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Category Archives: humour
Funniest Onion video ever? Report on Franz Kafka International Airport…
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Three crap jokes…
“We’d like to make a pun about herbs, or fish, but this is neither the thyme nor the plaice.” A skeleton walks into a bar and says to the bartender “I’d like a pint and a mop.” People accuse … Continue reading
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An atheistmas joke…
The matron of a big Southern spread calls the local military base to send some soldiers for her next ball. “No Jews please.” When the trucks arrive out come twenty strapping African Americans. Horrified the woman calls the base: “There … Continue reading
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Bill Maher on Christians and the whacking of Osama. Laugh. Out. Loud. Funny
No words, no words…
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New scrabble-tastic words!
From my reading of Disgrace by JM Coetzee, the journal Nature and a couple of other things. Definitions by wikipedia, naturally. I think you can’t play frumious and get away with it. The others? Fill your boots!! Sodality In Christian … Continue reading
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Dum Dumb, Dum DUMB: Jaws, T800s and Macbeth
Or “Wilfully “perverse” readings” Three great examples of the humour to be had at deliberate mis-reading. This review of “Jaws” This mash-up of “Terminator” as a RomCom <iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/OfwQKapDMws?rel=0″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen> And James Thurber’s “Macbeth Murder Mystery“
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Your handy diaspora article checklist, or “Games academics play”
Oh, such cynicism in one so young old….
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Isn’t it ironic?
No squib, snark or skewer today. Just wanted to post this awesome image for use by all and sundry. Normal service resumes tmrw.
Proper Tea is theft…
Is not the punchline to this joke. Let me just go and watch some roaches climb the wall…
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