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funny placenames Electrical Audio • View topic - Holy shit, go have a look at the Wikipedia home page
A whole list of them, with pics and links. Sadly I don't know what the Wikipedia Main Page was that started this off.
No Snickering - That Road Sign Means Something Else - NYTimes.com
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Add Sticky NoteThe guidelines mention the hypothetical residents of No. 4, with their unfortunate hypothetical address, “4 Corfe Close.”
- A bit sad if you ask me. - on 2009-12-03
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The guidelines mention the hypothetical residents of No. 4, with their unfortunate hypothetical address, “4 Corfe Close.”
Fucking, Austria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I think the Austrians don't want us to laugh
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tz-online notes that numerous villages across the border in Germany have names that are "unfortunate" even in German, including Affendorf (Monkey Village), Faulebutter (Putrid Butter), Fickmühlen (Fuck Mill), Himmelreich (Kingdom of Heaven), Katzenhirn (Cat Brain), Plöd (Stupid), Regenmantel (Raincoat), Sklavenhaus (Slave House) and Warzen (Warts).
Alpha Mummy - Times Online - WBLG: These kids have TOO MANY SODDING TOYS
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I took exactly half the toys, put them in bin-bags, and hid them in the basement.
Aleks Krotoski : [Lifestream] Particle physics jokes (in 140 characters or less)
Terrible puns and other dodgy one liners
YouTube - Batman - by Google search stories
Search, seen as a dynamic story. Funny and strangely compelling 30 second TV ad. A brief glimpse of an option I hadn't seen: image search filtered by colour.
Hypocritical Mass: The Big Lie About Twitter | Atomic Tango | Oct 27 2009
This may be funny, but it is a clear and sharp attack on the recent Twitter buzz.
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Add Sticky NoteBack in the days of yore, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and the Web didn’t exist, I used to contact corporations by snail mail and phone — and I almost always got responses. Now, thanks to social media, corporations have to either hire several (or even hundreds) of customer service/social media reps, or they have to avoid customer contact as much as possible.
- Ha! Before long, few of us will be old enough to remember those days of yore, and our memories are fading. - on 2009-10-28
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Who says you have to be social on social media? Oh, right, the social media experts do…
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Hosting Your Windows 7 Torrenting Party from FoD Team UK, dawsonbros, and Al_Campbell - Video
I can't help smiling!
Tomorrow I plan to legally torrent Ubuntu 9.10
Microsoft's grinning robots or the Brotherhood of the Mac. Which is worse? | Charlie Brooker | Comment is free | The Guardian
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Add Sticky Notewhereas eerie replicant Mac monks really are everywhere, standing over your shoulder in their charcoal pullovers, smirking with amusement at your hopelessly inferior OS, knowing they're better than you because they use Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard.
- I should upgrade to Snow Leopard to go with my woolly pullover. - on 2009-10-28
Painted 'zebras' delight Gaza kids - Times LIVE
Keeping up morale.
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A genuine zebra would have been too expensive to bring into Israel-blockaded Gaza via smuggling tunnels under the border with Egypt,
“Terror Messages” (cute error messages that scare you based on context) @ sellmic.com
enjoy
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Obviously, if I get this message at my home, the train or the airport there’s no problem. Everything changes
waveturbulance.png (PNG Image, 820x539 pixels)
This is claimed to be a genuine error message from wavesandbox.com. It made me smile.
Has Wikipedia Created a Rorschach Cheat Sheet? Analyze That - NYTimes.com - July 2009
Is this a reflection of how unscientific some branches of psychology are? I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
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“If someone had previous knowledge of the eye chart,” he said, “you can go to the car people, and you could recount the chart from memory. You could get into an accident. Should we take it down from Wikipedia?”
And, Dr. Heilman added, “My dad fooled the doctor that way.”
- I love this doctor - on 2009-08-11
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