Tag: humor

"You swollen-headed political dwarf, such a provocation will be regarded as a declaration of war!"

Behold the North Korean Random Insult Generator.

The book to win all the awards in science fiction…

…has been conceived by Teresa Nielsen Hayden and colleagues: The book has to be a graphic novel which is the first novel published by the author, a person of color who is an active and well-liked member of SFWA. It must be initially published in Canada, in French, as a paperback original, with simultaneous British …

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The real health-care crisis…

…”Internet-Induced Hypochondria.”

My waveform collapsed, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt

In view of the fact that quantum physics seems to suggest that reality doesn’t exist until it is observed, and since great portions of the universe are currently unobservable by humans, I’m thinking of creating a T-shirt with the slogan: GOD: Observing reality so you don’t have to. What do you think?

The medieval help desk

Yes, I know, thousands of people have already linked to this video of a patient medieval tech support worker guiding a monk in the usage of the very latest information storage technology…but I haven’t! Well, until now, that is.

Student evaluations of Socrates

Very funny. A taste: Socrates is a real drag, I don’t know how in hell he ever got tenure. He makes students feel bad by criticizing them all the time. He pretends like he’s teaching them, but he’s really ramming his ideas down student’s throtes. He’s always taking over the conversation and hardly lets anyone …

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A rat-tickling good time!

Last week’s column on laughter, inspired by John Tierney’s column in the New York Times, mentioned that rats make a high-pitched squeak when tickled. Tierney’s blog has had several laughter-related posts since his column appeared. Here’s another one, specifically about rat-tickling–complete with a link to a rat-tickling video! (And how often can one say that?)

"There are these two muffins, see, and…(snort, guffaw)…I’m sorry, I just can’t go on."

John Tierney, whose New York Times column and related blog post on laughter inspired and informed my Leader Post science column this week, has a follow-up blog post on a “shocking and unexpected development.” It seems “readers reported laughing out loud at the muffin joke“!

That’s not funny…so why am I laughing?

Whenever an election is about to occur, we see stories of the “gender gap,” the difference in voting patterns between men and women. But there’s another gender gap that perhaps hasn’t had as much attention: the difference in laughing patterns between men and women. I’ve written before about laughter, but since I’ve noted sadly before …

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I’ve got nothing against Macintosh computers…

…but I still thought this “I hate Macs” rant from the Guardian was very funny. (Be sure to read the tag. And the first comment.)

Sometimes when they say "It’ll never work," they’re wrong…

…but sometimes, they’re right. Behold The Museum of Unworkable Devices.

The Devil’s Publishing Dictionary

Paperback Writer is a blog by multi-pseudonymous writer S.L. Viehl that I’ve missed until now which suddenly (for obvious reasons, now that I have one book in paperback and another at the publisher’s) has great resonance with me. Particularly these two posts, the Devil’s Publishing Dictionary parts one and two. Many funny entries. Among my …

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