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Volume 33, Issue 1:
The HEURISTIC! Squelch

Cosplayer Loosely Resembles Anime Character

Leslie Carpenter, or Carpento-chan, as she is known among friends and online acquaintances, appreared at Santa Clara’s Fanime-Con “Der Cosplay” Masquerade event bearing a striking near-resemblance to the character Ayanami Rei from the popular Japanese anime Neon Genesis Evangelion. And for Carpenter, a five-year veteran of “cosplay,” in which fans dress up in homemade character costumes, her choice to dress as Rei was a carefully calculated one.

“Everybody usually always dresses as schoolgirl Rei,” Carpenter explained. “How hard is that? That’s just re-using your schoolgirl Asuka costume and adding a wig.”

“When I think Rei, I think plug-suit Rei,” Carpenter declared proudly, referring to the form-fitting armored jumpsuit worn by the character while piloting her Evangelion, a giant robot.

As she posed for pictures with other convention attendees in a poorly-lit hotel convention hallway, Carpenter modeled her handiwork: a crooked, too-bright blue wig and a wrinkled, loose-fitting jumpsuit of satin and spandex marred only by an distracting Fanime-Con guest tag.

Though Carpenter is not noticably overweight when dressed in ordinary clothing, her costume, perhaps inevitably, invited unfavorable comparisons to the impossibly skinny, yet shapely fourteen-year-old animated character upon whom it is based. Confronted with this fact, Carpenter remained unfazed.

Words from the Top

Ba-Boon to Humanity

The methods used to judge the worthiness of a potential mate has grown into a convoluted tortured science that is incomprehensible to suitors themselves. Single men and women gather in remote bars, homes, and vacated warehouses to practice obscure ritualistic behaviors to select the best possible mate. No matter the sexuality, the criteria used in mate selection are inconsistent and self-defeating. The ultimate goal in all social interactions is finding a stable monogamous fornication buddy. So, it’d be best to bypass the time-consuming practices of drinking, eating, conversing, and/or romancing for more efficient mechanisms.

This leads me to the Hamadryas Baboon. The Hamadryas Baboon scours the fields of eastern Africa searching the terrain for wild roots, leaves, insects, fruits, and small mammals. When not foraging, the baboon is fucking. How is it that the male baboons are such successful fuckers? Well, evolution has gifted the female baboons with large fleshy genitalia. When swollen red during the baboon’s monthly cycle, the female’s glowing vagina is an eyesore to the casual zoo patron, but an inviting home to any male baboon’s phallus.

Of all the animal kingdom’s advancements, none is more efficient than the swollen, blood-engulfed posterior of the female Hamadryas Baboon. Now I’m not suggesting using the same mechanisms, but perhaps a similar one that permits the concurrent wearing of pants.

We simply need to alter our behavior for the sake of efficiency. The only way to achieve this will be through a united effort. Once a system is in place it will not be bizarre if every one is accepting. So, here’s the system. For example, you walk into a room. You are greeting friends and catching up on recent events when from across the room you spot your potential fornication buddy. Now instead of proceeding with the usual troublesome courting practices of introducing yourself and chatting it up, you instead approach her and lick her forehead. You anxiously wait for the pending response to your move. Will she lick back, or will she reject your move by baring her gritted teeth and making a hissing sound? Now if she licks back, she’s interested in pursuing a relationship that will inevitably end with fornication. However, if you’re seeing teeth but no tongue, it’ll best for you to invest your efforts elsewhere. The time consumed during this interaction was no more than a few seconds, and without the embarrassing and insultingly transparent ordeal of pretending to be interested in personality.

Similarly, females will be able to send clear signals of rejection without the hassle of phony conversational escapes or the aid of friends cutting in on unwanted dance partners. All these benefits come for the simple price of a damp forehead.

Top Ten Ways to Scare the Red Cross From Ever Asking You to Donate Blood Again.

