Archive for the 'Humor' Tag

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Humor: Al Murray vs. Americans

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In an effort to provide the new U.S. administration with a first hand experience on how your European Allies really tick, here’s a 6 minute cut of British comedian Al Murray talking about Americans.

Al Murray at his finest.

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Cartoons: United Features opens archive

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United Features, the home of more than 90 great comics like the Peanuts, Speed Bump or Mike Luckovich (our favorite) has opened its archives of daily cartoons for free on its web site comics.com.

Besides providing the complete archives of many cartoons that go back years (with the Peanuts to October 1950 - more than 20,000 strips), you can also create yourself a custom RSS feed from the different artists that will include…

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Humor: Counting Sheep

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Not tired when its time to sleep or having spent too much time in the office with your head on the desk. This little Flash application might help.

Unfortunately little Bah-Bah can’t count further than 40 so we are missing the pleasure listening to a sheep saying one thousand three hundred thirty three.

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Humor: Pay Rises

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In quite a few countries around the globe the next rounds of pay negotiations will soon start or have just started. And this time those negotiations most likely in a few countries might turn out to end in fights for workers getting at least the inflationary price increases covered.

Interestingly enough while those managers that have caused the current world wide economic crisis have recently given themselves pay rises of 20% or more (plus of course millions in bonus and dividend payments) they are once more demonstrating complete resistance to let those who create the results participate - even with a minimal share. And based on recent publications real inflation e.g. in the UK is actually closer to 18% and not around the 3-4% published by the government.

Now here’s an image to help sustain these hardships and to make you feel better (or at least smile).

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Humor: Simpsons parody of Mad Men

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A great parody of the trailer for the TV series Mad Men from “The Simpsons”.

It will be aired as part of their Halloween special this week.

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Humor: Good Breeding

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These two pandas attempt to mate, but things don’t work quite right. The video is Alex Berry’s senior animation project at RIT. The music is by Tchaikovsky.

This great animation is one of this year’s AniBoom Awards finalists.

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Drawings: Calamity coach

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Aaron Costain has created a series of 13 drawings with reasons not to travel. The series called “Calamity coach” is a “…sequence of imaginary events designed to discourage even the bravest of souls from vehicular travel…

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Humor: The political Barbie

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New “Talking Points” Caribou Barbie™ repeats phrases at random–you never know what she’ll say next! Doll really talks with eyes that move.* Includes hunting rifle, moose carcass, Bible and every single newspaper–Caribou Barbie™ reads them all!

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Music: Ode to Joy

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Today some classical music for the evening - Beethoven’s Ode to Joy performed in a very special way

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Humor: Music videos about the Financial crisis

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Four music videos on the banking crisis based on some all time classics - from Elton John’s Candles in the Wind / Bankers in the Wind to Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire / Wall Street Meltdown

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