Entries in the Category "humor"
Diversions
File this under "proof that I very much need to return to my usual academic routine." When I'm home all day I screw around on the Internet and lose hours of my life to ridiculous and awesome crap.
You want to know what this is about, click ahead.
Ah, To Be This Clever
From McSweeney's (the sometimes too too clever hipster publication which in this case got it just right):
Famous Authors Narrate the Funny Pages
Beetle Bailey
by Ernest Hemingway
"It's a mighty sorry business, Sarge being blown up like that," Beetle said. The other soldiers in the café nodded silently. He ordered another bottle of vermouth and drank the vermouth. It was a good vermouth.
Check out the others, including Peanuts by Jane Austen and Dilbert by Charles Dickens. Garfield by James Joyce is also a highlight.
Were you a child in the 80s?
If so, you probably have a photo of yourself like this:
See other people's youthful humiliations at We Have Lasers!!!!!!!, a photo blog that was just begging to be made.
I know I have at least one of these (4th grade) which I really kind of want to submit to this site now. As I recall, my hair was painstakingly crimped and then gathered in a side ponytail, and I'm wearing my best ruffled denim jumper, accessorized by my then-favorite plastic dangly heart earrings.
I was tipped to the blog by this slideshow over at Newsweek.com. If those sites aren't enough to waste your workday, take a look at some of my favorites, like You Suck at Craigslist, Passive Aggressive Notes and of course, Sexy People.
Fun with words!
Just found this on the Internet. Apparently, it circulates as one of those "true stories" we all get through e-mail, but its real origin is a humor piece written by Steve Martin for The New Yorker in '99. (See it on his website here.)
Forgive me, Mr. Martin, because I'm going to reprint it in its entirety. Loved you in Baby Mama!
Disgruntled Former Lexicographer
The following definition was discovered in the 1999 edition of the Random House dictionary. The crafting of the definition was the final assignment of Mr. Del Delhuey, who had been dismissed after thirty-two years with the company.
mut·ton (mut’n), n. [Middle English, from Old French mouton, moton, from Medieval Latin multo, multon-, of Celtic origin.]
1. The flesh of fully grown sheep.
2. A glove with four fingers.
3. Two discharged muons.
4. Seven English tons.
5. One who mutinies.
6. To wear a dog.
7. A fastening device on a mshirt or a mblouse.
8. Fuzzy underwear for ladies.