Category: Humour

Some Muslims are soo predictable… Jesus clearly agrees with Brendan Behan that there’s no such thing as bad publicity. Still, I’m not sure that Sir Salman would appreciate the kicker in Brendan’s aphorism…

Leonard Bernstein is either spinning in his grave or laughing his rocks off.

 

I know just how the man in the black hat feels…

 

 

Living with a dog can prove stressful at times. Thankfully, ours is so much better behaved. At least, so far. I think.

It seems such a simple medical question, but…

Yes, it’s long past time that we had a software update…

The names of the seven dwarfs after a course of drug treatments…

I think this is one of the finest mashups that I have ever seen. Resonance on sooo many levels…

 

 

 

Hat tip to Richard Dawkins Net for the link.

I’m pretty sure I’ve blogged about this before, but it’s just been referred to over on the New Humanists’ Blog, so I thought that was excuse enough to put it up again.

 

 

 

It’s by Adam Buxton, and I think it illustrates how we humans love ritual, whatever the background…

…Who needs enemies? That Mo, eh? What a card he is! Another brilliant episode in the ongoing story of religious folk.

Although Monkey Fluids has a pretty good one to begin with…

 

(hat tip to Pharyngula for the link)

Things I have never done – number one in an occasional series.

Mr. deity and Lucy discover that a clerical error has been made…

 

 

Looks like the barmaid has cut Jesus off at the knees again…

…is Science. MC Hawking lays it on the line.

 

 

 

(hat tip to Richard Dawkins Net)

Via Gelert’s Experiment in Normality, I am gladly reminded of two books from my childhood and currently snuggled together in the library: Down With Skool and How To Be Topp, both written by Geoffrey Willans and illustrated by Ronald Searle. Both long out of print, but they have been reissued as a compendium. There’s even a short animation using the original Searle illustrations from Down With Skool:

 

 

Sometimes, words evoke quite a different image from what is intended…

 

 

This, I feel sure, is a science project that I will not be attempting. The thought of the hacksaw at the end is enough to put me off.

 

(hat tip to Pharyngula)

Thanks to Brent Rasmussen, over at Unscrewing the Inscrutable, I’ve now discovered mr. deity. It raises a smile or three with me, anyway, and Jesus sure is cute.

The boys get the hook. They’re clearly not as good as Donnie Davies