Humor Articles

Humor | By Catherine Harvey @ Monday, 25th February 2008 @ 3:55 PM

The world of projector installation has kept me busy for some time now. Not a vocation as such but I do like to take a pride in my work. I've seen the inside of all manner of schools and teaching institutions during this job. From the upper class private schools who use projector installation for inbuilt cinema entertainment to the local comprehensives who have just discovered technology. Last week, we went to a nursing college in the nearby town who wanted projector installation car... more...

Humor | By Knight Pierce Hirst @ Monday, 25th February 2008 @ 3:33 PM

I dream the same dream over and over. I'm in a strange place looking for things that belong to me so I can take them home. Supposedly dreams are the voice of our subconscious, but I have no idea what my subconscious is trying to tell me or why it keeps repeating itself. Maybe it's nothing for me to worry about. Maybe my subconscious stutters. According to experts, when a person chases me in my dreams, the person is actually my feelings of anger, frustration - or even love. I�... more...

Humor | By Knight Pierce Hirst @ Monday, 25th February 2008 @ 2:31 PM

The Linuses of this world leave litter in their wake. It makes me wonder what their homes look like. It's the people who don't put the refuse of their lives in the proper receptacles who put the rash in trash. Once when my grandmother was traveling by train, she put her unfinished lunch back in the box. She even retied the string around the box - making it obvious where I inherited my compulsiveness. Although she didn't think leaving the box on the train was littering, she... more...

Humor | By Knight Pierce Hirst @ Monday, 25th February 2008 @ 8:22 AM

Every day there's something new about what foods are good for us and what ones aren't. Whether eggs, coffee and chocolate are good or bad depends on who's talking. Red wine is supposedly good because it has an anti-aging ingredient, but I expect experts will change their minds about wine too. If wine has an anti-aging ingredient, why does it improve with age? From a very young age I was told to eat all my vegetables because they're rich in vitamins and minerals. Carro... more...

Humor | By Konrad Braun @ Monday, 25th February 2008 @ 2:46 AM

Free videos are an excellent source of online entertainment. They can and may be clips from television shows, commercials, or even a scene from a movie. They could also be home videos, animated videos, amateur film, etc. Free videos are legion and can be viewed on numerous sites all over the world wide web. Not only are they a great recreational activity, but they also support budding producers and actors. Many free videos are made by amateur or independent artists, who start their caree... more...

Humor | By Jack Deal @ Tuesday, 5th February 2008 @ 1:22 AM

For Gringos, hammocks are for putting up in the backyard at siesta time. Cartoons show a sleeping hammocker getting spun up into his backyard hammock. But for millions of people living in the tropics, hammocks are a way of life. And a way of rest and sleep. In my earlier years in Veracruz we used hammocks but not nearly as much as we do on the Yucatan peninsula. Here every house has one and usually many; even the most pretentious rich have hammocks since they are so restful and coo... more...

Humor | By Jack Deal @ Monday, 4th February 2008 @ 2:49 AM

As a kid, Sherlock Holmes was my hero. Here was really a cool guy if there ever was one. He knew almost everything about everything and could solve almost any crime, even crimes that had stumped Her Majesty's best. But even Sherlock had his days. On those rare but revealing occasions when our good Sherlock was bested, he had to swallow his pride, no small task, and go and seek counsel with his older brother Mycroft. Mycroft lived at the gentleman's club Diogenes, a place... more...

Humor | By Anna Stenning @ Sunday, 3rd February 2008 @ 9:34 PM

Going back a few years when I first moved out of my parents home to live in London, in University halls of residence, I remember feeling more excited than scared. The world of independence, no curfews and late night parties were something that had overwhelmed my senses. I felt extremely elated the first day I had arrived at my flat, knowing that this was the beginning of some exciting times. However, I was soon going to learn that maybe I should have prepared better for the daunting task of keep... more...

Humor | By Jack Deal @ Sunday, 3rd February 2008 @ 1:49 AM

It all started on a trip to Quintana Roo to do a feasibility study for an eco-tourism project in the Sian Ka'an biological reserve. Part of the project's challenge was that all food and palapa building materials had to be brought in as nothing could be cut or grown within the reserve. In other words, to make the project work, all food and building materials had to be sourced outside the reserve. No small chore. The key was to source on the mainland near the city of Felipe ... more...

Humor | By Jim Pretin @ Wednesday, 30th January 2008 @ 6:50 PM

If you're like me, you spend hours surfing the internet looking for weird stuff that you've never seen or read about before. During my extensive research one evening, as I scoured cyberspace to find some new and unusual crap to entertain myself with, I finally found what I was looking for. At about 2:00 A.M. on a Thursday night, I couldn't relax, couldn't sleep, so I traveled downstairs to the computer and went online to find some information about meditation or relaxa... more...

