Friday, April 24, 2020

A Hello to Arms

A Tyrannosaurus rex happily uses a dinosaur-head grabber to draw a heart with a crayon.

Overcoming physical limitations, one dino-head grabber at a time.  Anachronisms abound, but a happy T. rex makes it all better. 

Friday, April 17, 2020

A Taxing Operation

How the IRS creates tax forms:  1.  Draft out a nice, all-encompassing form in plain English.  2.  Shred and toss in a salad with an Italian dressing.  3.  Reassemble at the hands of a guy with only a vague understanding of the English language.  4.  Break out the thesaurus and replace every possible word with a fancy-sounding equivalent.  (So fancy!  So incomprehensible!)  5.  Condense every multi-word term into an acronym, while forgetting to remind people what they all stand for.  6.  Divide into 800+ different forms covering every possible idiotic variation.  ("No, Form 9802-A is for if you've stood on your head while working part-time.  Form 9802-D is to declare you've stroked a fluffy cat on the job.")

I've probably exhausted my allotted amount of snide comments for the month.  I regret nothing. 

I finished up my taxes this week (yes, the deadline was extended this year, but I didn't want it hanging over me any longer).  And not only was I reminded just how much of a headache it is making sense of all the instructions and whatnot, but I also discovered that there really are over 800 different tax forms.  And thus did the agonized screams of a thousand tormented souls echo up to the skies and make the folks over by Alpha Centauri wonder what the heck was going on. 

Friday, April 10, 2020

All Hats Are Off


No idea how she got through the door.  So... anybody volunteer to sit behind her?

Less likely to come up this year, due to the planet being closed for repairs (but I swear I'll throw something if I see one more person call the situation "unprecedented").  That said, there will probably be a fair share of people next year making up for it, so the rest of us should probably brace ourselves.

Friday, April 3, 2020

Blood Cell

Are you an avid hematoligist?  Into microanatomy?  Or just creepily obsessed with blood in general?  Vampire:  Hey!  Then get the all-new Blood Cell Phone!™  Make calls!  Surf apps!  Test your blood's iron content!  Currently on back-order, because seriously, these guys are freaks.  Vampire (toting a huge crate of blood cell phones):  I can quit anytime I want to - I just don't want to!  by Dilettante Co.

Vampires ruin everything, example #59,082.  At least someone made a profit on this one.

I'm kind of surprised that no one's made this a thing in real life.  It's an idiotically obvious pun.