Laugh links
These range from stupid to insulting to clever to lascivious (and I don’t get to use that word often enough… which makes me lugubrious). For example:
Many more at https://medium.com/backyard-theology/the-worst-ever-church-signs-c908845e5a31.
Note: NSFW (Not Safe For Work)! And I’m afraid to look up parts 1 through 22.
(The article calls this “Conunto Granada” but it appears to actually be “Conjunto Granada.” You can hear one song at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbe3kHPFiPg. I am hardly an expert on salsa, but the sound does not seem to be much better than the album cover.) https://medium.com/@Colinthecrypto1/the-worst-album-covers-in-the-world-part-23-6d5c8dee656f
Roxanne by The Police:
Inspired by their time in Paris, Sting wrote Roxanne as the story of a man who falls in love with a prostitute after having observed many such ladies outside the band’s hotel room. With a seedy and almost teasing tone to the song, it seemed that the laugh heard at the beginning of Roxanne was something added intentionally. After all, it seemed to compliment the song’s tone and subject matter perfectly.
However, this was revealed to be a complete accident that the band decided to keep in the final recording. It turns out that while in the studio, Sting had wanted to sit down and relax for a moment. Rather than sit on a chair, the singer inadvertently rested his buttocks on the studio’s piano and produced a sound that everyone felt was both amusing and somewhat appropriate for the song.
Also:
https://medium.com/the-riff/5-famous-mistakes-in-iconic-songs-437a1ee2a549
The Register is a Brit technology news publication. One of its features is the BOFH (Bastard Operator from Hell) and his young helper the PFY (Pimply-Faced Youth).
HR has asked the BOFH for all emails (including sent, deleted, and archived emails) for some kind of investigation. BOFH asks for more information on what they need:
“Okay, no problems. Now, do you want his personal email as well?”
“People shouldn’t be using company email for personal business.”
“Yeah sure, and they shouldn’t be using the company photocopiers to check on the progress of suspicious moles on their arses either – but we all do it.”
“What?”
“Not our OWN photocopiers obviously. No, I use the one up in Human Resources.”
https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/17/bofh_2022_episode_11/
…Harry hesitated. He couldn’t help himself. Actually, under the circumstances, he shouldn’t be helping himself. It was right and proper to be curious. “What else can you do?”
Professor McGonagall turned into a cat.
Harry scrambled back unthinkingly, backpedalling so fast that he tripped over a stray stack of books and landed hard on his bottom with a thwack. His hands came down to catch himself without quite reaching properly, and there was a warning twinge in his shoulder as the weight came down unbraced.
At once the small tabby cat morphed back up into a robed woman. “I’m sorry, Mr. Potter,” said the witch, sounding sincere, though the corners of her lips were twitching upwards. “I should have warned you.”
Harry was breathing in short gasps. His voice came out choked. “You can’t DO that!“
“It’s only a Transfiguration,” said Professor McGonagall. “An Animagus transformation, to be exact.”
“You turned into a cat! A SMALL cat! You violated Conservation of Energy! That’s not just an arbitrary rule, it’s implied by the form of the quantum Hamiltonian! Rejecting it destroys unitarity and then you get FTL signalling! And cats are COMPLICATED! A human mind can’t just visualise a whole cat’s anatomy and, and all the cat biochemistry, and what about the neurology? How can you go on thinking using a cat-sized brain?”
Professor McGonagall’s lips were twitching harder now. “Magic.”
I’m only up to chapter 8 of 122, but this is so funny… in every chapter so far. Check it out. https://www.hpmor.com/.
This is a little techie, but funny. The point is that when your browser asks for a web page, the computer that sends the web page back to you includes a three-digit status code. The first digit says whether the request is in progress, was successful, had a client or server error etc. From Wikipedia:
Anyway, this site will supply a cat picture (yes!) for each return code: https://http.cat/. Click on the picture for an expanded picture. Example: 400 = Bad Request:
“White noise” (evenly-distributed random noise) from the sky:
This 10 hour ambient track of soothing white noise masks distracting sounds to help you sleep better and focus at work or school. The video is ten hours long so that you can achieve deep sleep and not be woken by extraneous noises in the night. You’ll enjoy the benefits of relaxation, focus, deeper sleep and freedom from outside distractions.
The sound, uniquely crafted and based upon cosmic radiation, is similar to brown noise but has more bass and less on the high end.
Tinnitus sufferers may also find their symptoms temporarily masked by the ambient mix.
Ten hours long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzjWIxXBs_s. And for maximum enjoyment, turn on the closed captioning.
The comments are also good, here are a few:
Robloxmemer 59: Can’t believe I’m still listening to this song 14 billion years after it first came out
Comrade Wolf: This is my favorite band. I can’t wait to see them in concert!!
Tomi 24: i love the fact that i paused the video when i went to the bathroom so i wouldn’t miss a thing 💀
From Crazy Ex-Girlfriend:
Rebecca & Paula together:
AND I REALLY WANNA TELL YOU THAT I’M SORRY
AND I REALLY WANNA TELL YOU THAT I AM THE WORST
AND I JUST WANNA SAY
I MISS YOU EVERY DAY
AND I WILL… BUT YOU GO FIRST
Obituary:
Hers was a bawdy, rowdy life lived large, broke and loud. We thought Renay could not be killed. God knows, people tried. A lot. Renay has been toying with death for a decades, but always beating it and running off in her silver Chevy Nova. Covid couldn’t kill Renay. Neither could pneumonia twice, infections, blood clots, bad feet, breast cancer twice, two mastectomies, two recessions, multiple bankruptcies, marriage to a philandering Sergeant Major, divorce in the 70’s, six kids, one cesarean, a few abortions from the Quietly Famous Abortionist of Spring Lake, NC or an affair with Larry King in the 60’s.
See the whole thing at https://www.fayobserver.com/obituaries/m0028451. Some story behind it from The Guardian:
The obituary describes abortions and an affair with Larry King, but he (Andy Corren, Renay’s son) said that he actually toned down some of Renay’s life – for the protection of those living and dead, and because not all statutes of limitations have expired.
Some of these are pretty funny. Click a “pic.twitter.com” link to see the Twitter entry, and clicking a picture shows you a somewhat larger and more complete image. Here’s HuffPost’s 2021 list:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/funniest-tweets-cats-dogs-2021_n_61ccf5f9e4b0bb04a6362061
For example, from https://twitter.com/the_shb/status/1443740333041328128: “Today seems as good a day as any to share these pics of the cat done as a Zen garden with the world.”
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