Acronyms in a song
A few weeks back, I heard a country song on the radio in which the singer sang: I smell T.R.O, you B.L.E. I puzzled for a while over what T.R.O....
Archive for Funny
monkey misreading
Just saw a spam subject line that said: MONEY OR LOVE? WHY NOT BOTH? Only at first glance I misread the first word, so I thought it said: MONKEY OR...
Marmoset there’d be days like this
I don't seem to have ever linked to the brilliant O Fortuna misheard lyrics video, which plays "O Fortuna" while showing what the lyrics might be. Plus visual interpretations of...
Wreck an icing’s beach again
Back in the late '90s, I wrote a column on computer speech recognition. The state of the art has progressed somewhat since then. One of the new uses for the...
Mantisisms
I've been meaning for a while to collect in one place all the quotes from my sardonic pal Jack Mantis. Recently discovered the "pages" publishing system in Movable Type—sort of...
Gell-Mann quotes
Just came across two quotes attributed to physicist Murray Gell-Mann: If I have seen farther than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarves. [On the Feynman Problem-Solving Algorithm]...
Headline
Headline from a news story: Gay rights activist makes Clinton stop What did the activist make Clinton stop doing, and was it President Clinton or Secretary Clinton? Answer: Neither: the...
House rules, part 4
I've previously posted various fortune-cookie fortunes that I find entertaining when you add ". . . in bed" to the end: Column HHH: House Rules Blog entry: House rules Blog entry: Spam, fortunes,...
Pan
Occasionally, critics and reviewers can be entertainingly vicious. I generally don't approve of that sort of thing, but sometimes I can't help being amused. Case in point: the first line...
Walking into a bar
Someone recently pointed me to A Guy Goes into a Bar, a list of guy-walks-into-bar jokes. I figured they would probably be mostly dumb, but it turns out there are...