Archive for the ‘Humour’ Category

Bad taste joke of the decade

Here.
See comments – Ross points out it’s disappeared, but it’s still in Google cache.

Chancy Murphy

Remember the film Being There? As imdb puts it:
Chance, a simple gardener, has never left the estate until his employer dies. His simple TV-informed utterances are mistaken for profundity.
Now read this post and the comments thread. In case it’s pruned, here’s where Richard Murphy’s pseudo-gnomic utterances have got him so far:

Adrian

August 18th, 2010 at [...]

Ode to Newport

Thanks, Kate.

Quote of the day

Ah, an elected government that’s insufficiently leftwing. The End Times must be upon us.
David Thompson.

Statistician joke

Three statisticians go duck hunting. The first one’s bullet sails straight past the duck, about six inches above its head. The second one aims more accurately but the duck, startled by the noise of the first shot, jumps six inches into the air and the bullet misses again, this time whizzing [...]

Husband of the year

The winner has been announced.

Important research

See here.