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Written By: Gary on July 2, 2009 No Comments

If the internet were portrayed as a musical, this could be it.

Here’s the direct link to the video.

Found here at But You’re A Girl.

Written By: Gary on June 20, 2009 No Comments
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If you’re not a Watchmen fan you probably won’t find it very funny.

Here’s the direct link to Dr. Manhattan’s Pants.

Written By: Gary on March 13, 2009 No Comments
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Totally funny spoof of Malin Akerman’s roommate giving tours of their apartment (while she sleeps).

Here’s the direct link to the Watchmen Tour with Malin Akerman at Funny or Die.

Written By: Gary on March 3, 2009 One Comment

We don’t get another Square Root Day for another 7 years, so be sure to celebrate wisely.

Square Root Day

Today is 3/3/09 and 3 x 3 = 9 or more accurately (for today) the square root of 9 is 3. And the beauty of it is that it’s 3/3/09 no matter if you do day/month/year or month/day/year so it works for people all over the world…

Written By: Gary on February 28, 2009 No Comments

Louis CK does a routine on Conan on why we live in the best times ever! And why we are all spoiled brats. I have no idea who this philosopher comedian is, I don’t think I’ve seen him before.

You only have to was the first 60 seconds (the good stuff starts at 30). I say that because you’ll be hooked by then and watch the rest (because it just gets better).

The direct link.

Found at EverydayGoddess.

Written By: Gary on February 14, 2009 No Comments

Here’s a Valentine for all of you!

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A Sierpinski fractal Triangle diagram but with hearts (from xkcd). It’s cute if you ‘get it’.

Written By: Gary on February 9, 2009 No Comments

Historic Blockbuster Store Offers Glimpse Of How Movies Were Rented In The Past. A historical “field trip” on the way to rent videos in the past.

Here’s the direct link.

Written By: Gary on February 2, 2009 No Comments
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Another great venn diagram from indexed.


Indexed Jessica Hagy
And be sure to check out Jessica’s Indexed Book.

 

 

Written By: Gary on January 16, 2009 One Comment
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It’s totally silly, but I thought it was cute (and it’s making the rounds).


Found at Karen’s and eclecticism (within seconds of seeing it at the other place). Here’s the direct link.

It’s not as cute as my previously mentioned “Star Was as told by a 3 year old“, but how could it be?

Written By: Gary on January 5, 2009 No Comments
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I love Indexed! It took me a second to get this one…

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Yesterday’s was good too, she drew the graph and had the readers label the data points!

Jessica has a whole book of these called indexed (of course).

Written By: Gary on December 1, 2008 One Comment

I found this over at MacRumors. It’s the Simpsons at the “mApple” Store. The more you know about Apple the more inside jokes you might catch (including a poke at a 20 year old commercial).

Direct link to the mApple Simpsons video.

Written By: Gary on October 30, 2008 One Comment

Thisisindexed-Card1882-380X228I usually enjoy Indexed, a site where Jessica creates simple Venn diagrams or graphs that are humorous and/or have double meanings.

Today’s was funny so I thought it was a good time to add them to my From My Feed Reader list (while slightly sticking to my list my political sites first theme).

She’s also released a book called Indexed with new “cards” and best of material in it.

So I’ve been looking for some high quality footage of the Spaghetti Harvest footage for years, this still isn’t that great but it’s completely watchable (previously all I could find was some really crummy footage on the BBC site).

I saw it as a child, a local theater generally ran mini-documentaries (skiing, skateboarding, car building, etc.) instead of cartoons before a movie, and I’ve always remembered it. I knew it was a joke but it was totally deadpan; I’m sure to this day some people think that spaghetti grows on trees. Most people don’t even believe me when I say that there is a such a mini-documentary.

It wasn’t until years later I learned it was part of a (normally serious) BBC show they showed on April 1st, 1957 (which upset some people). It’s believed to be one of the first times television was used for a April Fools Joke. A lot detailed history, including the text of the narration, from the Hoaxapedia Article Swiss “Spaghetti Harvest”.

Direct link to the Spaghetti Harvest YouTube video (in case my imbedded footage doesn’t work). I finally found this since I saw someone stumble onto my site looking for info on it and decided to Google it again. But I’m still looking for a higher quality copy if anyone finds one on-line or knows where I can purchase it.

