Archives: 'humour'

The Zinedine Zidane affair, and could be said for many things right now…
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That would be Linux* of course.
Tristan at ShellyTheRepublican.com explains :
“Like all the greatest American engineering, it’s an example of innovation that makes a growing group of European and Chinese hackers jealous. They hate our lead in computing technology and will stop at nothing until they have control of all of our computers.”
And continues thus :
“And [...]

 
“The Fact that our economical models at The Fed, the best in the world, have been wrong for fourteen straight quarters, does not mean they will not be right in the fifteenth quarter.”
It was with a certain amount of dismay that I learned of the news that former US Central Bank chief Alan Greenspan is [...]

For those of you who have ever played one of those text based RPGs/Adventure games of yester-year Defective Yeti has written an excellent satire on the progress of the most powerful man in the world :
Iraqi Invasion: A Text Misadventure
The rest of you eye-candy monkeys will just have to surf-off.

adopt your own virtual pet!

Are you tired of reading the news? Are you traumatized by man’s inhumanity? Are you depressed by the mundane futility of existence? Come and push my pet Penguin, you’ll feel better in no time.

I have to hand it to them, when it comes to political irony the Americans have a distinctive style.

This year’s good stick award for conspicuous ability to take a joke at your own expense goes to Baywatch hunk David Hasselhoff, the joke that’s been doing the rounds goes like this :
David Hasselhoff calls his agent and demands, “I want everyone to call me The Hoff from now on.”
 
“Sure! No hassle.” His agent replies.
Most [...]

There is an article in the news that claims an Englishman has cured himself of the HIV virus, apparently with his own immune system. If true this will be a remarkable step forward in the global fight against the disease. Another first for the British perhaps?

“It’s just a flesh-wound.”

This is a good radio joke played by Tim Shaw on some unsuspecting chap at 03:00 am one morning. Its quite amazing how polite the fellow remains for most of the stunt…

Now I do realize that some restaurants are just not supposed to be gastronomic Meccas but cater to that simple straightforward requirement that you sometimes have for something more utilitarian and affordable. Affordable is on my agenda these days (very much so) so enticed by the offer of a buy-one-get-one-free offer at the new TGI [...]

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The New York Times Video - The iPod Flea
Apple have established a certain religious fervour in their techno-loving fans for everything Apple as they re-vamp the portable music player market from where the Sony Walkman dropped the proverbial ball.
This amusing spoof ad video hits the mark quite nicely.