Archive for the 'Funny' Category

Weird Asian News:
Recently some restaurants in Guangdong, China, have been promoting a popular dish called “water boiled live cat�.
The way the restaurants kill the cats is very cruel and inhumane. One of the chefs even says “the more torture the cats receive, the better they taste.�
They use a bat and beat the cats until they [...]

Jalopnik:
Sioux Falls police arrested 60-year old Verle Peter Dills on Tuesday after he was caught performing an unnamed sex act in another resident’s yard. The Argus Leader reports that while searching his home, police uncovered a “large amount” of video showing Dills masturbating to and having sex with various traffic signs. Dills is charged with [...]

Reuters:
A Sicilian mother took away her 61-year-old son’s house keys, cut off his allowance and hauled him to the police station because he stayed out late.
Tired of her son’s misbehavior, the retiree in the central Sicilian city of Caltagirone turned to the police to “convince this blockhead” to behave properly, La Sicilia, one of Sicily’s [...]

Ouch My Toe:
On 19 July a contest titled “Can you put words into my mouth?� was announced on Ouchmytoe.com.
In spite of the measly prize money (Rs 500)…the responses have overshot the condition I had set by 40% and the post ended up with 42 comments. Makes me wonder if I should start contributing to the [...]

The Huffington Post:
In the future, thanks to advances in personal computing and Internet connectivity, more and more people will be working at home.
While there are some obvious benefits to this arrangement, such as gasoline cost savings and the ability to devote more of the workweek to bidding on Battlestar Gallactica memorabilia, there is a [...]

From Sowpub Forum
“Man will never reach the moon, regardless of all future scientific advances.” - Dr. Lee DeForest, Father of Radio & Grandfather of Television.
“The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives.” - Admiral William Leahy, US Atomic Bomb Project Manhattan
“There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power [...]

Telecommuting? Don’t want to be considered just another one of those lazy work at home people?
It’s easy to start looking stupid while telecommuting. Here are ten tips to save face while working from home.
Here’s how to keep up appearances.
From the Bing Blog
Hi there. It’s Friday afternoon and I thought I would offer a few [...]

Call it gallows humor. “Working at home” is rapidly becoming the strategy of choice for business continuity during a pandemic.
This is the first comic strip I’ve seen on it though.
But I bet lots of cubicle jockeys will concur the calculations can become incredibly simple…
Check out the whole comic strip here…

You know gas prices are out of this world when you start seeing signs that say “Will work for Fuel”.

This fits - I went out to the mailbox today and instead of a pre-approved credit card application from the Gas company today, I found a pre-approved home equity loan form!  
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