Archive for the ‘Humor’ Category
A Trailer for Every Academy Award Winning Movie Ever
Tags: Academic Awards, Humor, Oscars
Tags: Academic Awards, Humor, Oscars
Belloc on becoming famous
Tags: 1904, Anecdotes, Fame, Hilaire Belloc, Literature, Writing
Hilaire Belloc
“My advice to a young writer who is merely thinking of fame,” Belloc once wrote, “is to concentrate on one subject. Let him, when he is twenty, write about the earthworm. Let him continue for forty years to write about nothing but the earthworm. When he is sixty, pilgrims will make a hollow path with their feet to the door of the world’s greatest authority on the earthworm. They will knock on his door and humbly beg to be allowed to see the Master of the Earthworm.”
Note:
Belloc was so embarrassed about the substandard stuff he had to write to make a living, that one day, when he was traveling by train and saw a man reading his ‘History of England’ in front of him, he asked the man how much he had paid for the book. The man disclosed the sum, Belloc took the money from his wallet, handed it to the man, snatched the book from his grasp and threw it out of the window…
Tags: 1904, Anecdotes, Fame, Hilaire Belloc, Literature, Writing
Righteous indignation
The coolest Christian and Atheist shirts ever
In America, there is passionate discourse between Christians (and the many factions between them) and Atheists. But that doesn’t mean that the arguments shouldn’t be conducted with some sense of humor.
The latest foot soldiers drafted in the debate are our t-shirts. Let them speak for themselves:
First the Christian camp
Jesus is my homeboy
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Designed by: Cutencomfy
Death smiles at everyone
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Designed by: CleverBullet
Christians are not perfect
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Designed by: Iceskating2004
Jesus would treat gay people with kindness
Available from: Zazzle
Designed by: GVentola
Designed intelligently
Available from: CafePress
Designed by: The Seventh Sense
Got Jesus
Available from: Choice shirts
And now from the Atheist camp:
Zeus to Reason
Available from: Atheists T-Shirts
Available from: CafePress
Atheist wine club
Available from: Zazzle
Designed by: Plowchdr
No-one has been stoned to death by atheist
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Designed by: Wearealone
God works in mysterious ways
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Designed by: Tallycherise
Imaginary friend
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Designed by: GenepoolDesign
Don’t pray in my school, and I won’t think in your church
Available from: Atheist T Shirts
Born OK The First Time
Available from: CafePress
Designed by: Best in the Verse
Atheists do it unsupervise
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Designed by: Gloom7
Real cool wedding invitation
I was quite happy with our wedding invitation, but I stumbled upon this one, and it is absolutely delightful!
Enjoy.
Congrats, Jill and Matt
10 things you never knew about orgasms
Tags: Humor, Orgasm, Sex, Ted Talks, Video
Surprising facts about orgasms
I posted the video below because this is one funny talk.
Some observations, though:
What is interesting about this talk is that we cannot talk about sex in our culture without a lot of throat clearing and a level of discomfort with the subject. Roach is probably intentionally doing this. as she doesn’t come across as a person who is even bashful in the slightest about sex.
The majority of people are uncomfortable with talking about sex. So instead of just straight talking sex, these signs, add to humor, but also create a bridge to the people who might be a little put-off by the talk. They feel that if she is slightly uncomfortable with breaking open the topic, but can still explore it, than so can they. It works them through to the topic.
Some people seem to think this video is poor because of its informal approach — yet, Mary Roach is adopting this approach because of the stigma associated with sex and orgasm. Some critics say the talk is not “life-changing” or “inspiring” (and why would every talk need to be). But it does fit very well into the TED forum because of the very fact that this video educates us on taboo topics — perhaps making some realize that they are NOT so taboo after all and in this regard makes it a gateway to new thinking and changed attitudes.
The List:
1.) A fetus can masturbate in utero.
2.) You don’t need genitals.
3.) You can have them when you’re dead.
4.) They can cause bad breath.
5.) They can cure hiccups.
6.) Doctors once prescribed them for fertility.
7.) Pig farmers still do.
8.) Animals orgasm more than we think they do.
9.) There was an instrument developed in lab studies — a camera attached to a phallus — to study what happens inside a woman’s vagina when she climaxes.
10.) Kinsey conducted, for lack of a better term, jerk-off in which he lined men up next to each other and had them ejaculate in order to study how far semen can shoot.