Pre Inspection Failure A friend of mine bought a house recently, but then he found out it was haunted. It wasn’t an angry ghost, it wasn’t looking for revenge or for help to solve an old murder. He was just stuck in the bureaucracy, waiting to get to the after life. When […]
White Dwarfs and Black Holes
Bored On The Boat There was this astrophysicists, born in India, and further educated in the United States. He got his undergraduate degree in India, and took a boat to Europe to start his graduate degree. On his way, on the boat, in between being an undergrad and a graduate student, he came […]
Lonely Monty Hall
What Is He Saying? I have this really weird friend that only speaks in structure language. He avoids content at all costs, and, surprisingly enough, it’s very compelling and soothing to listen to this person. Like all you want to do is blank your mind, when you listen to this person. All […]
Instinctive Sex Programming
Meandering Lecture I went to see this lecture recently by a psychologist. She was applying theories of evolutionary psychology to sales, to leverage our ancient social instincts to more easily make money. Her theory was that everything is, at its core, a kind of frame battle. And that by understanding the deep […]
Ancient Orbiters
Deep Instincts Always Win I saw a recent lecture by a famous psychologist. She was talking about the relationship between online dating and the massive dumpster fire the modern dating game has turned into. She said that, at its core, it’s all about false signals. Compared to a more organic system, where […]
Amnesia Delivery Service
Elusive Bad Guy There is this really strange burglar the FBI has been looking for for some time. He has a very unique MO, and he never actually steals anything. The only thing they can arrest him for is credit card fraud, and breaking and entering. He chooses his victims very, very […]
Algebraic Jesus
Dirt Sellers I have some really weird friends. They’ve been having this really outlandish competitions since they were in college. Now, they have full time jobs and families, but at least once per year they’ll take a vacation together and have the absolute craziest competitions. Like they’ll each put $500 in a […]
The Paradox Of Societal Collapse
Marketing Genius There is a cereal company that has come up with an ingenious marketing strategy. It is a cereal targeted at kids, so they need to have some kind of gimmick. A prize in the box, some kind of game or comic strip on the back. They were slowly losing market […]
Dual Planet Theory
My Mouth Hurts I had a friend who had a pain in his mouth so he went to see a dentist. The dentist looked around and took an x-ray. He told him he had four wisdom teeth, all impacted. That the longer he waited to have them taken out, the more the […]
Inner Game Superhero
Weird Joke Teller I’ve had this really weird friend since elementary school. He’s got this really, really deadpan sense of humor. But the jokes he makes with this deadpan sense of humor never make any sense whatsoever. But because he is so serious, and he says these really weird things with such […]
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