Humor | By Jack Deal @ Saturday, 26th January 2008 @ 5:11 AM

Three guys up in trees are winning the war of words and nerves against the multi-billion University of California system. The three guys and their supporters are bringing the highly taunted University of California to its administrative and intellectual knees, thus begging the question of the value of a higher UC education. Protesting against UCSC expansion, the treesitters are now fighting the system all the way up to the University Regents level, a sort of David and Goliath sidesho... more...

Humor | By Jack Deal @ Thursday, 24th January 2008 @ 1:57 AM

You know you are there when you have diarrhea and are throwing up at the same time. You just have to lose those pounds and it just doesn't get any better than losing them on both ends. What you really need is an IV drip since you are losing fluids so rapidly but who cares, water is weight and weight is public and private enemy number one, no? You grin and bear it... The experts tell us dysentery or as it is known South of the Border, 'turista', is simply the bacteria in... more...

Humor | By Catherine Harvey @ Friday, 18th January 2008 @ 2:09 AM

You don't get to forty years of age without your fair share of disastrous relationships - and I've had more than my fair share. I'm giving the whole business a wide berth from now on. After all, what do I need a man for? I've been of this opinion for a year now and there have been some times along the way when, as much as it pains me to say it, I could have done with a man around. There was the time when the car died and I had to take it to the garage by myself... more...

Humor | By Knight Pierce Hirst @ Monday, 14th January 2008 @ 10:10 PM

Four leaf clovers, rabbits' feet, horse shoes - some people think these are good luck. I thought a toy mouse was good luck until I lost it. Then I asked myself how I could have the misfortune to lose something that was meant to bring me good fortune. Now people bring me good fortune - especially when they wash the dishes, do the laundry or let me sleep late. A shirt, a tie, a hat - some people have lucky clothes. They wear these clothes on job interviews, to the race track and on bl... more...

Humor | By Knight Pierce Hirst @ Monday, 14th January 2008 @ 10:05 PM

Inventors start with an idea about how to do something or how to do something better. For example, staples aren't just for holding papers together anymore. Carpenters use them to hold boards together and doctors use them to hold skin together. A couple of years ago an emergency room doctor used four staples to hold a cut on my head together. Ever since, however, I've thought someone should reinvent the staple remover. Something else that holds our world together is the zipper, ... more...

Humor | By Knight Pierce Hirst @ Sunday, 13th January 2008 @ 3:01 PM

Belgium is the birthplace of the spa. It's also the land of rich chocolates. To me that says heaven. To my pocketbook it says a Hershey Bar on the way to "Spas R Us". Once a month I have a facial at Spas R US. My face is bathed in warm vapors, kneaded with various oils, exfoliated with an herbal mask and wrapped in cool towels. My grandmother didn't believe in facials. She believed that good skin came from good living. Well grandmother, considering the cost of facials, ... more...

Humor | By Knight Pierce Hirst @ Sunday, 13th January 2008 @ 2:04 PM

Going new places, seeing new sights, trying new things - travel broadens the mind. If you don't exercise when you travel, however, it broadens the hips too. When John and I were first married, we took lots of trips. Then came kids. Then came braces and camp and college funds. John and I still took trips, but they were a lot closer to home. They were guilt trips. Before we go on a trip John does extensive research. He reads material from the library, he buys books and he sea... more...

Humor | By Shaun Parker @ Thursday, 10th January 2008 @ 3:06 PM

Having worked for IT support services in London for many years I have accumulated a large network of friends and colleagues in the business. The other night my fellow IT support workers met in a London bar for a get together; as per usual on these occasions the conversation soon turned to some of the funny requests that we in the business of IT support have experienced. The first came from one of my older friends who had been in the IT support industry from the beginning. He recalled a st... more...

Humor | By Catherine Harvey @ Thursday, 10th January 2008 @ 3:03 PM

I'm off to see my girlfriend today. Morag McTavish is the light of my life and anything her little heart desires, she gets. In the past I've brought her a new collar studded with pink rhinestones, a new bone china drinking bowl and a coat of fox fur. I've taken Morag for long, romantic walks up on the hills, we've been for fun nights out on the town laughing at the drunk humans and, when her owners have allowed me indoors, we've even snuggled up in front of the fi... more...

Humor | By Knight Pierce Hirst @ Wednesday, 9th January 2008 @ 10:19 PM

When it came to decorations, my grandmother told me not to wrap a disappointment. By that she meant not to make a gift look better than it actually was. Because I'm gift wrap challenged - paper held together by lots of tape and topped with a stick-on bow - that's not a problem. Recently, however, I received a gift that was too pretty to open - so I didn't. The stack of five, gold and silver boxes tied with silver, mesh ribbon was sent by a gourmet cookie company as a thank... more...