Humour
Not everything needs to be serious. These are the daft, silly and funny things that made me laugh enough to write about.
Posts about Humour
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The HTML Neck Tag — Where Should Broken Head Scripts Go?
on Tue, May 9, 2023 ~ Shorticles | Web | Humour
Poking fun at the mythical HTMLtag—where semantics meet silliness, standards collide with satire, and web nerds nod knowingly at a cheeky non-element. -
The gym towel saga
on Thu, Dec 9, 2004 ~ Shorticles | Life | Humour
Very recently I decided that I should start going to the gym again as I was getting a little tubby here and there - and promptly got embroiled in a towel saga. -
Google bares one at me!
on Wed, Oct 6, 2004 ~ Shorticles | Humour
I use Google Alerts quite a bit, a most excellent tool, but today I had reason to change one of them from 'as it happens' to 'daily report' - I was getting too many alerts on one particular subject. -
Everest gets 6 inches higher, on average
on Wed, Aug 4, 2004 ~ Shorticles | Humour | News
It looks like researchers have discovered that the lack of oxygen suffered by climbers at altitude can be counteracted by Viagra - hence the cheeky headline. -
How to self spot attention deficiency
on Thu, Jul 8, 2004 ~ Shorticles | Humour
Just did a Google on how to self spot attention deficiency because I am worried that I never concentrate on anything for very long normally. -
A cliche gone up in smoke
on Sun, Jun 13, 2004 ~ Shorticles | Humour
England's dramatic defeat to France in the European Cup has put paid to the old and well worn football phrase 'it's a game of two halves'. -
Rip off designer water and sex letters advertising cars
on Wed, Mar 3, 2004 ~ Shorticles | Humour | News
Two marketing mess-ups this week - Coca Cola using public tap water to produce its expensive designer label Dasani, and a car advert featuring subliminal content. -
David Blaine is inane
on Sat, Sep 13, 2003 ~ Shorticles | News | Humour
When David Blaine hit our small screens I was fascinated and intrigued. Now he is trying to emulate Harry Houdini by living in a box above the Thames for 44 days. -
Multibabel
on Sat, Sep 6, 2003 ~ Shorticles | Humour | Web
Just come across a great site - Lost in Translation. It takes a word or phrase and uses Babelfish to translate from English into Japanese then back to English then Chinese then English and so on. -
Adam and Joe to star in The Return of the King
on Tue, Sep 2, 2003 ~ Shorticles | Humour
British comedy sensations Adam and Joe are thought to have been secretly filming for Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. -
Yobs set ferret alight
on Mon, Jun 16, 2003 ~ Shorticles | Misc | Humour
Local headlines sometimes just unintentionally make you laugh! Spotted on the Croydon Advertiser web site - Yobs set ferret alight. -
Microsoft plans toilets with Web access
on Wed, May 7, 2003 ~ Shorticles | Web | Humour
This is a description of my new short. -
Digital blunders - Fraudster's mobile bungling gives him away
on Mon, Apr 28, 2003 ~ Shorticles | News | Humour
I find some solace in these stories about criminals who are stupid.