27B/6 or www.27bslash6.com is a hilarious website maintained by Australia native, David Thorne.  I have no idea why it’s named 27B/6 nor do I particularly care (Though this Wired article is the closest thing I found to an explaination: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2006/06/never_meta_form/).  I first read one of his articles roughly a year ago regarding a late fee he’d accumulated and his attempt to convince the accusing party to accept a drawing of a spider as payment.  When I read it, I laughed, perused through some of his prior articles, and promptly forgot about the site…

That is until today, when I read an article regarding his late fees to Blockbuster and found it so funny that I had to post it here as a recommendation.  I’m feeling particularly lazy in convincing the rest of you to go visit his website today, so instead I’ll just post an excerpt from 1000 Characters…

Writing rubbish on the internet amuses me a bit. There is often a limit of 1000 characters per post so every story (including punctuation, spaces, introduction, proposal, argument and punch line) has to be within a small paragraph. I like trying to get as close to the 1000 character red line as possible and without ‘plumping’ out the stories with padding or adding words to previous sentences. Sometimes I just write about nonsense and other times I like to add something insensitive to laugh at the responses. When I was 14, I was given the task of drowning kittens by my girlfriend’s mother. I filled the large laundry sink with room temperature water and held the eight kittens under. The strange thing is that as each one died and floated to the bottom, it turned and rested ’snuggled’ to the previous. I put them in a garbage bag and was carrying it out when the bag moved and I heard a meow. I opened the bag and found one kitten had survived so I drowned it again. And that is an exact 1000.

You can follow 27B/6 on Twitter too @27bslash6.