After college we lived in a group house with a person who would not communicate with his housemates except through terse notes left on the communal refrigerator. In these notes he’d detail the physical harm he’d inflect upon anyone who even thought about eating his tuna sandwich. He’d write down the proper pot cleaning techniques for the person he felt failed to adequately do that job. After a house dinner party that was too loud for his taste he left a note on the refrigerator listing the various sedatives that he insisted be served to all house guests prior to any future dinner party.
Though it was not at all his intention, we remember this former housemate’s passive aggressive musings fondly. They were so ridiculous, so over-the-top, that they were funny. And so it is with the notes archived by the website Passive Aggressive Notes.
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The best cartoons are no longer in the newspaper. They are online. Exhibit 1: xkcd.
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In addition to being used to relay the exact words from another source, quotation marks can be used to convey misnomers and denote inaccuracies. If you write Her shirt looks interesting then that may be taken at face value. Her shirt looks “interesting” probably means that her shirt was, in fact, butt ugly. Though even more insulting would be Her “shirt” look interesting, indicating that what she was wearing could hardly qualify as a shirt at all.
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It is almost never funny to talk about why something is funny. Except at BizarroBlog. Here Dan Piraro, cartoonist for the Bizarro comic strip series, writes about his cartoons, the inspiration behind them, and some of the hate mail he receives. Please enjoy responsibly.
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You might find it a little scary to imagine what your yearbook photo would look like if you were in the Class of 1952, or 1974, or 1990. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t fun to see how other people would look. Yearbook Yourself is a website that let’s you upload anyone’s pic and gander at their theoretical yearbook photo. The hard part is finding a good photo — you need one in which the subject is looking straight at the camera without anything obstructing the face. So, if your photo victim has bangs or is wearing glasses you are out of luck. Once the photo is uploaded simply resize it, make some adjustments, click on the class year you want to see and voila! Not useful, perhaps, but lots of fun.
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For another website like Yearbook Yourself check out our review of Simpsonize Me and BeFunky.
See below for more example photos:
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Who would have thought that cakes could be so funny?! This genius idea for a blog looks at ill-conceived baked items. The cake photos are humorous but it is the stories people write about each cake that had us laughing out loud. (And Spot Cool Stuff does not take to bellowing laughs lightly). Check out some of the cake photos below . . .
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We suspect that you’ve never wondered how to quantify the exact side effects of sword swallowing. What is surprising is that some one else has. And that they’ve written a paper on the subject. (Conclusion: “Sword swallowers run a higher risk of injury when they are distracted . . .”). Improbable Research — and its print publication The Annals of Improbable Research — catalog scientific research being conducted into areas that we wouldn’t think any self-respecting scientist would go near. The site navigation is a little confusion to us; if you are just browsing you’d do well to start with the posts about the lg Nobel (a sort of unofficial Nobel prize for improbable research). And please, do not read this site and sword swallow at the same time.
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