Ahh, a small web-archive of inspiring Alfred E. Neuman quotes.

“Smoking helps you lose weight — one lung at a time!”

“How come stealing from one book is plagiarism, but stealing from many is research?”

“A teacher is someone who talks in our sleep!”

For you Coznowskis out there, more information on the MAD legend (as well as the Usual Gang of Idiots) can be found here and here.

Christopher Reeves played him as a nice guy, but Superman’s comic origins suggest he was otherwise, borderline sociopathic perhaps. This is seriously funny, demented shit. Link here.

(It does beg the question; if Superman is the man of steel, and he is a dick, then is he the dick of steel?)

[via BoingBoing]

January 24 is the most depressing day of the year (tip from the increasingly brilliant Colbert Report). From the BBC:

“The formula for the day of misery reads 1/8W+(D-d) 3/8xTQ MxNA.

Where W is weather, D is debt – minus the money (d) due on January’s pay day – and T is the time since Christmas.

Q is the period since the failure to quit a bad habit, M stands for general motivational levels and NA is the need to take action and do something about it.

Dr Arnalls calculated the effects of cold, wet and dark January weather after the cosiness of Christmas coupled with extra spending in the sales.

He found 24 January was especially dangerous, coming a whole month after Christmas festivities.”