News You Can Bruise for 2006 March 30

Once again, only ONE MAN dares give me comic constraints. In addition to breaking the 200-recipes-edited mark today, I created my own Cat and Girl, in the spirit of the original. The constraints were:

• It starts with a joke.
• It ends with a real conversation I've had. (Conversation was fictionalized to fit the Cat and Girl characters.)

I hate the vocoder because it's used in all the damn pop songs I hear in the supermarket, and I suspect its primary use is to cover up the fact that pop singers can't sing. But this tutorial and its obvious-in-retrospect explanation of how vocoders work is pretty neat.