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My eight-year-old son, Joel, comes into my office to ask if there's a worse swearword than fuck. "No," I say.

There's a silence. "You're lying," he says.

"There's none worse than fuck," I say.

Joel narrows his eyes. "I know you're lying," he says. He leaves the room.

humor language
november 2009 by ulrichp

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Autocomplete Me
google humor lol
november 2009 by ulrichp

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Fancy Fast Food
humor food funny recipe cooking
july 2009 by ulrichp

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Barrel Monster Bust - June 12, 2009

JUNE 12--A North Carolina man is facing criminal charges for creating an amusing piece of public art from construction barrels.

humor work art construction monster awesome
june 2009 by ulrichp

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Fan death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fan death is a South Korean urban legend which states that an electric fan, if left running overnight in a closed room, can cause the death (by suffocation, poisoning, or hypothermia) of those inside.

humor wtf news funny psychology culture korea wikipedia
june 2009 by ulrichp

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Social Status: The guy who spread Keyboard Cat fever | Technology | Los Angeles Times

On its own, the Keyboard Cat video might elicit a smile and a chuckle. But when the adorable feline pounding its paws on a musical keyboard is preceded by an awkward, pain-inducing video of someone falling down an escalator or screaming at his parents, you have the latest Internet meme.

humor internet video funny cats
june 2009 by ulrichp

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McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Roomba FAQ.

Q: What do I do if I come home and find two Roombas on my sofa, even though I told Roomba no guests after 10? A: Relax. Don't hate the player. Hate the game.

humor gadgets electronics faq
february 2009 by ulrichp

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Adobe UI Gripes

[Someone] moaning about shoddy UI inconsistencies and mistakes in Adobe products and how they get shittier with every release.

humor mac software adobe wtf flash funny web photoshop design lol usability fail
january 2009 by ulrichp

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Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it)

My friend Amanda had never seen a whole Star Wars film. When I asked her if she wanted to watch the original trilogy she said that she would, but that she already knew what happens. So I took out my voice recorder and asked her to start from the top.I then created some very basic animation in Final Cut to go along with her narration. www.fishrockit.com

humor video movies scifi funny web starwars
january 2009 by ulrichp

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mspaint_lolz: IN THEATERS SOON...
humor internet art movies funny twilight
november 2008 by ulrichp

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Onion AV Club: Chuck Klosterman reviews Chinese Democracy

Throughout Chinese Democracy, the most compelling question is never, "What was Axl doing here?" but "What did Axl think he was doing here?"

music writing humor
november 2008 by ulrichp

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Let me google that for you

FINALLY

humor useful tools internet work technology google web funny search
november 2008 by ulrichp

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Jonathan Lee Riches - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jonathan Lee Riches is known for the many lawsuits he has filed in various United States district courts. Riches is incarcerated at Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Williamsburg in Salters, South Carolina, for wire fraud under the terms of a plea bargain. His projected release date is March 23, 2012.

humor wtf literature law
november 2008 by ulrichp

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somehedgehog: Adventuring Party Politics: The Campaign is Getting Ugly

GM: OK, the bugbear attacks you. What do you do? OBAMA: I send one of my 672 henchmen after it. MCCAIN: OK, seriously. Why does he have so many henchmen? I'm a level 72 ranger and he's only a level 8 paladin.

humor games politics rpg funny gaming satire dnd geek
october 2008 by ulrichp

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Hayden Panettiere PSA: Vote for McCain from Hayden Panettiere

He's just like George Bush, but older and with a worse temper.

humor politics video funny satire
october 2008 by ulrichp

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YouTube - Details: Gabe & Max's Guide to Man Style

Our mesh-shirt-wearing man style experts on the four golden rules, er, pillars of looking fine.

video style humor
october 2008 by ulrichp

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MGK Versus His Adolescent Reading Habits
humor writing books
october 2008 by ulrichp

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ABC News: McCain, Obama Trade Campaign Attacks for Late-Night Jokes

But at the dinner, they often took shots at themselves. "If I had to name my greatest strength, I guess it would be my humility. Greatest weakness, it's possible I may be too awesome," Obama said with a wry smile.

politics humor
october 2008 by ulrichp

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Be Not Afraid by Rosecrans Baldwin - The Morning News

Between rescuing Joaquin Phoenix from a car wreck and dodging bullets during an interview, German director Werner Herzog seems to lead a dramatic life. According to his private diaries, says ROSECRANS BALDWIN, we shouldn’t be surprised.

