Humor

This page contains items that I’ve found to be humorous. They are not written by me.

Written Humor

• Rabbit’s Thesis
• Mathematical Humor
• What To Do With All Those “Free” Soaps When Traveling
• Actual Quotes from Medical Records
• Computers
  • An Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup
  • Real Programmers Don’t Use Pascal
  • Tech Support Story: On Calling Microsoft vs. Calling Psychic Friends Network
• Jewish Jokes
  • A rabbi, a priest, and a minister are discussing when life begins. The priest says: “In our religion, life begins at conception.” The Minister says: “We disagree. We believe that life begins when the fetus is viable away from the mother’s womb.” The rabbi responds: “You are both wrong. In our religion life begins when the kids graduate college and the dog dies.”
• “Son, you were adopted.” “Wow! That’s Amazing. I can’t believe it!” “Yes, and they are coming to get you in an hour, so get ready.”
• “My wife left me because I’m so insecure. … Oh, wait—she’s back. She only went to get a cup of coffee.”
• A ham sandwich is better than complete happiness. Proof: Nothing is better than complete happiness. And, a ham sandwich is certainly better than nothing.

Videos and Animations

• badday.mpg
  • The Strange History of One of the Internet’s First Viral Videos
• Blue Ball Machine
  • YTMND Fads Wiki: Blue Ball Machine

Comics

• 9 Chickweed Lane
• Adult Children
• Brewster Rockit
• Close to Home
• Cornered
• FoxTrot
• In the Bleachers
• Mark Fiore
• Monty
• Non Sequitur
• Oglaf
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
• Sherman’s Lagoon
• Slylock Fox and Comics for Kids
• Tank McNamara

Magazines

• Mad Magazine

Books

• Disorder in the Court: Great Fractured Moments in Courtroom History by Charles M. Sevilla, Lee Lorenz, W. W. Norton & Company, 1999, 978-0393319286
• The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett, Harper Torch, 2000, 978-0061020711