El Kiablo

The look a puppy of skirmish gives you when you cancel it's leave is super guilt inducing

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Showing mercy is a stupid pet trick that the dogs of mercy never learned. Also not pooping on the rug

Further reading: Speaking of animals - this fake twitter account parodying We Bought a Zoo is hilarious

Goldilocks had to work harder to wander into that pyramid than she did to wander into that bear's nest

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

I hope that third angry thing loves codependent relationships because if so he's in a prime spot to start a terrible one

Further reading: I don't like twitter that much, but the GOP Muppet Hearings trending topic isp pretty funny

Goldilocks should use bears to build her tomb - they're stronger than mere slaves

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Finally it is revealed why there are three pyramids in Egypt

Further reading: I find it hard to believe that a film that only cost $3 million could be one of the biggest box office flops of all time, but there you go. But I'm more surprised that a film with crocodile attacks and gratuitous lesbianism did so poorly

Oliver Twist's gruel giver's were very particular about how you asked for things

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Crows and gruel have very similiar grouping patterns during flight, thus the same name for their packs

Further reading: As far as I know, there's only one other cartoon about gruel in the El Kiablo archives

The award for most uses of the word "working" goes to this cartoon

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Is there a type of hooking that isn't worldly? Only the angels know, I guess

Further reading: New songs from the National! Word!

Rudyard Kipling's origin myth for the Alpaca is pretty insane

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

It might not make any sense to you that a centaur's best friend would be a minotaur, but its just as improbable as a gorgeous klutz having a sassy gay socialite for a friend a la every romantic comedy of the last twenty years

Further reading: This article about Scooby Doo and Secular Humanism is actually pretty awesome

Like most statistics, this one is completely made up. The punchline, however, is true.

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The Venn diagram of people who are attracted to numbers but not to "69" and people who are only attracted to the number 69 is something which Sesame Street never got around to showing, mostly because they rarely count above ten

Further reading: Not particularly relevant, but this map of how mobile the population of a given state is will surprise you

The emperor's new clothes sometimes contain diapers

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

A fruit in the bed is worth two in the mouth

Further reading: I feel like I link to the Oscametrics column all the time, but it's awesome all the time

Egg Men didn't even last long enough to be left off the ark

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The King's men and horses might have done a better job of rebuilding poor old Humpty if they hadn't been so preoccupied with creating pants that were more complicated than leaves dangling from strings

Further reading: Deus Ex Machina - God + Florence = Florence and the Machine

The Princess and the Peacock is a much more terrifying story, where a would be princess crushes a bird underneath her rump

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

If the Prince gets to put a pea in the bed up front, I say it's non-negotiable that you get to put a cat on the bed in the end

Further reading: Of note to people who (like me) saw the new Muppet movie over the weekend: the Mahna Mahna song was originally from an Italian softcore movie, apparently