humor art writing amusing film funny satire
october 2008 by ulrichp

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Main Page - Deletionpedia

Where Wikipedia pages deleted for being 'too trivial' go to die... or to live on forever, as it were.

interesting humor internet politics historyweb trivia funny geeky
september 2008 by ulrichp

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Are you an elitist? / 18 revealing ways to know for sure

16. You recognize and appreciate more than 50 percent of the references and enjoy at least a quarter of the featured profiles in the New York Times Arts section. Also, you read the New York Times. Also, you read.

humor religion politics
september 2008 by ulrichp

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Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the earth yet?

The burning question on everyone's mind.

humor news technology science amusing physics space funny seriousbusiness geek
september 2008 by ulrichp

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McCain staffer slams Dungeons and Dragons players - Boing Boing

You know what to do, kids: ROLL FOR INITIATIVE.

humor politics dnd gaming
august 2008 by ulrichp

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Indiana Jones and Nuke the Fridge (kottke.org)

'nuke the fridge': it's cinema's version of 'jumping the shark'

humor interesting internet movies linguistics
june 2008 by ulrichp

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Progressive Boink - the 40 Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings

Jesus Christ, Rob Liefield is terrible.

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june 2008 by ulrichp

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MikeSacks » photos of TV
humor news photography television tv
may 2008 by ulrichp

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Back From Yet Another Globetrotting Adventure, Indiana Jones Checks His Mail and Discovers That His Bid for Tenure Has Been Denied.

Moreover, no one on the committee can identify who or what instilled Dr. Jones with the belief that an archaeologist's tool kit should consist solely of a bullwhip and a revolver.

academia amusing fiction humor movies writing
may 2008 by ulrichp

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They Do It With... - Chez Goodman

Paladins do it good or not at all.

humor sex
april 2008 by ulrichp

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TheStar.com | GTA | Church strips saucy sign
sex religion humor
january 2008 by ulrichp

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thinking with my fingers: Feign death really works

"After playing World of Warcraft, the 12 year old boy knew how to cope when he was attacked by a moose in the forest." He feigned death. See? Videogames lead to creative solutions, too.

animals games geekery humor news mmorpg
december 2007 by ulrichp

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TASK: Shoot yourself in the foot

How to shoot yourself in the foot in multiple programming languages.

geekery programming interesting humor
october 2007 by ulrichp

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Coding Horror: Geek Diet and Exercise Programs

"Software developers aren't typically known for their superior levels of physical fitness. I'm not overweight, exactly, but I don't think I'll be pursuing that dream career in male modelling anytime soon. I charitably call myself an indoor enthusiast."

exercise fitness health humor interesting
october 2007 by ulrichp

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Commenter Business Meeting 2 - CollegeHumor video

What happens if people at a retirement party act like comments on the internet? SPOILER ALERT

humor internet lolcats video
september 2007 by ulrichp

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Shut Up I Hack You

Script kiddies gone wild. Actually pretty hilarious even for the non-techie crowd: watch as a 'hacker' is tricked into aiming his 'attacks' at his own computer.

computers hacks humor internet
august 2007 by ulrichp

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FFXI Forums - "The Mother" of all Booost macros ... - Killing Ifrit

"I failed to capture it in it's entirety but I believe no mortal could do such a thing." Something like a 12 or 13-screen Boost macro. FFXI humor.

humor ffxi wtf
august 2007 by ulrichp

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CRACKED.com - More Accurate Wikipedia Warnings

Fortunately Wikipedia, being dynamic and forward thinking, already has those potential headaches worked out.

humor interesting internet
august 2007 by ulrichp

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Creating a Cute Cat Frenzy - TIME

Time on lolcats: "...the reigning instance of an Internet meme, a running gag that won't stop running but instead reproduces and mutates in the petri dish of the Net's collective imagination."

humor internet lolcats news technology
july 2007 by ulrichp

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This Modern World | Salon Comics

Explaining the mysteries of the Quantum Cheneyverse.

politics comics humor interesting
july 2007 by ulrichp

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Psychology Today: Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature

Every time we fall in love, fight with our spouse, get upset about the influx of immigrants into our country, or go to church, we are, in part, behaving as a human animal with our own unique evolved nature—human nature.

