Truncated senders
In my mail interface, there's a column showing the name of the sender of the email, but that column isn't very wide. So the mail application truncates long sender names...
Archive for Funny
Emotive conjugations
In 1948, Bertrand Russell, on a radio program called The Brains Trust, gave a joke example of an irregular verb conjugation: I am firm; you are obstinate; he is a...
Let them eat…
Mary Anne was talking about eating cake the night before surgery. I noted that cake is the best medicine. Which led me to think there could be a whole series...
old win
Just encountered an amusing typo in a news article: “old win in new bottles.” I suppose the opposite of that is old fail in new bottles....
Fear no noxious
The other day, Kam and I watched the Lost (season 2) episode titled “The 23rd Psalm.” And she joked, “The 23rd Psalm—isn't that ‘I must not fear; fear is the...
When spambots go awry
Spambots that post comment spam in blogs apparently have a synonym system: they take a piece of text, and they substitute in synonyms for a bunch of the words and...
Handling
Unintentionally funny bit from an article today. The article discusses the lack of delays today from passengers requesting a “pat-down” instead of going through backscatter machines. Then it switches topics...
Food and serial commas
From an article about rescued Chinese miners: But today rescuers hailed a miracle as they pulled more than 100 miners to safety after eight days trapped underground. They had survived...
There can be only one (or two)
Heard an unintentionally funny line on the radio this morning: "There's only one person who can answer this, and that's y'all." —Car Talk caller, 4 April 2010. Of course, "y'all"...
Best spam subject lines of late
As noted in my main blog, I've been clearing out my spam mailbox lately. Here are some of my favorite subject lines from spam messages I've seen recently. I'm especially...