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82 Microlog entries tagged with ‘funny’
The Onion: Oh No, Performers Coming Into Audience
My greatest fear realised. And I’m going to see Cirque du Soleil next week; I swear, if they try it I’ll run screaming out of the building. Interesting ·
The AV Club interviews Steven Wright
From last November. Steven Wright is a comedy genius, and a great performer to boot; when I saw him live a few years ago he did two-and-a-half hours straight, no breaks. That’s something. Interesting ·
The Great Outdoor Fight
I never really got Achewood before, but this story arc had me riveted [c/o Hammersley]. Interesting ·
Copy Editor’s Revenge Takes Form Of Unhyphenated Word
That could be me one day, that could [c/o languagehat]. Media & Journalism ·
Five fake Brian Wilson songs from the mid-70s
Including the old favourite, ‘French Fries in My Beard (Make Me Happy, But Sometimes Very Sad).’ Interesting ·
RIAA Bans Telling Friends About Songs
The sad thing is that, like the five-blade razor, this might well turn out to be true some day. Interesting ·
The Walker: Texas Ranger clip Conan O’Brien was afraid to show
But he showed it anyway. And I thank him for it. (For supplemental laughs, watch this MetaFilter thread fold in on itself as people take the piss out of others trying to explain the joke. God, do people really need instructions for everything?) Interesting ·
“An almanac of Complete World Knowledge compiled with instructive annotation and arranged in useful order by me, John Hodgman, a professional writer, in The Areas Of My Expertise”
I’ve subsequently seen the man on The Daily Show, and it makes me want his book even more. Arts & Culture ·
Perry Bible Fellowship archive
Not familiar? Oh boy, you don’t know what you’re missing. (Read The Guardian’s feature on the strip for some background.) Interesting ·
Voltron gets served
Our version of Cartoon Network sucks so badly compared to this [c/o elsewhere.subtraction.com]. Interesting ·
Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New ‘Intelligent Falling’ Theory
Gravity didn’t make that apple fall on Newton’s head — the Flying Spaghetti Monster did it! Interesting ·
On behalf of the Kansas Board of Education, welcome to the new Devo Middle School
The only place for all you spudboys and girls. I hope you get a flower pot hat at graduation. Interesting ·
Astronomers have discovered a group of stars that look like the TV character Victor Meldrew
I don’t believe it! Interesting ·
Obscenities Uttered by Jesus Christ
“Holy Mom, mother of me.” Ha! Interesting ·
Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass [c/o del.icio.us/cameron]
Boy am I glad my thesis hasn’t turned into something like this! Interesting ·
Although I Like a Good George W. Bush Joke as Much as the Next Guy, Some of Them Seem Gratuitous and Mean-Spirited
“Did you hear that Bill Clinton hired a new intern? It turns out that his old intern had to go home and spend time with her family after her brother was killed in Iraq.” Interesting ·
Star War: The Backstroke of the West [c/o The Morning News]
Long time ago in the faraway galaxy… Interesting ·
Did Penn Jillette invent the Aristocrats gag? [c/o WaxyLinks]
It’s been pretty much confirmed that he didn’t… but I wouldn’t have put it past him. Interesting ·
The Non-Exciting, Non-Adventures of Han and Chewie
“No Chewie, those were my sandwiches.” Ha! Interesting ·
Archive of Steve Bell’s cartoons for The Guardian [c/o LinkMachineGo]
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Introducing: Yacht Rock
Thank Jebus for Channel 101. Where would we be without House of Cosbys? Interesting ·
Philosophomon: Great philosophers’ heads on Pokémon bodies [c/o Boing Boing]
I like Descartle. Needs more work, though. Interesting ·
We Have Liftoff, Baby, Yeah!
Oh dear, that’s an unfortunate photo. Interesting ·
The Hall & Oates Test [c/o del.icio.us/magnetbox]
Let me guess… you’re an Oates? Interesting ·
The Daily Show in great form on the Michael Jackson verdict
This will be the only item about the Michael Jackson trial you will find here. Interesting ·
Darth Vader on Wheel of Fortune [c/o WaxyLinks]
It only works if you’ve got audio on your computer. I know, it’s so gonna get old in a few weeks, but why not milk it for all it’s worth while we still have time? Interesting ·
United States of NOOOOOOOOOOO!
