Grandiloquent Bloviator

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The Friday Shirk Retort

Every Friday, Twisted Sifter provides 20 links to funny things.  I will try to condense it to 10 or so links each week...

Thermal imaging a fart is why science is awesome 

Just ordered these for Valentine’s Day (In college, we talked all the time about making something like this.  We coulda been thousandaires.)

Take that Beijing!

What would a Shirk Report be without a word from our favourite dinosaur

Beware of BOLD, RED UPPERCASE FONTS in movie posters

Composite image of the average woman’s face around the world. In other news, women are much better looking than men

Damn you Mayor Bing. Damn you

For those that suck at tying the tops of bags

If you can afford a Lexus you can probably afford delivery…

Some startling facts about water. Freshwater in particular

This Popsicle stick is brutally honest

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