I’m reminded of the Monty Python sketch about the funniest joke ever told.
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Category Archives: humor and oddities
Research Gone Bad
I've been shown this site at least once a year by some Net newbie. It's funny enough to be worth posting, though.
Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass
"Abstract: The exponential dependence of resistivity on temperature in germanium is found to be a great big lie. My careful theoretical modeling and painstaking experimentation reveal 1) that my equipment is crap, as are all the available texts on the subject and 2) that this whole exercise was a complete waste of my time. "
Open Mouth, Insert Foot
Things People Said
Ordinary people can be drop dead funny.
"Human speech is directly responsible for almost every thought and emotion we have throughout life's journey. The complexity of language and the complex messages we use it to communicate leave the possibilities wide open for just about anything. Among other things, people can say things that are funny. We pay good money to see comedians say funny things, and a lot of them come through. But due to the nature of the human comic sense, the deliberateness of a comedian can dilute the potential for humor."
"This page features humor that bypasses that. The humor here is, for the most part, unrehearsed and unintentional. Hundreds of quotations are listed. There are lines spoken by people intending to say something else. There are lines spoken by people who misunderstood something or other. They may or may not have known any better. The intricacies of human language may have fouled them up, or perhaps unfortunate slips of the tongue led them to ignominy. Whatever the case, there's a lot to laugh at."
Urinal Etiqette
Fellas, have you ever wanted smack someone for breaking the “every other one” rule of urinal use? Well, now you can point them to this handy guide to proper urinal etiquette.
Lost in America
(“Lost in America” is a song by Alice Cooper)
The following is a very long, but interesting, article about the current exodus from suburbs into sub-suburbs (or “exurbs” as the author calls them).
Patio Man and the Sprawl People
America’s newest suburbs.
by David Brooks
I DON’T KNOW if you’ve ever noticed the expression of a man who is about to buy a first-class barbecue grill. He walks into a Home Depot or Lowe’s or one of the other mega hardware complexes and his eyes are glistening with a faraway visionary zeal, like one of those old prophets gazing into the promised land. His lips are parted and twitching slightly. Inside the megastore, the grills are just past the racks of affordable- house plan books, in the yard-machinery section. They are arrayed magnificently next to the vehicles that used to be known as rider mowers but are now known as lawn tractors, because to call them rider mowers doesn’t really convey the steroid-enhanced M-1 tank power of the things.