Written By: Gary on September 22, 2008 2 Comments

StormtrooperI love this!!!

Of all the “these aren’t the ‘droids you’re looking for” jokes / spoofs / parodies I think this is the simplest funniest one I’ve ever seen. I got this off PhotoBucket after spotting it on someone’s MySpace page.

If you don’t understand it, it’s a popular reference from the first (4th) Star Wars movie…

Written By: Gary on August 7, 2008 No Comments
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I thought this was hysterical. I think I saw it in the movie theatre once before…

Here’s the direct link to Cell Phone Karma at YouTube

Have you seen my news coverage yet?!? I’m so excited!!!

If the video doesn’t start, click the image once the video finishes loading.

Or go straight to http://GaryForPresident.com/

Written By: Gary on May 25, 2008 No Comments
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Overheard from two old guys at the next table:

When you see a hearse heading towards the cemetery
you don’t ever see an armored car following behind it!

Spend it now becuase you can’t take it with you!

I got a chuckle out of that…

Written By: Gary on April 16, 2008 No Comments
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Jill Twiss always makes me laugh. Lately she’s had a lot of great posts so check out her site, in particular I really liked her recent Google thinks I’m a terrible person post….

Written By: Gary on March 20, 2008 2 Comments

This is a great parody of “Rock Band” sung to the tune of “Roxanne”.

Found at nehatiwari.com after catching her segment on PopSiren. A Revision3.com production.

Written By: Gary on February 24, 2008 2 Comments

If this isn’t the cutest review of episode 4 that you’ve ever seen…

I’m sure a few parts were re-shot, but it’s adorable…

Here’s another cute kid video

Written By: Gary on January 31, 2008 3 Comments

If you’ve ever helped anyone with a computer you’ll love this! This is can also be referred to as “The Medieval Helpdesk“.

This is in Norwegian, so you can probably turn the volume down, but it’s subtitled. I just watched this with a bunch of technology directors and we were all laughing out loud.

Written By: Gary on January 27, 2008 2 Comments
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Why is Doing Taxes like Having An Orgasm…?Because while I can do it myself, I’d much rather have someone else do it for me!

Written By: Gary on January 26, 2008 No Comments

This is so cool! An orchestra composed of fresh vegetables for instruments!! They show the shopping, the making and the playing…


I found this over at Mrs. Who’s blog.

Hippo4Chrsitmas“I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” is one of my favorite songs. And that’s what I got! As I present I got a certificate that I’ve adopted a Hippo at the Detroit Zoo. I’ve got a Hippo, a certificate and background (see the photo).

I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas is a Christmas novelty song written by John Coctoasten and performed by Gayla Peevey (10 or 11 years old at the time) in 1953. Hippo1953You can listen here or at the iTunes music store.

This is a favorite Christmas song of mine and I remember it being on a holiday Mix tape that Jim (a co-worker) made one year. It was a few years before it got re-popularized about 10 years ago (maybe from an Ally McBeal episode).

Plus, it includes a trip to the zoo, which (once I go) crosses another item off my 101 in 1001 list

Written By: Gary on September 30, 2007 4 Comments
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I thought this was hysterical!!!!
I stole this from Jodi at faster pussycat… type! type!.

Written By: Gary on September 23, 2007 One Comment
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It’s only 4 seconds so give it a look see…

Click here if it doesn’t play….

Written By: Gary on August 21, 2007 No Comments

Hint – It’s an anagram. And it’s cute (and geeky), so don’t watch it if that doesn’t appeal to you…

My worry would be what if you didn’t get the answer you wanted…“Serge Gandaora”, the make believe artist, is actually another anagram – “George and Sara”

Written By: Gary on May 9, 2007 No Comments
Categories: [funny, people, television] / Tags: [, , ]

I thought this was funny. I usually ignore these but I clicked this one…

It was titled Funny Father Daughter Dance “A Wonderful White Wedding”. It takes a minute to get to the good part but it’s definitely different for a wedding.