biology science sex health humor news trivia interesting
july 2007 by ulrichp

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LOL Pranks: Optimus Prime is Refused Service at McDonalds, Shows Mercy to Feeble Humans - Gizmodo

Apparently it's against the law to order a fajita as Optimus Prime. Who knew?

food humor toys transformers video wtf
july 2007 by ulrichp

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DS Daily: Please win (no, really) - DS Fanboy

instead, it turns out that part of the game is that sometimes you need to win at Rock, Paper, Scissors ... and sometimes, you need to lose. We can't wait to see that screen. "Please lose!" Gee, thanks. Next you're probably going to tell me that I fail at

ds interesting wtf humor
june 2007 by ulrichp

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Air Guitar Pro makes air guitar slightly less fake - Engadget

If wildly gesticulating to your Pantera records didn't seem "realistic" enough, toymaker Takara Tomy should be able to help.

music interesting humor wishlist
june 2007 by ulrichp

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Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog: I CAN HATH CHEEZBURGER?

LOL VINCIT OMNIA

humor literature lolcats
june 2007 by ulrichp

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Pharyngula: I get email

"The person who sent me this... is also a dinosaur denialist. The fun begins when she tries to explain why dinosaurs don't exist: dinosaurs were faked to justify birth control. ... Just roll with it. Don't try to understand it."

science history wtf interesting humor
june 2007 by ulrichp

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The Google Carpet
art google humor
june 2007 by ulrichp

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Kempa.com: Vinyl Data

Adding digital content to music isn't a new thing - in fact, some musicians added Spectrum ZX code to vinyl recordings! Jawdroppingly weird. Includes some versions ready for emulation.

art computers emulation games geekery hardware history humor interesting music nostalgia programming software technology trivia video videogames todo howto
june 2007 by ulrichp

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Crate Review System

All games contain crates, therefore all games can be judged empirically on those crates.

games humor videogames
june 2007 by ulrichp

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the "ad hominem fallacy" fallacy

"As soon as the suspicion of an insult appears, they summon the angels of ad hominem to smite down their foes, before ascending to argument heaven in a blaze of sanctimonious glory."

humor philosophy logic interesting internet
june 2007 by ulrichp

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byteCoder (a blog by Bill Heyman) » Blog Archive » Xerox 1974: “[Ethernet] would be a failure”

"Here’s a memo from a Xerox PARC (engineer, I presume), Robert Bachrach...suggesting that the Ethernet approach to networking can’t possible meet the necessary requirements..."

history humor interesting internet science networking
june 2007 by ulrichp

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Judge cites 42 Beatles songs to teach beer thief a lesson | the Daily Mail

A judge sentencing a Beatles-loving beer thief quoted 42 of the band’s song titles in his verdict.

music news crime interesting humor
june 2007 by ulrichp

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Hey 'Fuzzy' ... get lost - Dateline Florida

'But that's still no reason to run "Mallard Fillmore" and I really can't believe that I admitted to you that I had anything to do with it.'

comics news interesting humor
june 2007 by ulrichp

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Shovelglove: The Sledgehammer Workout
diy exercise hacks health howto humor interesting productivity sports useful wtf
may 2007 by ulrichp

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Blundering Bush makes ANOTHER gaffe as he winks at the Queen | the Daily Mail

When you've just made it sound like the Queen is more than 200 years old, there may be a few ways of recovering from the gaffe. But turning to her and giving her a sly wink is probably not included in any book of royal etiquette.

news politics wtf humor
may 2007 by ulrichp

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LOLTrek « Live Granades

What would lolcats show if they had a TV channel? Star Trek. Duh. "We Has Tribbles, and Also Troubles."

animals geekery humor internet scifi television
may 2007 by ulrichp

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The Cut-Up Eye

Leonard Richardson's scripts rescramble the Eye of Argon every five minutes, to make a completely NEW piece of ... scifi literature. Read it! Ponder it! Have your head explode from it!

fiction humor writing interesting wtf scifi
may 2007 by ulrichp

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The Eye of Argon by Jim Theis

"The Eye of Argon" was published in 1970 in the journal of the Ozark SF Society, issue 10. Photocopies - invariably with the last page missing - circulated for decades, and it became a regular sf convention challenge to read Jim Theis's mangled prose wit

fiction humor internet literature scifi writing
may 2007 by ulrichp

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Leave It to Beaver: 1958 | Shorpy

A freeze-frame of a letter from an episode of Leave it to Beaver reveals... four paragraphs of mildly amusing filler, and one sentence of actual use. How 'bout that?

history television humor
may 2007 by ulrichp

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I Drew This, Tuesday, May 1, 2007.

