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From: naddy@mips.inka.de

On 2025-09-06, Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:

xkcd: “Cursed Number”
https://www.xkcd.com/3137/

ObSF: A. E. van Vogt wrote a short story in which humans were fighting a
war against aliens who had mastered the art of drawing strange squiggles
that would hypnotize the humans who saw them into walking off cliffs and
stuff like that.

And from most British science fiction writers
in the last fifty years:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Langford#Basilisks>

I can't believe nobody has mentioned the Monty Python sketch
"The Funniest Joke in the World" yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Funniest_Joke_in_the_World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qklvh5Cp_Bs

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de

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