On a (completely unrelated) side note Wedding Crashers is a kinda funny candid camera show on Monday Nights. You need to fast forward through the talking parts but the practical jokes are pretty good. If you’ve only seen it this week, try it again this weeks episode was kinda weak…

Written By: Gary on February 19, 2007 One Comment
Categories: [funny, quotes] / Tags: [, ]

HA! Never heard that one before!!!!

“The early bird may get the worm,
but the second mouse gets the cheese”
– Wendy’s MySpace Page

I Googled it and found all sorts of references but didn’t see an original source.

Written By: Gary on January 21, 2007 No Comments
Categories: [blogging, funny, general] / Tags: [, ]

I saw this on Google and thought it was pretty funny, so I’m sharing it with you…
What I thought was extra strange was Google doesn’t seem to have a decent way to share the code as easily as YouTube does. So I ended up getting it from YouTube instead. Google will post directly to Blogger, TypePad, MySpace or LiveJournal (and you need to give them your password!) but YouTube just gives me a line of code to past on my site…

Written By: Gary on December 3, 2006 No Comments
Categories: [Apple, funny, television] / Tags: []

I’m not sure if this was a recent episode but I just saw this Wired post with screen captures and thought it was pretty funny!

Written By: Gary on November 20, 2006 One Comment
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Stolen from Dean’s World.

I laughed so hard when I watched this the waitress had to come see what was so funny.

Written By: Gary on November 8, 2006 2 Comments
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I liked this

Plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.
- Winston Churchill

I stole this from Sizzle’s


It reminds me of

Man Plans… God laughs…

But I’m not sure who said it. Einstein?

Written By: Gary on October 19, 2006 No Comments
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I’m sure they thought it would look cool to film their buddy doing this…

Posted by Jon


I hope they don’t show the video to the insurance company…

Written By: Gary on October 11, 2006 No Comments
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So it’s been a while since I’ve been to McSweeney’s Internet Tendency’s (they make up funny lists). So here’s a few good ones:

  • Ikea Product or Lord of the Rings Character?
  • Some of Dan Brown’s Works in Progress.
  • HAL’s Comments While Trapped on a Desert Island, and Your Name Is Dave.
  • Failed NASA Space Programs.

    I’ve pointed out some McSweeney’s highlights in the past…

  • Written By: Gary on October 1, 2006 No Comments
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    So Weird Al has a new video for his song called White And Nerdy from his new album Straight Outta Lynwood. If you’re into science, computers and other dorky stuff, I hope you can laugh at yourself when you watch this one

    Written By: Gary on September 30, 2006 One Comment
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    So have you seen the guy do the Magic Quarter Trick?
    I don’t post many YouTube type things but this one needed to be shared…

    From Don’t Forward.

    Written By: Gary on May 10, 2006 One Comment

    ExitheiroglyphicsSo when I was in one of the hotels in Egypt I saw this “hieroglyphic” sign and it struck me as funny so I took a photo of it.

    Written By: Gary on April 12, 2006 3 Comments
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    Just had to try this since all the cool kids are doing embedded links like this to YouTube:
    And yes it’s totally stupid, but still, I laughed pretty hard when I watched it…

    Found at Nicole’s.


    YeahtoastI promise any future links to YouTube will not be this huge ugly embedded display. It’ll be a little link like this or an embedded image like on the right…

    Written By: Gary on March 5, 2006 One Comment
    Categories: [funny, health] / Tags: []

    A gorgeous young redhead goes into the doctor’s office and said that her body hurt wherever she touched it.

    “Impossible!” says the doctor. “Show me.”

    The redhead took her finger, pushed on her left breast and screamed, then she pushed her elbow and screamed in even more. She pushed her knee and screamed; likewise she pushed her ankle and screamed. Everywhere she touched made her scream.

    The doctor said, “You’re not really a redhead, are you?

    ”Well, no,“ she said, ”I’m actually a blonde.“

    I thought so,” the doctor said.

    “Your finger is broken.”

    Stolen from Tawcan at Confessions of a Monkey.

    Written By: Gary on January 11, 2006 2 Comments
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    Not a big blonde joke fan but this is the best blonde joke ever. And you know I don’t often tell jokes…

    Written By: Gary on January 2, 2006 One Comment
    Categories: [blogging, food + drink, funny, quotes, web sites] / Tags: []

    “I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every
    other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the
    locks, they are always locking three.”