Is the US a Christian nation?

humor art interesting comics politics religion
may 2007 by ulrichp

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Capn Crunch's first name revealed -- megnut.com

I won't spoil it for you, but it's -awesome-.

food humor interesting
may 2007 by ulrichp

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SONGS TO WEAR PANTS TO

Andrew makes songs from your instructions. Good Lord, he's pretty good. I've never heard anyone sound alternately like that guy from Sum 41, Claudio Sanchez, and mc chris. The Exploding Dog of music.

humor interesting internet music wtf
april 2007 by ulrichp

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LolCat Builder » Home

Web 2.0 meets cat macros. Enter: the lolcat build(e)r!

web2.0 humor interesting todo
april 2007 by ulrichp

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The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel

Ever wonder how to find a good burrito in New York? The answer: a 42-minute cross-country journey via chord tunnel from Alameda to Weehawken.

engineering fiction food history humor news physics science
april 2007 by ulrichp

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David Hayter chats about MGS4, talks like Snake in podcast :: DESTRUCTOID :: Hardcore video game blog

Big highlight: Hayter poking fun at his character's dramatic interrogatives that have been lampooned since Solid's inception. Metal Gear? Meryl? A Hind D!?!

videogames humor interesting podcast
april 2007 by ulrichp

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Brando's NOTEBOOK MONSTER MENAGERIE (Raaa!)

You may not know it, but deep within your dusty binders and spiral notebooks lurk strange and wonderous creatures!

art education humor interesting
april 2007 by ulrichp

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Programming Blog - Problems & Solutions, Tips & Tricks » Things Computers Can Do in Movies

11. All computer panels operate on thousands of volts and have explosive devices underneath their surface. Malfunctions are indicated by a bright flash of light, a puff of smoke, a shower of sparks and an explosion that causes you to jump backwards.

computers humor movies technology
april 2007 by ulrichp

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The Inbox Of Nardo Pace, The Empire's Worst Engineer

"can u put a knob on my breather apperatis so i can turn down the volume when im in the library or sneakin up on maintenence droids? why did u put a speaker on this thing in the first place lol"

engineering humor writing scifi geekery
april 2007 by ulrichp

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WTFPL - Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License

DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE // TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION // 0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.

humor software opensource programming wtf law
april 2007 by ulrichp

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The Nietzsche Family Circus

The Nietzsche Family Circus pairs a random Family Circus cartoon with a random Friedrich Nietzsche quote.

academia art philosophy comics hacks interesting humor literature toys
april 2007 by ulrichp

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College Football Forum: Female Masturbator Strikes PIKES

Ann Arbor police are searching... for a woman who entered the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity last Thursday...and began to masturbate on a couch.

sex wtf humor college interesting
march 2007 by ulrichp

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Student punished for spaghetti beliefs | Metro.co.uk

"Bryan Killian says that he follows the Pastafarian religion, and that as a crucial part of his faith, he must wear 'full pirate regalia' as prescribed in the holy texts of Pastafarianism."

humor religion education news
march 2007 by ulrichp

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Dear DBA ....

Take a glimpse into the kind of crap I get paid to put up with.

work idiocy database humor
march 2007 by ulrichp

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Dreamless - Best Clients Quotes - Tofslie.com

Actual quotes from clients to web designers from an archived thread from 2000. 'Client: "Well, I don't think we really want it to look too much like a Web site. You know what I mean?"'

humor webdev
march 2007 by ulrichp

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Stunt stood test of time

Alvin 'Shipwreck' Kelly perched atop a pole on top of a hotel on Monmouth Street in Newpot, KY for 100 hours in 1928.

history wtf humor interesting
march 2007 by ulrichp

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Scribd - They didn't study

If you don't study... may as well be a little creative.

education engineering math humor
march 2007 by ulrichp

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BBC NEWS | The Reporters | Robert Peston - Dear Bill Gates (Again)

Vista still sucks: "All of which sounds like good news for you and the IT industry in general. Except that I’m left with the uneasy feeling that I’ve been ever-so-elegantly mugged."

interesting microsoft windows humor
march 2007 by ulrichp

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