Duck! Bush Jokes About Cheney’s Bad Aim: ‘While hosting the 2007 Stanley Cup winners at the White House, the President asked the Anaheim Duck hockey champs, “Like, have you noticed a lot of security around here? It’s because the Vice President heard there were some Ducks around.”’ Such a funny guy, too.
February 7th, 2008
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Found in Translation, on a Chinese Flight: “When you wake up in the morning, trying to figure out whether you are in Beijing, Shanghai or Guangzhou, you hear the harmonic voice of the Backstreet Boys on the radio. You suddenly forget where you are — because music is boundless! This is the power of Foreign POP Music.’
October 30th, 2007
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Seniors balk at ban on free doughnuts: “It was just another morning at the senior center: Women were sewing, men were playing pool — and seven demonstrators, average age 76, were picketing outside, demanding doughnuts.” — via Darren.
September 25th, 2007
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US woman arrested over dry lawn: “A 70-year-old US woman has been left bruised and bloody after an unexpected clash with police who came to caution her for not watering her lawn.”
July 11th, 2007
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Dunning-Kruger effect:
“The Dunning-Kruger effect is the phenomenon whereby people who have little knowledge systematically think that they know more than others who have much more knowledge.” Food for thought indeed… via kottke.
June 26th, 2007
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Michigan treasurer falls for Nigerian scam: “A public treasurer in the Michigan county of Alcona stands accused of embezzling tax payers out of more than $1.2m, at least part of which was used to cover costs he incurred falling for a Nigerian banking fraud.” Unbelievable…
February 1st, 2007
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Private-eyes paid to have paid sex: “Sydney officials have paid private detectives thousands of dollars to have sex with prostitutes to gather evidence needed to shut down illegal brothels, a newspaper reported Sunday. […] ‘We have to employ private investigators to actually go through with the act and come up with reports that will suffice in a court process.’”. Were the good men such employed hard to find, one wonders…
January 22nd, 2007
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Danish Art Group Pokes Fun at Iranian President. Nicely done. Their former antics involved equally cuddly world leaders Lukashenko and Mugabe.
December 21st, 2006
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Secret of Borat’s fluent Kazakh: It’s Hebrew. And that is quite hilarious. I would think, at least.
December 21st, 2006
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