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Category: Humour

Something funny or a humorous perspective on some topic or thing.

  • Events: Serenity part II

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    From the immortal William Blake: Tyger Tyger, burning bright,In the forests of the night;What immortal hand or eye,Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies.Burnt the fire of thine eyes?On what wings dare he aspire?What the hand, dare sieze the fire? [etc.] and so true on so many levels.

  • Humour: Spaghetti

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    As an avid amateur cook it has long troubled me that when breaking spaghetti it rarely breaks into just two pieces; more often than not it’s 3, 4, or more. While some may mock this concern as needlessly elevated, believing that the only obvious impact is some minor loss of control resulting in spaghetti fragments…

  • Humour: Golf Dome

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    The Golf Dome is closed today. But just a moment…if “Christmas” (as in Merry Christmas) has been abstracted, and neutered to “Holiday” (as in Happy Holiday) then why is the Dome closed?

  • Humour: US Politics

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    Humour: US Politics

    It may not be surprising that President Bush received the honours this year as the butt of more jokes than his contemporaries; that such metrics are kept may be the more interesting point. The Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) counts the jokes told on four popular late-night television programs: Late Night with David…

  • Humour: NSA

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    In an article titled “Just how extensive is NSA’s spy program?” New.com states: Gilmore suspects that the NSA may have assembled a database of every phone call that enters and leaves the United States, coupled with similar automated storage of at least the “header” information of e-mail messages. (Header information includes the To:, From: and…