stuff I find funny

 

 

Assume a spherical cat. On YouTube.

Star Wars as a silent movie. YouTube again.

A trippy visual illusion and some really weird optical illusions.

Anyone who went through undergraduate education in the sciences will appreciate this lab report.

In a similar vein, here are some actual answers given on science tests. Did you know that the pistol of a flower is its only protection against insects?

And more student humor -- a great proof that Hell is exothermic.

Here is a proof that girls are evil.

Is your life without meaning? You may want to worship at the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. This tongue-in-cheek religion pokes fun at the creationist/evolution "debate."

Oh heavens, check out this great chinese karaoke video. What emotion. It's worth watching through to the end... makes me weep every time.

Does your woman not have your dinner ready when you come home? Does she plague you with her problems instead of listening to yours? Does she, in fact, not know her place? Here is the Good Wife's Guide -- circa 1950. (Note: I thought this was a spoof, and found out it wasn't! See the email that was sent to me by the person who originally posted this picture).

Disturbingauctions.com is a great place to while away an afternoon, perusing such items as an apple sculture gone horribly wrong ("Note the tag in the magnified version, desperately trying to justify this as an art form") or the fine selection of emotionally scarring toys. Mr. Peanut Butter makes me laugh every time: Put in peanuts, turn the cranial crank, and peanut buttery sludge oozes from the side of his head. Mmm, who else is hungry?

Weird Experiments (click on link to "film clips")
A collection of classic experiments -- some quirky, some essential to modern psychology (such as conditioning, or a fascinating account of the Milgrim experiment). In the 1960s, one researcher summed up 70 years of research on falling cats: As can be seen, the turning cat raises a lot of interesting problems, even though their solution may not be of much practical importance except to other cats.

This photo depicts a label in French on a laptop bag made by a small American company. It translates as:

"Wash by hand with warm water.
Use mild soap. Dry flat. Do not use bleach. Do not dry in the dryer. Do not iron. We're sorry that our President is an idiot.
We didn't vote for him.

WARNING: This product warps space and time in its vicinity.
We are proposing that, as responsible scientists, we join together in an intensive push for new laws that will mandate the conspicuous placement of suitably informative warnings on the packaging of every product offered for sale in the United States of America.

These Weapons of Mass Destruction cannot be displayed. You will also reach this page if you do a Google search for WMD and hit "I'm feeling lucky."

Stella Awards. The Stella's are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonalds. That case inspired the Stella awards for the most frivolous successful lawsuits in the United States.

Computer Language Inventor or Serial Killer? Take the quiz... My score wasn't so great!

March/April 2004 Utne Reader.

 

Some wonderfully bad pickup lines.

This isn't funny so much as COOL.20Q.net is a computer version of 20 questions, and the computer guesses what you're thinking of. Try it. Eerie.

And similarly, another program to test your subconscious. It's uncanny....

And if you want to waste some time, here is a very good brainteaser puzzle (requires flash). It involves timing!

Music for one apartment and six drummers. A creative and funny piece of musical theater.

I used to send a variety of things through the mail, including handmade postcards made of newspaper clippings and the like. Mail art in general I find interesting. This group of people took the concept even further, conducting a series of experiments on just what items the USPS would deliver. The results are interesting...

This is the title of this story, which is also found several times in the story itself, by David Moser -- a fine example of self-referential contortions.

The Annals of Improbable Research. Science humor is not an oxymoron. They also host the annual Ig Nobel Prizes, awarded for research that "cannot or should not be reproduced".

The Darwin Awards is a dangerous place to visit, at least if you have other things in your life you want to do.

Switch to Linux. Supervillains do.

And for all you Peace Corps people out there, we have a selection of Guinea and Peace Corps humor on my Friends of Guinea site.


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