  1. In little kid voice: “Once … this time … once upon this time … I…once ….this time…I fucked my dog.”
  2. “Puck, Why you steeeck your fingers in my pee-a-nut butter?”
  3. “Can I have the needle when you’re finished with it?”
  4. Punch the nurse in her belly
  5. “So, saran wrap and a rubber band can be considered ‘protection,’ right?”
  6. [Foam at the mouth]
  7. Just before she sticks you with the needle, grab her shoulder, look at her with your eyes as wide as possible and say “FOR STALIN AND MOTHER RUSSIA!!!”
  8. “I don’t have anal sex…I have BLOODY ROUGH ANAL SEX.”
  9. “Just watch out for the track marks, okay?”
  10. “I wanted to save you guys some time so I put it in this bucket.”

Top Ten Ways to Tell Your Teen is Troubled

  1. Standing on block of ice with a moose around his neck
  2. Standing on block of ice with a noose around his neck
  3. Father’s Day gift includes coupons for chores and coupons for crack
  4. In lieu of posters, nails old blocks of cheese to wall
  5. Uses the word “autumn”
  6. He’s grown too big for his jar
  7. While your other teen isn’t troubled, she’s fucking the one you’re worried about. You’re worried about both now.
  8. Equipped with Pop-O-Matic bubble
  9. Doesn’t notice replacement of Gap clothing with Old Navy knockoffs
  10. Still breast fed, and you’re not lactating anymore

Top Ten Ways to Spice Up Your Marriage

  1. Put it in her butt.       Dude.
  2. Greet your spouse at the door wearing nothing but a brand-new attractive body
  3. With luv
  4. Push twin beds back together
  5. Have a hot steamy date eating hot steamy lobster in a hot steamy vat of boiling water
  6. Buy matching denim pantsuits
  7. Slam it to the left (if you’re having a good time), shake it to the right (lemme know that you feel fine), shake it to the front (ha! ha!), hi-see-ya, hold tight
  8. Have more children to remind you of the youth to which you can never return
  9. Tandem bicycle
  10. Remarry your loved one and have resex

Top Ten Non-Pornographic Porno Movies

  1. All Aural ActionGA$A3 Hearing Solutions Presents: Ear Pirates II
  2. Playboy Presents: Playboy Corporation’s Fiscal Report 2001
  3. Jungle Fever: Malaria
  4. Lesbian Prisoners in Solitary
  5. Housewives That Set a Decent Example VII
  6. Inhibition
  7. Girls Gone to Sleep
  8. Boys Avoiding Boys
  9. Deep Thought
  10. Debbie Doesn’t Do Dallas

Top Ten Things to Say to a Dog You’re Abandoning When It Keeps Looking at You Like That

  1. Nothing. Let your new dog do all the talking.
  2. “So … um … I guess I’ll … see you around then. Yeah.”
  3. “The last five dogs took this way better than you’re taking it, you big baby.”
  4. “Dry those tears, and I’ll let you dry hump my leg one last time.”
  5. “Don’t be hard on yourself, you really had no chance to compete against that Shetland pony.”
  6. [While extending fist] “Stay strong dude.”
  7. “I left you some Purina in the bag, that should cover you for a few days.”
  8. “Hey, look, a fire hydrant!” [Run away when dog turns head]
  9. “Bad dog! No! Bad dog! Stay! I love you, but … but …”
  10. “Aw, boy, stop looking at me like that.”

Volume 11, Issue 3: Colored Balls

Top Ten Changes in Post-Taliban Kabul

  1. Everything no longer different now

  2. Kabul-3’s new armored buildings retract underground when attacked

  3. New spring break destination
  4. Deposed President gets un-hanged
  5. Women still treated like idiots, but get to wear tank tops
  6. Bin Laden posters half-price
  7. Upswing in Nancy Drew book sales as little girls learn to read
  8. Sun blocked out by kite-filled sky
  9. Everyone happy, content, free
  10. Hard Rock Cafe: Kabul