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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.

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Humour Culture

No Snickering - That Road Sign Means Something Else - NYTimes.com

  • The 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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Humour Culture

  • 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).
21 Nov 09

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.

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Humour Culture Marketing search

19 Nov 09

YouTube - Message from space

Hilarious 30 second Dalek voicemail by Paul Johnson

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Humour fiction

28 Oct 09

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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Humour microblogging Social Networking brrism

  • Back 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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Microsoft's grinning robots or the Brotherhood of the Mac. Which is worse? | Charlie Brooker | Comment is free | The Guardian

  • whereas 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
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24 Oct 09

Painted 'zebras' delight Gaza kids - Times LIVE

  • A genuine zebra would have been too expensive to bring into Israel-blockaded Gaza via smuggling tunnels under the border with Egypt,
16 Aug 09

“Terror Messages” (cute error messages that scare you based on context) @ sellmic.com

  • Obviously, if I get this message at my home, the train or the airport there’s no problem. Everything changes

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This is claimed to be a genuine error message from wavesandbox.com. It made me smile.

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Humour googlewave

11 Aug 09

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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Humour Health

  • “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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