    –Elayne Boosler


    Here’s another…

    “Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I’m halfway through my
    fishburger and I realize, Oh my God….I could be eating a slow learner.”
    –Lynda Montgomery

    From Don’t Forward.

    Written By: Gary on November 21, 2005 One Comment
    Categories: [funny, general] /

    Arlonjanis20051120I just read the funnies from Sunday and I thought this was absolutely hysterical!!! I’m still laughing at this while I write this.


    This silly thing is, that it probably wouldn’t make that much of a difference in the long run, I know people like it different temperatures but if they’re both cold they’re both gonna turn it up they’re both going to get warm. (But I’m still laughing)

    Written By: Gary on November 17, 2005 No Comments
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    So I like Jill Twiss’s Blog, it’s called “The World of Jill Twiss:Where Good Things Are Good and Bad Things Are Comedy Material”, it’s generally pretty funny and I’ve had her on my blogroll for a while. I’d go see her if I knew she was ever in the Detroit area or I was in her area. There’s a video on-line of her, it’s stand up and the lighting is awful not so great but you can hear her just fine so go take a look.

    Written By: Gary on October 15, 2005 One Comment
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    Samantha will tell you all you need to know about Dog Condoms. She’s got a funny cartoon too. (That’s all I’ve got to say about the matter).

    Written By: Gary on August 5, 2005 5 Comments
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    SpaghettiSo when I was a kid the local movie theater, in lieu of cartoons, would show short documentary type shows. These 3-7 minute shorts might be on skatboarding, mountian climbing or any old thing (some were new, some were old). The one I’ll always remember is about the annual Swiss Spaghetti Harvest, they show how they harvest the spaghetti trees and lay it out to dry. You can watch a low quality version (in RealPlayer) and you’ll get the concept.

    Update: I noticed the direct link (click the image) was broken. So I’m moving this back up towards the top so you can take a gander if you missed it the first time.


    I knew it was a joke but it was totally deadpan. It wasn’t until years later I learned it was part of a (normally serious) BBC show they showed on April 1st, 1957. Here’s some more info and background. Why am I bringing this up today? Because the link hasn’t worked for ages and it’s working today so I thought I’d add a smile to your day. It’s believed to be one of the first times television was used for a April Fools Joke. Here’s a little more info from the Museum of Hoaxes.

    August 1st or April 1st, any day is good for a joke.

    Does anyone have access or know where I can get (purchase) a higher quality version of this?!?

    Written By: Gary on June 12, 2005 2 Comments

    crazy carSo the other day I saw this cRaZy car. It’s got these wild colors and weird junk stuff glued all over the car, like shells, pencils, dolls, painted bottle-caps and more than I can list here. crazy art carSo of course I took some pictures (click for larger versions), but when I got home they didn’t come out at all (it looked like the lens cover didn’t open all the way). I was pretty disappointed since I was trying to show someone the photos when I discovered they were duds…

    Fast-forward to a week later. Guess what I saw!?!?! You got it, the cRaZy car! If you look hard at the enlarged version you can see the back wiper blade is a baby doll’s arm. It’s just completely bizzaro and I saw it twice in a week in different areas of the metro-Detroit area…

    Written By: Gary on June 9, 2005 2 Comments

    BeautygeekI generally hate the reality shows but this new one by Ashton Kutcher called Beauty and the Geek is hysterical. Seven beautiful women and seven dorks geniuses have to team up and teach each other some skills if they want to win the competition, but “they’re so far apart on the social spectrum that they’re practically different species”.

    They extra funny part is I know these guys (or at least guys like them) from high school and/or college. Plus, some of these guys have never been on a date or kissed a girl. When the one category is massage the one guy was practically shaking when he realized he was going to have to touch a girl. The women learned auto repair faster than the guys learned massage. Be sure to check out the preview.


    I missed the first episode so I’m not sure how the teams were picked, but it’s some interesting choices.

    In one of the final competitions two guys are in the other room watching the girls compete. The question is “What are windshield wipers made of?”, she responds with “rubber” and both guys watching said “I didn’t know that?!?”…

    Joe says, “I’m still a Virgin. No, I’m not saving myself…” HA!

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