Actual Statements found on Insurance Forms
"English" Signs from Around the World
Terrible Translation -- Signs of the Times
'Bite the Wax Tadpole' and Other International Marketing Blunders
Annual M-LAW Wacky Warning Label Contest
...includes photos, scans, and previous years' entries
Funny headlines
...this page has scans of the headlines in question
Funny Actual Newspaper Headlines
...this page lists the headlines' sources
Funny signs
...photographs of unintentionally humorous signage
The World According to Student Bloopers
...world history as compiled from high school exams
Visionaries
...such
as the head of IBM, who said "I think there's a world market for about
five computers"...
Predictions
from the past
...more of the same
Actual Calls and Letters to Internet Technical Support
Tech Calls
...RealAudio samples of actual calls
The Weekly World News
...well, sure, it's not meant to be funny...(and I'm not quite sure how well it fits within this "reality" genre)
Hello Cleveland, err, Dallas!
...Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby jamming in Dallas, '63
The Declaration Revised
...a critique of the Declaration of Independence from the Court of King George III
Unfortunately, three of my all-time favorites -- "Bloom County," "Calvin and Hobbes," and "The Far Side" (Gary Larson is the latter-day patron saint of scientists) are long-since defunct, though they live on in various incarnations and a few people have since created strips that approach these classics' magnificence...
The Calvin and Hobbes Jumpstation
Calvin and Hobbes' Magical World
Bloom County Zone -- The Official Unofficial Bloom County and Outland Resource
The Official Berkeley Breathed Website
...the man behind the classic '80s strip, Bloom County, and the later Outland"
Foxtrot
Dave Barry's columns
Dave Barry
A Horror
Movie Character's Survival Guide
Twenty-five Things I Learned From Watching TV & Movies
Late Show Top Ten Archive
Titanic -- The Alternative Script
The
Jihad To Destroy Barney on the Worldwide Web
The Billy Connolly Homepage
Billy Connolly -- God or what?
The Ultimate Robin Williams Website
The Andy Kaufman Home Page
Shakespearean
insults
Shakespearean Insulter
Random Elizabethan Curse Generator
The Surrealist Compliment Generator
Apology note
generator
The
automatic complaint-letter generator
Country song
generator
Her rabbi said I'd stay with her forever
This is how they do it in Nashville, these days...
Really.
I, Rearrangement
Servant
Make Your
Own Conspiracy Theory
Biblical Top Ten (and other) Lists
A Short Guide to Comparative Religions
Jesus Christ Superstore
150
things
not to do or say at or for your Thesis Defense
Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?
Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?
Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?
Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?
Celebriducks for the Connoisseur
Quayle Quotes
Ronald
Reagan's Demented Mediaverse
Jerry Falwell's History of America
The Onion
Dave Barry
...from the Miami Herald
...a site from his book publisher, Random House, that focuses on his latest books (with links to previous masterworks)Television and the movies
...all of David Letterman's Top-Ten Lists since moving to CBS in 1993Funny dudes
...known for decades to audiences outside the US, Billy's one of the funniest storytellers out there (way out there) and, like Robin Williams, has also proven himself a fine actor
...a somewhat off-center genius who may have wandered far across the line distinguishing reality and insanity at times, Andy was a big-time Elvis fan and thusly more than all right by me (and, like Elvis, rumors of Andy's faked death continue to surface)Computer-generated weirdness
...generated randomlyto produce zingers such as "Thou loggerheaded fly-bitten puttock."
...similar, but this one also mixes in real insults lifted from the Bard's plays
...another along the same lines, though I'm not sure that Shakespeare or Queen Elizabeth would actually have called anyone a "sottish, knotty-pated hedge-pig."
...by way of example, "An ocean-going tin of crosseyed mussels could never match the melodious burblings of your sister's husband"...
...this could be particularly handy if you overuse the insult generators above...
For example:
She said to me there was no other guy
But who'd have thought she'd blast off in my Edsel
I guess I was too smashed to say goodbye.
(or "Internet Anagram Server")...make your own anagrams!Word play
Deepish thoughts
Religion, medicine, and those wacky scientists
...It
happens, as Forrest Gump knew all too well
...actually, I'm not sure if this is real or a joke, but they specialize in some nifty action figures based on the world's religionsLists
...I didn't do most of them, though I thought about the Greek ChorusPoultry (paltry?) humor
...answered by great philosophers and other noted figures
...more along the same lines
...yet another one! Apparently, this is just one of those questions.
...takes the old question further than I thought possible
...an actual business, selling rubber duckies that have celebrities' faces (James Brown included)Political Incorrectness (and other biting satire)
...people voted for him? I guess that at least puts him ahead of Bush II...
...a collection of bloopers and scary insights from the
Gipper
..."America's Finest News Source"