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Banterist Gets A Mashable Shout Out, Which I Am Told Is Good

An old Banterist post, Facebook in the Fuhrerbunker, made Mashable's Top 5 Funniest Fake Facebook Pages list. This was...

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"It Was Twenty Years Ago Today"

In 2005 my wife dragged me, kicking and screaming, to China. I did not want to go because I had a picture in my head that I was quite comfortable with and didn't feel like challenging it. But, since my wife is almost invariably right it turned out to be one of the most amazing trips of my life. I still talk about the asparagus. Best asparagus ever. No doubt it was farmed in melamine-tainted soil with carcinogenic fertilizers - but it was truly delicious.

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If Hitler Hated Disorganized Closets Instead of Jews

A nation that understands the profound essence of its struggle and feels itself to be the purest embodiment of organizational savvy, will with almost mathematical certainty some day emerge victorious. The Motherland shall inevitably win her rightful position on this earth if she is led and her closets dutifully purged and organized according to the same principles.

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Performed Well In Both Poles, Too

Make Banterist.com your #1 destination for nearly-topical Mt. Everest-related humor....

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Anachromart

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Facebook in the Fuhrerbunker

The Aryan Racebook.

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Poland Dispatch: Renaissance Festival vs. Borne Sulinowo Military Festival

As you might expect, a comparison between a Renaissance Festival and the Borne Sulinowo Military Festival.

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The Six Wives of Jake Gyllenhaal

Using modern facial recognition technology to see what current actors Henry VIII and his six wives most resemble.

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Aelfred of Dunwoody Recalls a Viking Incursion at Wal-Mart, 848 AD.

As the gardening aisle braced for the onslaught of these merciless philistines we could hear the blood-curdling screams of the unfortunates who had taken refuge in the CD section. The Vikings slaughtered them to a man, and in their berserk fury did destroy a multitude of CDs in a section that spanned from John Mayer to White Stripes.

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How Past Girlfriends Could Have Changed History

Originally appeared on McSweeney's.

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The M-7 Multi-Function Combat Shovel

Field Manual for the M-7 Multi-Function Combat Shovel.

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The Post's Coverage of Henry VIII

Banterist's effort to amuse the .008% of the public familiar with both the New York Post and Tudor mischief.

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Churchill During NPR Pledge Week

Past meets annoying present.

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Events Historians Have Ignored With Good Reason

The Battle of Geddy Lee The Frowning Upon of Sir Henry Cromwell of Hinchinbrook, 1588 Massacre of the Not-So-Innocents Martin's...

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