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Hrmmm, there is a resemblance...

He is smart. He will make chair go.

Hrmmm, there is a resemblance...

These days, suddenly, everybody is a petroleum engineer.

In a readable version: http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20050511132059/uncyclopedia/images/8/8e/BibleWarningLabel.jpg

Forget the Rabit-human hybrids. What about the Catgirls?

NOOOOOOO!

;)

(Sorry I just couldn't help myself)

Don't forget
Harry Potter collector cards!

OH NOES!

You are confused. Here are a couple of images to prove my point:

Capitan Kirk uses a TOS PADD
Uhura uses a TOS PADD

True, these pads utilized a stylus, but Kay's Dynabook used a dedicated keypad area, so was less like an iPad and more like a Timex Sinclair:

Timex Sinclair

If this is true: "respiring with metals", then it seems more like just a few evolutionary steps to the Hortaas in"Devil in the Dark" from the original series.

(But then my understanding of the term "respiration" has probably been impoverished by watching too much sci-fi tv.)

"this photo of him peeling back the hardened skin of the lake." "The lake seemed to me more than anything to be like a large creature with no face, only arms and guts in which it slowly swallowed everything around it." "If it swallows some things, then it also spits others out"

Hey, somebody warm Denise Crosby not to visit this lake. We might still avert that misfortune!

great way to seclude yourself in a social environment. I stamp a rebel logo to your geek card.

What's wrong with hydrolic computers?

These photos need to be "enhanced".

Here's an enhancement from shortly after Pluto was demoted from planethood:

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/e/e5/Pluto_sad.png
 

power management firmware seems like it was written by a roomful of meth-addicted monkeys.

Dell takes exception to your statement. In fact, here's a photo of their lead power management developer.

actually, that's Saturday ... Odd though how the sabbath can move

s/Sunday/Sabbath/;

I don't think the punishment is death.

Exodus 31:15: For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must be put to death.

There are other, similar references in the Old Testament.

... and Jesus said it was ok to work ...

It's unlikely that Jesus has enough hit-points to cancel spells issued by the Old Testament deity, because he wasn't deified until well after his death.

As for Jesus being "raised from the dead," I'm rather surprised that people don't immediately see him for what he really is: a zombie.

...I can have a ham and havarti sandwich

I prefer bacon with halva. It's a helluva halva!

Article just has some videos, but here's a few pictures of it.

And I suggest a good behaviour when they fly in - otherwise these machines will come in.

try that URL with an SVG file that other standards compliant browsers can handle easily. And keep in mind that not all versions of MSIE can handle PNG either.

If you are using MSIE, test for yourself here:

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/southpark/images/8/8e/SouthparkCards.svg

Now try it again with Firefox, Opera or Safari among others.

No, there were both the normal Stormtroopers and the scout troopers. Both were having their asses equally kicked by the twigs and stones.

It's called the Mk.II. http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/metalgear/images/thumb/8/8b/Metal_Gear_Mk._II.jpg/375px-Metal_Gear_Mk._II.jpg

You left out the absolute best one.

This isn't bad either.

I propose this: http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/nonciclopedia/images/5/5d/Pullman_shuttle.jpg

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/familyguy/images/4/4a/Seamus1.JPG Family guy was up to something...

How about this puppy?

Ballmer eats fluffy bunny rabits

AFAIK he doesn't, I do. I love rabbit, especially fried. Frodo and Samwise eat fluffy bunny rabbits, too.

Ballmer shoots puppies.

America... FUCK YEAH!!!!

First of all, you forgot to include a link to one of these all important pictures

And secondly, there's still one of the original lunar landers existing today, and is still actually flying intact. Snoopy was the LEM used on the Apollo 10 mission, and one of two that flew to the moon, but didn't land. Snoopy was flown down to within about 7.4 miles of the lunar surface, but was not equipped for actual landing. It was then flown back up to rendezvous with the command module, and then Snoopy was released into a heliocentric orbit where it still is today. The other LEM that went to the moon but didn't land was Aquarius, the LEM from Apollo 13, which served as a space lifeboat to get the crew back home to earth.

I think I'll go have me a hamburger and a Coke for lunch now, thank you!

The thing is that, as opposed to graphics, text characters are symbols that have been explicitly designed (and evolved) to be easily distinguishable.

There are several roguelikes that give you the option of using ASCII or tiles (Nethack, Dwarf Fortress if you count that as a roguelike, Crawl, etc.) but tiles are mostly a choice for newbies who are scared of ASCII. An experienced player will always choose ASCII because it will give him a broader view of the situation. With ASCII, it is easy to have an 80x50 dungeon in full view, with every object perfectly distinguishable. To do that with tiles in most current screens, you would need 16x16 tiles and those tiles are just too small to look decent and distinguishable (see this one, for example) while an ASCII char is perfectly distinguishable at even smaller sizes than that.

So roguelikes using tiles typically just let you see a smaller part of the dungeon, which is a disadvantage, and thus any experienced player who wants to play in the best way possible will choose ASCII.

So no, it's not just a matter of being easier to code or saving CPU time. For some kinds of games, ASCII is just better.

To illustrate your point...

I can see why.

C'mon! Spock Must Die!

Whatta cover to read, on a 45-cent Bantam edition, as a gawking 7-year-old boy! By the time you're nine, and actually read the 120 or so pages in a little more than an hour...

That's a mind-bender for a single-digit annular. Gotta see 2001 to top it.

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/en/images/9/99/Spock_must_die.jpg

They should use some Russian Linux distribution. And use Russian Tux as their mascot.

Probably one of these:
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/supcom/images/thumb/4/47/Salem_insitu.jpg/400px-Salem_insitu.jpg

Uhm, the Tomb of Dracula, which had both vampires and werewolves in it, is a CCA approved comic.

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/thumb/d/d8/Tomb_of_Dracula_18.jpg/300px-Tomb_of_Dracula_18.jpg

Rule 34: http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/wikiality/images/3/31/ManKissesGiraffe.jpg

Both of them pretty much have said they will withdraw troops in accordance to what the commanders on the ground over there (Petraus?) say is safe for our forces and Iraq.

For some reason I seem to be having some feeling of deja vu all over again.

Bah, wikipedia. I prefer the more accurate uncyclopedia. Here is the perfect "number".

here is a picture of a perfect number. It is also the picture of an album cover, and all the tunes inside it are also perfect nimbers.

Many people think that this is the perfect number.

"I am not a perfect number, I am a FREE MAN!" - the Prisoner

I love the Transformers laser battles.
Laser beams being shot across Autobot city in an arc, like an arrow.

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/transformers/images/e/e1/BattleAutobotCity2.jpg
Take note of the orange lasers (under the easy-to-spot purple one).

who you can trust.