Placido Polanco Chokes Up All The Way
A bit of baseball humor... see this doctored-photo and headline from the Onion: Placido Polanco Chokes Up All the Way.
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A bit of baseball humor... see this doctored-photo and headline from the Onion: Placido Polanco Chokes Up All the Way.
The classic Muppets character Beaker here does Ode to Joy. There is a lot going on in this video, so you might want to watch it a couple of times. See also Habanera, and Classical Chicken.
Labels: funny
Here are two favorites of mine, Star Trek and Monty Python, in a series of mashups at YouTube. There might be more of these, but I found these three pretty good:
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Here is a clever version of Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First?" routine in the context of a modern technology conversation (thanks to Diana for posting).
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Understatement of the year candidate? This AP news item included the following ridiculous tidbit:
On Thursday, Zimbabwe's central bank unveiled a new half-billion Zimbabwean dollar bank note.
The new bill and three others for 5 billion, 25 billion and 50 billion Zimbabwe dollars, called "special agro" checks intended for purchases and sales involved in farm production, were going into circulation next Tuesday, the central bank said.
Earlier this month, the bank floated the local currency exchange rate through commercial banks, where a single U.S. dollar sold Wednesday for around 240 million Zimbabwe dollars, slightly higher than the dominant black market rate for hard currency.
That change saw prices of goods soar, with unofficial estimates putting annual inflation at more than 700,000 percent.
Official inflation was given in February at 165,000 percent, and no further official figures have been released.
"Prices are now doubling every week instead of every month, and it is hard to see how we can survive to the end of June or how an election will be feasible at all if things continue to deteriorate at this pace," Harare economist John Robertson said.
The central bank said the "agro" checks, similar in appearance to the nation's existing range of bills, will be accepted by retailers and banks up to the end of the year.The previous highest denomination bill was for 250 million Zimbabwe dollars, enough to buy about two loaves of bread.
Labels: economics, funny, international
Literally. There are many videos of this at YouTube... here is one of the best. I like how the darker cat often does a two-leg only approach. When the speed increases, the other one keeps up pretty well for a while.
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Even rather old footage can be resurrected on YouTube. Fox news man Bill O'Reilly might not have thought this footage of him flipping out ever existed, let alone still existed today.
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This YouTube video is pretty funny... a better title of it would have been "The Singing Talents of Beaker". It is only hilarious of course if you remember the nature of the character Beaker from the old Muppets Show.
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Thanks goes to my friend Brandon for linking to a YouTube clip of the classic Yip Yips. Definitely brings back memories from childhood...
The March 2008 edition of Wired as a humorous look at the US Presidential Election come 2024.
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The writers at the Onion couldn't invent a story this odd... well, maybe they could, since they are quite good at what they do. See the AP story "Mexico Abruptly Restricts Car Imports". Basically, Mexico is now only allowing car imports from a single year, 1998. All market interference by governments distort the market, but this is serious arbitrariness and micromanagement. If you live in a border state and have been sitting on a lot of 1998 model cars, you are in luck.
Check out this YouTube video of a Finnish rock group, with Russian backing choir, singing Lynyrd Skynyrd's classic rock hit Sweet Home Alabama. The outfits on the rockers -- shoes, hair, clothes -- is also, um, impressive. I'm not sure what is going on with the women dancing either. Here is the background info posted about this video:
The Leningrad Cowboys is a Finnish rock and roll band famous for its humorous songs and concerts featuring the Soviet Red Army Choir. Currently, the band has eleven Cowboys and two Leningrad Ladies. The songs, all somewhat influenced by polka and progressive rock, and performed in English, have themes such as 'vodka', 'tractors', 'rockets', and 'Genghis Khan', as well as folkloric Russian songs, rock and roll ballads and covers from bands as diverse as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, all with lots of humour.
