Once more with feeling

(lyrics NSFW)

Hilarity!

Make sure you watch the second half

Fuck Christmas

Today is the first day of Advent, and xmas decorations and carols have been infesting public space for a month already.

So here's a musical number from the great Eric Idle. The video is irrelevant (it's the only way I could embed it) and the audio is just as obscene as my subject line.

Eric Idle - Fuck Christmas
by sweetanie

The internet just might be complete

Check out the third comment here.

Judith Martin, who writes Miss Manners, likes Eddie Izzard and watches him on YouTube.

Dear Internet: Can you top that?

Hilarity for a lazy Sunday

Funny warning signs

Best fanfic rant ever

Read this now. Seriously. Even if you aren't into fanfic. Really.

I can't even get down to the gym!

My client reserves the right to moan slightly

Weirdest disclaimer ever

The following is copy-pasted direction from the terms and conditions of the itunes software update:

THE APPLE SOFTWARE IS NOT INTENDED FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES, AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS, LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES OR OTHER EQUIPMENT IN WHICH THE FAILURE OF THE APPLE SOFTWARE COULD LEAD TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, OR SEVERE PHYSICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE.

Damn, there goes my plan to build an itunes-powered nuclear spacecraft!

The problem with good ventriloquism

I'm not hugely into ventriloquism, but when I do enjoy ventriloquism I tend to forget that it's ventriloquism and just enjoy the humour. The problem with this is that I don't appreciate the ventriloquist's skill. For example, they just showed this on TV (it's still on the Comedy Network if you're reading right now and will be on Comedy West again in three hours):



At about 1:30, where they start doing the pronunciation bit, that's a ventriloquism trick! The ventriloquist is showing off that he can do something technically difficult. But we don't even notice, because we're too busy being entertained.

Best illustration ever

Check out the illustration at the top right!

(The article is nothing new, I just like the illustration.)

Today is International Translation Day

So here's Eddie Izzard on learning French:



Monty Python's Italian lesson:



Monty Python's Latin lesson:

Comedy in lieu of content

I got nothing today. I've been working on updating my voter's resources post (should be up within the next couple of days) and putting together my 10 to the 100 submissions, and suddenly it's Sunday and it's dark out and I haven't even read the paper yet and I'm way behind on housework.

So here's the Kids in the Hall on the importance of keeping on top of your life:

We can retire the SENTENCE game now

In my first year linguistics class, the prof mentioned in passing that you might say "I heard a new word today," but you'd never say "I heard a new sentence today." (She was making some point, I forget what it was.)

We glommed onto that and started pointing out every time someone says a sentence that we have reason to believe has never been uttered before, usually by shouting "SENTENCE!" at it.

But we can retire now. Stephen Fry has us all beat. (And I want to be in the room when this was written):



Added bonus: this is so gay!

Life imitates Simpsons

From the Simpsons episode The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and her Homer:

(Homer drives home in a new red pickup.)
Marge: Homer! Where did you get that truck?
Homer: Uhhh, it fell off a truck! You know, a truck truck!
(An airhorn blasts and Bart rolls up at the wheel of an eighteen-wheeler transporting pickup trucks).
Lisa: Where'd you get that?
Bart: It fell off a truck-truck truck.
(Another airhorn, and a truck-truck truck drives past, carrying several eighteen-wheelers loaded with pickups).

Found on Fail Blog, a truck truck truck truck.

Silliness

Most inadvertently hilarious thing ever of the day

Scroll down to 4.2.2.8

Apparently, as long as you follow packaging guidelines, you can send the following in the mail:

- Live day-old chicks (but only day-old?)
- Live small cold-blooded animals (except snakes, turtles, baby alligators, caimans, or anything that emits "obnoxious odours"
- Parasites, leeches, insects, and bees (as long as they are free of disease, which raises the question of how to tell if an insect has a disease). And queen bees are allowed to travel with a maximum of eight attendants.

Money, keys, comb, wallet, lighter, hankie, pens, cigarettes, contraceptives, vaseline, whips, chains, whistles, dildos and a book

Another stupid thing I can't stop laughing at

FAIL!

An incredibly stupid thing I can't stop laughing at

I just keep hitting refresh, I can't stop!

You're doing it wrong!