This is funny if you can remember back like two or three years ago. Interesting ·
Scientology Losing Ground To New Fictionology
“Scientology uses strictly scientific methodologies to undo the damage done 75 million years ago by the Galactic Confederation’s evil warlord Xenu—we offer our preclear followers procedures to erase overts in the reactive mind. Conversely, Fictionology is essentially just a bunch of make-believe nonsense.” Oh The Onion, what would we do without you? Interesting ·
The Acerbic Wit of Lewis Black
If you don’t know who he is, well, he sorta looks and kinda sounds like that Mike Wilmott guy who hangs out with Rich Hall. But he isn’t. Interesting ·
Overheard in Dublin
An homage to Overheard in New York, perhaps? Interesting ·
I’ve Got Something in My Front Pocket for You
This, dear reader, is why I love South Park. (You know I wouldn’t be surprised if this turned out to be a real Noel Coward tune, too.) Interesting ·
Become the Idlewords.com macropatron
Injoke alert! Interesting ·
Doogie Howser, M.D. was the first blogger
This is nothing short of brilliant! Interesting ·
Chump change: a brilliantly scathing review of 50 Cent’s new album
Here’s a gem for you: “[50 Cent] is no big shakes as a rapper, but as a lyricist he’s a disaster. He can’t do metaphors - at one juncture he claims to have the dancefloor ‘hot as a tea kettle’ - and his idea of humour involves referring to fellatio as ‘licking the lollipop’. He can’t even insult people properly … He calls Fat Joe fat, which, given that he already calls himself fat, seems unlikely to sting the very core of his being. Fat Joe himself is hardly among hip-hop’s rapier wits - his wildly varied oeuvre includes Shit Is Real, Dat Gangsta Shit, We Run This Shit and Shit Is Real Part 2.” Interesting ·
The Onion’s Irish-Heritage Timeline
Ha ha ha, and all that. Interesting ·
Office Space, starring the Superfriends [c/o MetaFilter]
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Project Manager Leaves Suicide Powerpoint Presentation
“When Ron started deleting all of his old files last week, I thought he was worried about another hard-drive crash. I never imagined he was, you know, preparing.” Priceless. Interesting ·
The Apple Store Of The Future
What a great iDea ;o) Interesting ·
Profanity Adventures
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Isaac Brock’s message to the children of the world: “Grow the fuck up.”
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“Oedipus, as you know, is the tragic Greek king who killed his father and married his mother, a sequence of events that seldom turns out well.”
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The morons come out in force again; this time they want to be famous (but wait, is that Bill Wyman? And OJ Simpson?? OMG!!!) [c/o del.icio.us/mathowie]
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Cinematic Supervillain Showdown! [c/o kottke.org]
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“If TiVo were a beverage, it’d be a tall glass of Jamaican ginger beer with chipped ice and a lime wedge, while the Explorer 800 would be a paper cup of warm fake lemonade stirred with the finger of a nose-picking six-year-old.”
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ShaBot 6000: a comic strip for the 21st century modern Jew!
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iPod vs. The Cassette [c/o del.icio.us/magnetbox]
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NASA’s Cassini has found the Death Star [c/o Metafilter]
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Conversational Cheap Shots
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Spamusement: Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines
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Cooper Black: Behind The Typeface
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A Tribute to the late Ronald Reagan
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Bushgame: Hulk Hogan rallies America’s greatest heroes to take on the evil forces of the Bush Administration! (NSFW!) [c/o the irrepressible Mat Honan]
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I disagree with Merlin: I think “Da Lovas o’ Henry James” would make a brilliant gang name
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The Shining, in 30 seconds (and re-enacted by bunnies) [c/o plasticbag.org]
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Bad Names for Undercover Police Officers
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“[Although] it’s odd (and a little hard to take) when the hucksterish Jillette makes impassioned pleas for sanity, his overall tone of snide indignation is almost always funny, like when he calls a shady chiropractor who works on toddlers a “baby-twisting motherfucker.”“
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I’m a blahbity blah blappity blopeity blaaah blah blahblah bleeeblooooblah! What type of blahblah are you? [c/o blooblah.blorp]
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The Adventure of Lemmiwinks
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“Plato is a wrestling recruit at Athens University. He’s supposed to wrestle for them in the Olympics. They’ve given him a chariot to wrestle there, because he’s a big-time wrestler. He’s failing his philosophy class, Basic Thought, so his school hires Socrates, who’s a senior, to tutor him. Plato’s a little thick, so he ends up cheating, and they end up road-tripping to Mount Olympus so he can wrestle in the Olympics. The Greek gods Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades are all wrestling fans, and they’re betting on whether he’ll make it, so it’s kind of a big Greek epic.”
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Don’t you hate reviews by writers with fancy degrees who have seen the movie and have informed opinions? Now’s your chance to fight back! [c/o Magnetbox]
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I am The Catcher in the Rye! (Take the Book Quiz yourself) [c/o leuschke.org]
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BBC News Quiz: Are you a cynic? [c/o plasticbag.org]
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The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity [c/o dive into mark]
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Quotes from Either President of the United States George W. Bush or Senator/Chancellor/Emperor Palpatine from the Star Wars Movies [c/o Kottke.org]
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Thank You Fahelpinme Be the Cat I Know I Can Howcan I Put Thistha Cat That’s Sep Rit from Othacats
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Saddam Hussein Kevin Kline arrested in Iraq
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Monsters Are Everywhere!
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“Lately I’ve been wondering what would happen if a robot and a person had sex.”
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Bill Bailey has a weblog [c/o Infovore]
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According to a recent study, Kansas really is flatter than a pancake (plus more about the Ig Nobel Prizes)
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It started when Johnny Boots, the man with magical boots, broke away from the Power Gang…
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Boatmen, a spam poem
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Buddy Hackett 1924-2003
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How to swear in 108 languages [c/o Boing Boing]
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Raymond Carver, agony uncle (I’m sure this is a re-run, but it’s a good one)
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McSweeney’s: Rounder Characters in No Time Flat!
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Click here to view this site through the kaleidoscopic spectacles of mid-90’s homepage design [c/o kottke.org]
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“Were you born with a dim bulb or did you have it installed?” (this is what I get for trolling on a right-wing blog; always with the acidic one-liners)
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Bert and Ernie Call it Quits: Eight Six-line Plays Initiated by Bert (Barthelme-esque)
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The Onion presents Cooking Tips
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At McSweeney’s: Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn discuss The Fellowship of the Ring [c/o kottke.org]
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