Ridiculam Mundi Archives

1000 Years Of Cnut

C S Hughes May 7, 2017

Firstly, do not read this if you are dyslexic. And no tittering in the back row. This is mostly a...

Olga Hughes December 25, 2016

And thanks to Adrienne Dillard and Sandi Vasoli for organising this year’s Twelve Days of Christmas! ...

Olga Hughes December 24, 2015

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C S Hughes December 23, 2015

Ah, Christmas, such a wonderful time of the year. Though some people find it terrible, especially if they are sad...

Olga Hughes December 16, 2015

The New Yorker’s Alex Siquig has written the hilarious Ask King Richard III: A Political Advice Column, where American Presidential...

C S Hughes December 5, 2015

Follow the instructions in the poster above, and learn your secret Jedi name you will! Beware of the Dark Side,...

C S Hughes November 22, 2015

Imagine you are in a soothing pool of unidentified gelatinous goo, on a tropical island somewhere, possibly surrounded by a...

C S Hughes September 29, 2015

We all know what emoticons and emojis are, they are the cute little images that are part of operating systems...

C S Hughes August 21, 2015

The first recorded use of the word in English occurs in a 1528 manuscript copy of Cicero’s epic work of...

C S Hughes June 11, 2015

Howard P Hohenzollern has been called by some the “Guru of Mediocrity,” though Hohenzollern himself disputes this epithet in the...