Welcome back!
Once again we've both failed our posting duties. Apologies. So if you posted comments and wondered why it took days/weeks to appear, that's because we haven't logged in to approve them. Sorry about that.
Anyway, to get back, two stories of varying degrees of hilarity.
Firstly, Swiss troops have invaded Lichtenstein. By accident. That will keep me smiling for a good few weeks.
And, via Dr Feelgood, the advent of Conservapedia. It seems spoofers have set in, but not, for now, on the unicorn. This is apparently a genuine entry:
The existence of unicorns is controversial. Secular opinion is that they are mythical. However, they are referred to in the Bible nine times,which provides an unimpeachable de facto argument for their once having been in existence. Christian apologists have advanced various arguments that the biblical unicorn was not a fantasy animal.
...One recognized theory is that the unicorn was actually the rhinoceros...[!!!!! -ed]
Post-Noachian references to unicorns have led some researchers to argue that unicorns are still alive today. At the very least, it is likely that they were taken aboard the Ark prior to the Great Flood.
Fantastic, isn't it? Also pretty amazing is this entry cataloguing bias on Wikipedia, including the following:
Wikipedia often uses foreign spelling of words, even though most English-speaking users are American.
This means they use "favour" instead of "favor"; and Wikipedia even uses the German spelling of "Habsburg", 'even though the American spelling has always been "Hapsburg".' How DARE they use German spellings for German dynasties. It's political correctness gone mad.
I would spend hours browsing Conservapedia, if it were not for the fact that the swines boast about how many page views they get on their home page. Still, happy browsing!
Cory
