Archive for Funny
Someone recently linked to the Verbs Bad manifesto, a verbless argument against the use of verbs, written by Miranda Tedholm, age 17; it apparently won a Scholastic "Art and Writing"...
Saw this sign on a streetcorner outside a store recently: Used babies, $500 and up The store was, of course, a piano store....
Y'all may have seen the Powerthirst video. (If you haven't, then the following probably won't make any sense.) Well, now there's Powerlatin!!! MORE PRONOUNS THAN YOUR MIND HAS ROOM FOR!!!...
As reported by Womzilla, via Supergee on the cranky_editors LiveJournal community: Several groups trying to re-ignite New England's faith are theologically conservative, such as the Southern Baptists [and others]. They...
Best spam subject line of the week: RE: BE CAREFUL OF THE HUDLOOMS I thought perhaps a HUDLOOM was a weaving device containing a Heads-Up Display. Or perhaps some kind...
I saw a billboard advertising the new Droid cell phone yesterday. It had a hard-edged and manly sort of high-tech industrial look to it, and it said: A BARE-KNUCKLED BUCKET...
I've never previously read A Christmas Carol. Happened across it in an iPhone edition recently, discovered that it's quite short (about 30,000 words—I had always assumed it was hundreds of...
I'm pretty sure that I already knew that the Western Gorilla has the taxonomic name Gorilla gorilla (genus + species). But I don't think I knew until now that the...
Headline today on the BBC website: Pope could make Birmingham visit Birmingham hasn't visited in months, and I was beginning to think it never would. So I'm pleased to see...
Another entertainingly harsh movie review: There's nothing wrong with "All About Steve" that a rewrite couldn't fix, as long as the rewrite involved a different writer, a different character and...