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

• The HTML Neck Tag — Where Should Broken Head Scripts Go?

  on Tue, May 9, 2023 ~ Shorticles | Web | Humour
  Poking fun at the mythical HTML tag—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.