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Lenore - The Cute Little Dead Girl
If you have never come across Lenor, you are in for a treat! Lenor is the brain child of Roman Dirge and she was met the world in comic book format a few years ago (I'm not a comic book geek but these are brilliant!!). Imagine my rapture when I stumbled upon this wonderful flash animation. This is only the first of many - I have discovered (aka nicking someone else links) a veritable trove of Lenore Joy on the interwebnet and I will bring you them in teasingly small portions over the Xmas period and beyond!! (as long as I can get to a computer regularly enough!). Pri.me health warning: Lenore is pretty dark and just a smidgen twisted (so maybe NSFW if you have a tense boss). Enjoy.
Episode 1 Lenore goes shopping for 'toys'.

Pie
I'm sure many of you are familiar with the wonderful world of Weebl and Bob, as I think it's been blogged here several times, but just for you fans here's a little reminder of the wonderful pie sketch.

Scrotums all round!
Stuck for a pesent to buy that akward-to-buy-for relative this Christmas?
Why not give them a scrotum?

Kangaroo ballbag purses have been about for a while, but now someone has decided that they wanted something a little more showy. You know, something you could put on your mantlepiece.

Helpfuly, they've filled it with nuts. Just to put the point across

Fantastic Folds
The only thing to say about these pieces of Origami: WOW

They speak the truth
Having only just bought my first car (that doesn't make me as young as you think... just skinter than you think) I have recently come to terms with just how much they completely screw your finances. It came, therefore, as a breath of fresh air to come across this bit of brutal honesty.

Holy Cow!
This is either good photoshopping or mother nature at her finest.

Sloshed Santa
Seeing as it's Friday, and we haven't had a Christmas game post in a few days:
Why don't you get Santa ratted?

'Bloody Foreigners'
We Brits always seem to take great delight in the translation of foreign languages into vague approximations of English (e.g. 'All your base are belong to us'). Well I've got news for you - it's just not funny! No really! Stop laughing!!

It was 100 years ago today
when Wilbur Wright, after a coin toss and a failed first attempt, took two feet into the air for the first ever powered flight of a heavier than air craft. You can now recreate this moment using this free downloadable open-source flight sim (microsoft need not get your hard-earned cash).

Incredible Facts About Wickham
I would never have believed that the south of England had so much to offer - such a rich history and a varied influence on the world. In particular the confusingly large community of Wickham - where you can find the dodo, a Commodore 64 and a prehistoric monster, but not PVC, rugs or goat dresses (multimap). On the whole this site is fair bursting at the seems with nonsensical information and the random nature of the navigation means it may take months to browse all the pages on offer (if indeed you ever finish!)

Japanese love mittens
No, not another amusing marital aid, but a reference to the first Apple^TM store to open in Japan, and the HUGE amount of people who turned out to the opening of it last month.

If you watch for long enough, you see the line hit the end of Tokyo and have to come back

Jumping Jokes - Home of bizarre animation
I spotted this and was rather tickled by the time and effort that has gone into something so pointless. Just a bunch of lovely animations apparently based on Terry Gilliam's Monty Pyhton style animation (although I didn't spot the influence until I was informed about it whilst reading the homepage). Little elements of this site may be NSFW the most is pretty safe. Being new gboy around here, I'm not sure if this has ever been gromblogged before so apologies if it has.

UPDATE Had the word from Grom last night, Gromlette home and happy, mother well, Grom "Grinning like an idiot".
No doubt some update from the man himself, in about 25 years time when his life returns to normal.

Even More Xmas Stuff
I seem to be developing a habit over the past few days for Xmas associated blogs. At least it's the season for it. I saw this and just thought it was absolutely delightful so I'm going to inflict upon you.

Murderous Little Pixies
Elves, eh? Tolkien would have you believe that they were lovely, noble and elegant creatures. I, on the other hand, have always thought there was something dark and twisted about the ugly little xmas associated critters, hence I derive great pleasure in being able to mercilessly slaughter every little imp that comes my way.

"Space," says The HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy, "is big. Really big...".
"... You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindboggingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. Listen ..."... (seemless segway into Monty Python 'Meaning of Life' quote...) "So remember when your feeling very small and insecure, How amazingly unlikely is your birth. And pray that theres intellegent life somewhere up in space, Cause theres bugger all down here on earth."

Ever wondered where your missing socks go?
I bought fifteen pairs of socks two months ago (you think I'm kidding, don't you?). Now I'm down to about 5 and a half pairs. I had to find out more. I stumbled upon this site which offers many views on missing absent sock phenomena, interesting stories and even self-help groups.

Eek - hold the press!
So, all of a sudden, having just started my blogging apprenticeship with the infamous JennyCide, (and still somewhat wet behind the ears) I find myself holding the fort as JennyC is otherwise engaged for a short while. I don't believe I've ever noticed a time when pri.me.uk has not had something significant to say at least once each working day (and indeed weekends) and I'm not prepared to let it start happening now! I cannot confess to being as knowledgable in the ways of the interweb as J.C. so don't expect too much out of me - however I do give my solemn oath that I shall waste as much of my work day as possible trawling the net for little gems I can bring to you to make your day that little bit lighter. I hope I do not fail to please.