Category: Humour

I never seem to get these gentlemen on the doorstep – it’s always the other kind…

This segue into a parallel universe is not just perverse, but has the whiff of greatness about it. Away with Britney Spears – give me Stephen Hawking in compromising situations! But I have to concede that the finishing touch is the rebranding of Michio Kaku as Mucho Kaka. I’ve often thought the same, myself. Simply brilliant.

 

(hat tip to PZ Myers)

And you thought Goat-dressing was bizarre? Meet Whiplash. I’m still trying to digest the semiotics.

Another quiz, which, with its nod to 2001, I simply had to do:

 

OnePlusYou Quizzes and Widgets 

 

One of the questions asks you to classify yourself into an age group. It came home to me that I can no longer think of myself as "middle-aged", but now should start thinking of myself as being in the "elderly" grouping. Bugger.

 

(hat tip to Obscene Desserts for the link)

An example of David Shenton’s comic strip that raised a wry smile with me: Out and Proud.

 

…or why Jesus is not a logical thinker.

I know I’m very late with this, but I didn’t get around to blogging about it at the time: One of the Beeb’s better April Fool’s jokes…

 

 

 

And here’s how it was done.

I’ve no idea who this Harry Phibbs character is (other than apparently he’s a journalist and a Conservative Counciller – say no more), but he clearly has had a sense of humour bypass. Spitting Image was not funny? Dunno what parallel universe you hail from Harry, but from where I come from it was one of the brighter rays in the dark days of Thatcher and Reagan. It helped keep some of us sane. If you didn’t laugh, you would have cried at what was being done to society.

Fucking brilliant – nothing else comes close.

 

     

 

Oh, and there’s a high resolution version available via BitTorrent. The video has sparked off enormous discussion on both Pharyngula and Richard Dawkins Net over whether this is pro science or not. Frankly, I don’t care if it was produced by a bunch of creationists – it’s very funny, and if we can’t laugh at ourselves, then we’re all doomed.

 

Update: Apparently, the video was made by Michael Edmondson at the behest of the Expelled producers (aka as a bunch of creationists). Well, they may be a bunch of wankers, but Michael made a piece of art. Kudos to him, it’s still brilliant.

 

   

 

Update 2: and here’s more of the story behind the making of the video.

Well, it makes a change from a teddy bear.

Having mentioned one of my all-time favourite films, 2001: A Space Odyssey, over the weekend, I thought you might be interested in this. It’s 2001 condensed down to five seconds, for the benefit of those with an impaired attention span…

 

   

 

The trouble is, it only really makes sense if you’ve seen the original…

(hat tip to Phil, over at Bad Astronomer)

The barmaid may be right about the purpose of having a debate, but the "truth" lies elesewhere…

Lucy is not happy with Mr. Deity. I love the line about the nipples.

Well, it could have been worse…

 

 

Via archaeoastronomy, I’ve only just heard this interview with Sir Arthur Greeb-Streebling concerning the remains of Christ. Brilliant stuff – I must catch the other interviews that he gave Chris Morris back in 1994.

 

   

…the thinking behind homeopathy and other woo were to be applied in the aviation industry? Then we might end up with something like this wry vision of Alternative Flight. Worth reading.

Only the pure in mind and the truly innocent will be able to look at this and not go: WTF?!

As I said a couple of days ago, pot, kettle, black.

…that’s the quite brilliant opening of Marina Hyde’s Lost in Showbiz piece in The Guardian today. Considering that she’s dealing with events concerning Robbie Williams and David Icke, it seems a fair summing up.

Mr. Deity and the Murder. Larry and Jesus find out it’s just a game between Lucy and Mr. D…