Luckily, we now have a head start on everything we will find funny in 2008.

I’ve already started working on LOLgendarmes.

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Yeah. I suck.

I promise to post actual freaking content once the evil monkeys unchain my hands from the burning furnace of work.

But for now — [forlorn sigh] — this be what you get.

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Bah. Disdainful cat is disdainful.

xkcd pleases me. Greatly. (I know Mabel agrees with me.)

However, the past week has seen me snort lukewarm coffee on my screen on two occasions.

And the best thing about it?

99.9% of the populace WILL HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY ARE ABOUT.

Let’s test my theory!

Anyone get this?

How about this one?

Anyone?

[Tumbleweeds roll serenely across my desk.]

Bah. I don’t care what the tumbleweeds say — these are awesomely funny.

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You know, I do have to say… tumbleweeds are very picturesque.

[The tumbleweeds are pleased by my compliment.]

Sigh.

Those moments when the stars of geekdom all seem to align in harmonious conjunction, when the elements add up to a pure geek gestalt that makes your skin tingle, your smile stretch to the back of your head, and you find yourself helplessly jumping up and down in your seat?

I call that a geek bomb.

Personal examples?

• In Pulp Fiction, when Butch picks up the baseball bat, then picks up the chainsaw, and then sees the purest of pure geek weapons — HOLY HELL, IT’S A FREAKING SAMURAI SWORD — hanging on the wall? Geek bomb.
• In Raiders of the Lost Ark, when the Nazis drive off with the Ark of the Covenant, and then Indy appears [insert Raiders theme here] chasing after them ON A FREAKING HORSE? Geek bomb. (Echoed later on by an equally powerful geek bomb when he appears on the deck of the submarine. Hoo-whee.)
• In Superman Returns, when Superman lifts THE ENTIRE FREAKING KRYPTO-CONTINENT into space, finally showing on screen the incredibly massive moving-planets-if-he-so-chooses strength that comic book fans know Superman has but have never gotten to see? Geek bomb.

I could go on in this vein FOR DAYS… but I do have a point.

Last night’s episode of Heroes.

Seen it?

If not, I will keep this spoiler-free.

Suffice it to say… I got ONE MOTHER OF A GEEK BOMB last night.

If you saw it, you probably know what I’m taking about.

My glee reservoirs? They are full.

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Got your own personal geek bombs? Then delurk, my pollen-dusted readers… delurk!

“NO, DON’T YOU GET IT? IF YOU DIE IN CANADA YOU DIE IN REAL LIFE”

- xkcd