The Red Army Choir (Choir Aleksandrov) is a performing ensemble that served as the official army choir of the former Soviet Union's Red Army. The choir consists of a male choir, an orchestra, and a dance ensemble. The songs they perform range from Russian folk tunes to Church hymns, operatic arias and popular music.In 1991, The Red Army Choir participated in Roger Waters' The Wall concert celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall. They performed an anti-war song "Bring the Boys Back Home".Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Red Army Choir has continued performing, entertaining audiences both inside and outside Russia.
YouTube provides Star Wars According to a Three Year Old. Pretty cute and funny. At the end we learn that we shouldn't talk back to Darth Vader, because he'll get you!
Check out the YouTube video covering the "you've been traded to Japan" prank on Phillies pitcher Kyle Kendrick. Classic!
This video at YouTube is incredible! I've seen other such cool mob-actions before... I believe this is an instance of a Flash Mob. This would have been great to witness first hand. I especially like the guy on the phone who is complaining that he can't drive through where he needs to go, until they people start moving again and he basically says "oh, nevermind!". Pretty funny...
I find this website both sad and funny -- News From Korean Central News Agency of DPRK. Sad for obvious reasons, but funny because of both the English used and the ridiculous claims made and propaganda used. Many of the stories are a funny read, here is one example: Japan Assailed for Seeking "Triangular Cooperation Mechanism for Pressure". Here is a great segment:
This is, however, nothing but the way of thinking of a bat-blind person who has neither political sense nor judgment. The above-said cooperation mechanism had been sought by its master the U.S. as early as in the 1980s only to meet bitter frustration. It is a ridiculous and foolish daydream for Japan to try to build the above-mentioned mechanism, taking advantage of the changed political situation in south Korea, in a bid to pressurize someone and achieve its sinister political aim. This only betrays Japan's ignorance of the DPRK, diplomatic inability and anachronistic way of thinking.
Labels: funny, international
It is hard to note good bits from The Onion, since the majority of their items are funny and worth reading or hearing. But this one -- The Past is Gone -- really cracked me up. It is from their Weekly Radio Address series, an ongoing riff on President Bush. It starts a little slow, but then it gets going...
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Today I discovered that there is an official website for "Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey", the classic SNL quotations from years past. It has many of the best "Deep Thoughts" available as short multimedia presentations. And of course googling will get you many sites with lengthy lists of "Deep Thoughts" quotes too. Good stuff.
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Or was it lunch? or just tea and biscuits? I am speaking of course of the scene in The Empire Strikes Back, where the door swings open and we see Darth Vader at the head of a table... Han instinctively draws his blaster and fires... Darth absorbs or deflects the shots with his gloved hand and then uses the force to whip Han's blaster out of his hands. We see Stormtroopers and Boba Fett appear, making it clear there is no escape. Darth then says "We would be honored, if you would join us." The treachery of Lando is then clear to Han and Leia.
This is classic. So-called "postmodern art" has its version of the Sokal Affair that struck postmodern writers a decade ago. It seems a two-year old's paintings (sometimes using paint, sometimes using ketchup), along with his mom's over-the-top-but-typical blather as descriptions for each piece, have fooled some "art critics". This is so funny, because it is so pathetic. As Pink Floyd once said, "nearly a laugh, but really a cry."
Not hugely funny, but not bad either. Here is some new Microsoft marketing videos for Windows Home Server. On the left there are four videos, a brief intro and three themed videos. Then on the bottom right check out the fake children's book that explains about home servers -- a clever idea. My favorite line is about the uncle who smells like bark.
Labels: funny, technology
Here is a funny parody of modern day presidential attack ads: an attack ad against German philosopher Immanuel Kant.
Labels: funny, philosophy
I was pleased to learn (thanks Stu Bushman) that many of the people behind MST3K have returned to what made they successful in the 1990s: making funny comments during movies. I assume most readers of this blog will remember the wonderful TV series Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (see wikipedia entry), which ran for many years on Comedy Central and then the Sci-Fi network, where a human and two robots appeared as wise-cracking sillohuettes overlayed on really bad movies mostly from the 1950s-1970s. It was one of my favorite shows during my college years in the early 90s, and I continued to enjoy it until it was finally cancelled in 1999.
