Category Archives: On Things I Find Funny

He’s alive but unconscious…just like Gerald Ford!

No, that’s not my joke in the post title, that’s a quote from Airplane! Anyway, tonight for dinner I made nachos, and I washed down my nachos with beer. Beer and nachos…this makes me remember this scene from The Simpsons. I hope … Continue reading

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“He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.” (Job 8:21)

I saw these two memes over the last day or two, and I vetted them with Christian friends who vouched that they are, in fact, funny. So:  

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No, Robert AND Bruce. Not Robert THE Bruce. That’s different.

I’ve seen a few of these photos surfacing online the last few months, and they make me really happy because there’s a kind of absurdity going on. These are behind-the-scenes snapshots from JAWS, featuring actor Robert Shaw and “Bruce” the Shark, … Continue reading

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If you know, you know

Behold, the CJ Cregg Memorial Globe: (Fine, if you need the explanation)  

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Medieval Marginalia

I saw this on social media earlier: a sketch of a dog poking his way through the page of a book, depicted appropriately on both sides of the page. I suppose the monks only had a few solid ways of … Continue reading

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I’m glad I didn’t know about the “jorb”…

…when I started writing The Song of Forgotten Stars! (credit)  

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A memory….

Not sure why this popped into my head, but it’s always worth revisiting Mr. Martin’s thoughts about art and commercialism.  

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But I’m a Henry V fan….

Interested in the Plantagenets or the Stuarts? Keep checking telephone poles, folks.  

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Bad Joke Friday: THE RETURN!!!

I used to run this weekly (kinda-sorta, you have to be patient with me when it comes to “weekly” features) item in the old days of Byzantium’s Shores, and as The Daughter texted me this one just an hour or so … Continue reading

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Baineses need not apply

Apparently if your first, middle, or last name is Lyndon, you get free admission to the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library. Generations of people named “Baines” are vexed by this, I imagine!

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