In my diary below, I have three sources with three things each (which is a total of nine) and the tenth is a thing that links to a list of nine things. So maybe it’s really a total of 18. It’s either ten things or eighteen.
Anyway, here’s a list of some pretty fucking funny shit that makes me laugh.
Funny Shit from The Onion
The Onion is a consistently funny website. If you have a political bone in your body, you’ll laugh at the headlines below. You can even click on the links to read the stories:
- Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be
- Libertarian Reluctantly Calls Fire Department
- Candidate May Have Lied About Heroic Death In Vietnam
Funny Shit from YouTube
First, the laughing baby, and his dad, who are both utterly amused by ripping a piece of paper. Me too:
Second, the cat video. A friend sent me this on Facebook. It’s called "Probably the Funniest Cat Video You’ll Ever See." It’s hilarious, especially if you’ve ever been owned by a cat:
Third, an adult human. Her name is Maria Bamford. She’s a comedian of comedy, talking about working in an office. One of the funniest stand-up comics of all time.
Funny Shit from Wikipedia
I ran across this on Wikipedia: Wronger than Wrong, which led me to Not Even Wrong, which led me to a Scientific American article, Wronger Than Wrong and then to an article from The Guardian, Not Even Wrong.
The funny thing is that a statement like "All human beings have an immortal soul," isn’t right or wrong, it’s not even wrong. There’s no way to test if it’s true or false. Another example of something that’s not even wrong is this: "The universe was created by an intelligent being." What scientific evidence would count as proving or disproving this statement? How would you test the truth or falsity of this statement? You can’t say it’s right and you can’t say it’s wrong (based on human reasoning). It’s not true or false, it’s not even wrong.
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Another funny thing from Wikipedia: ID-Ten-T Error. If you spell it out, ID10T looks like "IDIOT." Another version is PEBKAC ("Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair" – or in other words, the human being is the problem).
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And here’s my favorite discovery from Wikipedia: Dwile Flonking.
The pastime of Dwile Flonking involves two teams, each taking a turn to dance around the other while attempting to avoid a beer-soaked dwile (cloth) thrown by the non-dancing team.[1]
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A 'dull witted person' is chosen as the referee or 'jobanowl' and the two teams decide who flonks first by tossing a sugar beet. The game begins when the jobanowl shouts "Here y'go t'gither!"
The non-flonking team joins hands and dances in a circle around a member of the flonking team, a practice known as 'girting'. The flonker dips his dwile-tipped 'driveller' (a pole 2–3 ft long and made from hazel or yew) into a bucket of beer, then spins around in the opposite direction to the girters and flonks his dwile at them.
If the dwile misses completely it is known as a 'swadger' or a 'swage'. When this happens the flonker must drink the contents of an ale-filled 'gazunder' (chamber pot ('goes-under' the bed)) before the wet dwile has passed from hand to hand along the line of now non-girting girters chanting the ancient ceremonial mantra of "pot pot pot".
A full game comprises four 'snurds', each snurd being one team taking a turn at girting. The jobanowl adds interest and difficulty to the game by randomly switching the direction of rotation, and will levy drinking penalties on any player found not taking the game seriously enough.
And now, #10 (which is actually nine more):
Funny Shit from Cracked.com
Letterman’s 9 Most Hilariously Awkward Moments, which includes videos of:
- Richard Simmons
- Bill O’Reilly
- Michael Richards (Kramer from "Seinfeld," after he used the n-word)
- Paris Hilton (after she got out of jail)
- John McCain (after he used a lame excuse to not appear on Letterman)
- Harmony Korine
- Harvey Pekar
- Madonna
- Crispin Glover
Each one is a train wreck of an interview, in its own unique I-can’t-stop-watching way.
That’s the end of my list.