They say March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. The lion part is right, at least! My daffodils are sprouting through the snow. The snow hangs on through the rain, because it’s a darn cold rain. Leap Day only makes the winter seem longer (and it is, by one day). March slams our year into fast forward. Daylight Savings Time begins on March 9th, earlier than ever. Palm Sunday is the 16th, and Easter is the 23rd, earlier than I can ever remember. The vernal equinox is the day before Good Friday. There is some talk in the Catholic church of moving St. Patrick's Day to another day before Holy Week begins, which would fall right in line with this weird month. The daffodils don't keep calendars or holidays. Still, they know what to expect, and they'll survive anything. There's some inspiration for ya!



Cut the Cheese

6 Restless Corpses. This article has nothing to do with the supernatural; it’s about real bodies that just can’t seem to rest in peace, or at least had to wait for their chance.

The People’s Mario stars Mario as a Soviet-style worker/hero who fights the evil mushrooms. The look is reminiscent of classic propaganda posters.

Garfield comics make just as much sense if you throw random panels together, and sometimes are actually pretty funny. The strip is also funnier if Garfield doesn’t say or think anything. When you completely remove Garfield from the strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life. (via Fark)

The Moment of Truth Finally Delivers on Its Promise to Ruin Marriages. (via Gorilla Mask)

We’ve been reading about China’s construction plans for years, and wondered whether all those huge buildings will be ready in time for the 2008 Olympics. Now those buildings are opening for business, one by one.

Retro Sabotage is a collection of classic arcade games with a twist. I would tell you what the twist is, but it’s different for each game. (via Metafilter)

Even the most carnivorous guy will eat a salad if it’s served in a cup made of bacon! The method for making them is pretty cool, too.

Cheating

(Thanks, Rich!)
A guy was trying to console a friend who’d just found his wife in bed with another man. “Get over it, buddy,” he said. “It’s not the end of the world.”

“It’s all right for you to say,” answered his buddy. “But what if you came home one night and caught another man in bed with your wife?”

The fella ponders for a moment, then says, “I’d break his cane and kick his seeing-eye dog.”

How to Behave on an Internet Forum. This should be required viewing before anyone can log on to the net.

Alternately, have you ever wanted to slip into the role of an internet troll, or hacker, or even start your own flame war? Try it without causing any real damage with ForumWarz.

The best fortune cookie ever. A little background.

The water tower that turned into a house. It’s available to rent if you’re ever in Suffolk.

If you can rig your Wiimote to do open your draperies, what else can you make it do? I’d rig one to take out the trash!

Urban Legend ER. Everything you’ve been warned about happens at once.

The weirdest news of the week.

A BORN SALESMAN

(via Phil’s Phun)
This salesman has been bugging a haberdasher for a long time for a job, and finally the haberdasher looks at him in disgust and says, "Look, I'll make a deal with you.

I've got one suit that I just haven't been able to sell -- that purple, yellow, and green thing in the corner. If you can sell it while I'm out to lunch; you can have a sales job here for life!"

And with a smug smile he goes to lunch. He comes back and the salesman runs up to him, exclaiming:

"I sold the suit! I sold the suit!"

The owner looks at him in dismay -- the salesman's clothes are ripped and torn all to hell, his face is scratched and bruised and bleeding.

The owner says, "What happened; did the customer put up a fight!?"

The salesman quickly replies,

"Oh, no; not at all -- but his seeing eye dog was annoyed"

Pulling Down a Palm Tree (via Arbroath)

Maybe they just didn’t have enough cable. Or an axe. Or sense.

Thought for today: Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.

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