Labels: entertainment, funny, movies
Even though I have it memorized by now, I still laugh when I hear Abbott and Costello's famous "Who's on first?" routine. But I was delighted to discover a version that merges the audio of this routine with video clip footage of Yoda and a lesser Star Wars character. Although its only a small part of the routine, its enough.
This past Sunday's USA Weekend magazine had a pretty funny piece called "Bad rap? Hire a publicist!" It presents how a modern day publicist might try to put a good face on the behavior of Cleopatra, Genghis Khan, Ivan the Terrible, King Henry VIII, and John Wilkes Booth.
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Here is an all-time classic Monty-Python Bit, German Philosophers vs. Greek Philosophers in soccer/football. This one gets me laughing everytime, and there are so many great inside jokes, I catch something new each time I see it. This version is a bit longer than others I've seen in the past, so I'm glad to have found the link (thanks to Brandon Heffernan for that!).
Labels: funny, philosophy
From the September 4, 2007 issue of PC Magazine we get a hilarious sidebar "The 6 Most Unfortunate Web Domain Names":
Labels: funny, technology
My friend Steve Davala linked to a great fake-trailer for the classic horror movie, The Shining. Here it is at YouTube... hilarious.
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No, its not at all what it sounds like. Take a look at some of the cartoons from "Exploding Dog". This creator has two interesting things going with these cartoons. First, his illustration style is so simplistic, it can be quite emotionally provoking (sometimes). Second, he creates his cartoons based on single phrases or sentences that people submit to him as ideas. I don't like all of what he has come up with, but I found some of them to be interesting.
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Here is a funny YouTube video that rips on Windows Vista. Some clever jabs there. I have one computer with Vista, and don't have any major gripes actually. But I still found this video kinda funny.
Labels: funny, technology
I enjoyed this writeup that analyzing the figures of speech of Homer Simpson. (Thanks to GeekPress for the link.)
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I used to watch MXC semi-regularly. That is the crazy Japanese physical-stunts show, where people often have some pretty bad falls. The version we get here in America is re-dubbed with narration of two guys with American voices, and much of their play-by-play is pretty funny -- on the show, sometimes their storylines about the contestants are even funnier than what the participants are doing. But the best are the falls... and here is a video with 25 of the all-time best.
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Here is a quick YouTube video of sports bloopers that I mostly hadn't seen before. The last one of course, who hasn't seen that? But the others were new for me... the pole-vaulting one is deceptive, until you see it the second time in slow motion.
Here is another in my series of classic humor bits from the Internet (here is Part 15), which I'm posting as I clean out my old Humor email box. This item dates back to 2001. These were said to be from a book called "Disorder in the Court".
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See this series of photos for some sadly obese pets. The photos made me laugh in amazement, but really these are sad to see. Yikes...
I was recently poking around YouTube and found the many great James Randi video clips where he debunks and shows to be frauds various supposed psychics and other mystics. Here are some worth seeing:
Here is a funny blog, The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks. Some really funny examples given here, and the commentary on them is good too. And this blog seems to be getting an incredible number of submissions! (Thanks to GeekPress for the link.)
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This is a great comic for Firefly fans. (Thanks to Rational Jenn for the link.)
Labels: entertainment, funny
Does anyone else get a laugh when they hear a weather-person use the phrase "cone of uncertainty" to describe a hurricane's range of potential paths? I looked Cone of Uncertainty up on Wikipedia, and -- no surprise -- they have an entry. It didn't mention its application in this weather context, but rather discussed what is claimed to be the phrase's earliest use in project management.
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I found Joel Stein's opinion piece "The Impossible Dream" to be pretty funny. He had a grand plan to install a urinal in his home, and he describes his research into this idea. (Thanks to GeekPress for the link.)
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Along the lines of various other conspiracy theories out there, this one about the Death Star from the first Star Wars movie is hilarious. (Thanks to GeekPress for this.)