the Heinlein of the 21st century, which is to say he is miliaristic, imperialist, racist and fascist as Heinlein was. One can hear the goosestepping behind every page. It's trash like this which the Faux-watching Red Stater dittohead bloggers love, which is why our nation becomes more of a fascist cesspool every day. What "treasures" are coming out in January? A quick scan of Baen's freerepublican site shows it Timoth Zahn, Johnny Ringo and Steve White -- Redstaters to the core. All we need is Ayn Rand and we can have a little nazi party. - Educated Progressive | Homepage | 28.Dec.05 - 22:16 |

He gave Daily Kos as his home page. I'm figuring there's a chance he's a right wing troll impersonating a real progressive, but sometimes the Verhoeven approach to Heinlein, and any SF that has the military shown in a positive light takes over people's brains.

You might actually like what wound up happening with Lord Whosis and his invalid wife. :)

Weber has described himself as a 19th Century liberal -- he's really big on freedom from excessive regulation and to trade -- but he's also really big on government support for education and infrastructure, freedom of worship/religion, and the obligation to use the power of government to restrain the rapacious mega-corporation to the rule of law.

The guy is, after all, an historian.

Ringo, yeah, Ringo has been drinking the koolaid.

I recall Weber and Dave Luckett, at that Bubonicon several years ago, having a long and well-mannered discussion about politics, from very different ends of the political spectrum. It could easily have seen print in a Making Light thread.

(Although this digression really should have gone into an open thread.)

Just sayin'.

[nod to the actual, you know, topic]: Iron Spongebob rawks!

I didn't need to know this...no, really....

On the other hand, there's something right about a wall of Spongebob Squarepants' evil brother Ed.

I suspect Kevin is correct:

Because their label hasn't found where to send the legal notice yet?

And I agree with Livia:

No, the question is: how did the hell you find it?

How do you find these things, Patrick?

. . .on what dimension is "that type" sorted? I like the idea of "primary color: yellow."

(they all begin with 555, because that way you don't invoke a real phone number and cause a real person to get random calls from silly people.)

("Hi. You've reached David Lynch. Glad you liked my movie!")

Re: the original question/koan -- things like this have been popping up on the Internet ever since Google switched to its new improbability drive.

Why indeed...

It makes me feel so normal. (*ack* dirty word! dirty word!)

I've had that backfire on me at least once: it recognized the number and declared it invalid--whereupon I had to type in all my information again, not just the phone number. That is, the form was set up so that it didn't just let you fix the bad bit.

One wonders if it was to punish people who were trying to give them easily-recognizable fake info.

Because if you tried to fit all the "Bob"-sponged Iron Maiden covers on half of a web-page, they would be what we web pros calll 'too tiny'.

http://www.longstoryshortpier.com/

..yippeeeee!

*Oh, okay. When the monkeys reached 24 letters, there numbers weren't quite infinite. But the simulator had made it to 2,737,850 million billion billion billion monkey-years.

Or they could riffle them like a deck of cards, and one could claim that they were speed-reading with no loss of comprehension relative to their flipping them more slowly.

Otto: Apes don't read philosophy.
Wanda: Yes they do, Otto, they just don't understand it.