Humor

I’m an ocasional reader of the Korean Central News Agency of DPRK (KCNA) which is the external propaganda wing of North Korea. It’s a priceless resource for the study of the silliness of political propaganda. One of my favorites recently was an article in which a North Korean woman’s soccer victory was responsible for the increase in the country’s electrical output:

Ri Chol Su, a worker of the Pyongyang Thermal Power Complex, said: “I was greatly excited to hear the news that our girls won the world championship. This encouraged us to achieve an unprecedented high boost in the electricity production today.

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What’s going on Chicagoans? Have you lost as sense of manly honor? First you ban a food that no one eats, Foie Gras. But that one made a bit of sense. I’m sure that all waterfowl in the city of Chicago are registered Democrats and you have to look out for your constituents.

But then I find this quote in an article about the name change of Marshall Field’s to Macy’s:

The Sheppard’s on a rampage. Now we’ve got Bruce Campbell playing Brutus:

Brutus: I got news for you, pal. You ain’t leading but two things right now: Jack and Shit. And, Jack left town. –(Brutus stabs Cesar) Cesar: “Et tu, Brute?” Brutus: “Oooh, that’s gotta hurt! Hail to the king, baby” Cesar: “Klaatu verrata nectu arrrgh”

Sam Raimi rewriting and directing his rendition of Hamlet with Bruce Campbell as Hamlet:

To be groovy or not to be groovy, That is the question baby. Whether ’tis groovier in the mind to suffer the boomsticks and arrows of outrageous fortune, baby Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them? baby. Oh yeah and remember shop smart. . . shop S-mart

Via the brilliant Andy Sheppard.

This is the most disturbing thing I’ve seen this year. Here’s the new trailer for Fellini’s soon to be released lost classic, 8 1/2 Mile:

Here’s a small gallery of images that proves the destructive nature of sedentary employment. They are pictures of some of the horribly abused chairs floating around in our IT department.

Now here is a theory I can get behind:

KANSAS CITY, KS—As the debate over the teaching of evolution in public schools continues, a new controversy over the science curriculum arose Monday in this embattled Midwestern state. Scientists from the Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning are now asserting that the long-held “theory of gravity” is flawed, and they have responded to it with a new theory of Intelligent Falling.

[Via: The Onion | Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New ‘Intelligent Falling’ Theory]

I always wondered what the words were to that song:

Oddly enough, this seems to encapsulate everything in Pulp Fiction rather accurately despite it’s short time frame. Please keep in mind that “viewer discretion is advised! Contains bunnies cussing and bunnies in adult situations.”

Pulp Fiction in 30 Seconds (and Re-enacted by Bunnies)

If you ever wanted a sign that the world is coming to an end, here it is:

At the time Elvis Presley died in 1977, he had 150 impersonators in the US. Now, according to calculations I spotted in a Sunday newspaper color supplement recently, there are 85,000. Intriguingly, that means one in every 3,400 Americans is an Elvis impersonator. More disturbingly, if Elvis impersonators continue multiplying at the same rate, they will account for a third of the world’s population by 2019.

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