Tag: humor
Laughter, The Final Solution
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Tue Mar 18, 2008 at 02:58:06 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Sam Gross is a cartoonist. He seems cut from the same bolt of cloth as Charles Addams or Gary Larson. His métier is to take the ordinary, give it a bizarre twist, but make sure it's funny. Gross' latest effort is one which could hit a raw nerve rather than the funny bone, however. Because, in the mind of at least one book critic, even when the cartoon's drawn by a 74-year-old Jew, not everyone is going to be amused.
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'N Sync Reunites & Releases New Video
Kangaroo.
Posted to Music on Wed Nov 14, 2007 at 04:59:29 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
well not really it is a parody & video remix death metal style - very funny video!
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Dear Daily Princetonian, The Joke's On You
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Tue Jan 23, 2007 at 07:51:00 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Irreverence and wit are normally the hallmark of good, biting humor. But, what happens when the humor is found to be offensive and witless? Such is the spot the campus newspaper The Daily Princetonian finds itself in as an article run in its annual humor issue got on somebody's last nerve.
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Hiccups Cured By Bum Scratching: It's Science!
MayorBob.
Posted to SciTech on Thu Oct 12, 2006 at 11:36:41 AM EST. RSS.
It's that time of year again. No, not North America's version of a world championship baseball tournament. It's time for one of the most esteemed prizes in science. No, not the Nobel Prizes in a couple of scientific disciplines. We're talking a harmonic convergence of highly esteemed and highly entertaining. For the 16th straight year, the Ig Nobel awards were handed out a group of worthy recipients.
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