14 posts tagged “funny”
If I have a writing assignment in Spanish, I like to put it into Babel Fish just to check to make sure the gist of it is clear (I know online translators are a bit ridiculous, but it's better than nothing). Here's what happened to one of my sentences because of one wrong letter:
"Nevertheless, my passion and my love always the music composition was AIDS, something I have made all my life."
...Híjole.
Often when I see something completely ridiculous, I think to myself, "What if this was the only thing people in the distant future had to judge the world of today by? What would they think of us?" Sometimes I take it further and wonder, "What if another alien species was judging the entire human race based on this single shred of evidence? As this just happened, I've been inspired to start a new segment on my Vox entitled "Today from Tomorrow's Perspective." (Or perhaps something snazzier than that when I'm feeling more creative.)
In these posts, I invite you to imagine what the society/species that would produce such a video/picture/etc. might be like. Then I ask that you remember: it's us. We made this crap. With our own bizarre hands. Feel free to leave a comment with your thoughts.
Sometimes the subjects of these posts may be serious and even depressing. Tonight, however, is not one of those times. Tell me: what would the society that produced this music video be like?
Edited to Add: This video was discovered upon my being rickrolled. I can't keep up with the Internet memes anymore. I used to be so cool, in an Internet nerd sort of way.
Never having been a churchgoing gal until I got a job in a church choir in college, I don't know much about Biblical stories. Fortunately, my homeschooled-yet-rebellious boyfriend is all up on the Bible knowledge, so if I ever need to know something, I can ask him. One of my books commented on the use of music as a relaxation technique throughout history by referencing David and King Saul. I asked Brian to explain this story to me. Here's his version, straight from the Yahoo messenger window:
"david was a shepherd for his father and wahtev, and there's the war going on with the philistines and it's all a big deal
we're talking saving private ryan here.
and david was a well known for his music abilities like playing lute on the hillside n shit.
totall hippie
but a bad ass none the less...and see this is why it can't be true, because there are stories of how he killed like, a bear with his bare hands, and killed a lion with his famous sling.
musicians are nowhere near that physical
so he's hanging out somewhere near the war zone, i guess cause his brother was fighting
that was it, he used to take shit to his brothers at the battle.
and the king was in his tent all stressin out cause they were getting their chosen asses kicked
y'know they were the chosen people
so david's all I'll play music for the king and he'll be all chill and then you guys can fight again
so they bring him in and he plays some blues and a little classic rock just to set the mood.
he gets things goin and everybody's much happier and david's all "in" for helping the king
then he goes wacko and says "oh I can defeat the big giant dude with my sling!"
you know the rest."
If church told stories that way, everyone would go!
Well, temporarily at least.
As my parents spend 1-2 months living in a hotel, I get to keep Chloe, the cat formerly known as Tashi. Of course, this means I feel compelled to spoil her and have all sorts of fun I don't normally get to have in my no-pets apartment. Yesterday my mom and I made a trip to PetSmart, and in addition to getting her some toys we found this crazy cat mat thingie, recommended to us by a lady buying toys for her cat. It contains what is appropriately called "zoom-around-the-room catnip," and has made Chloe a complete drug addict. The cat. Is. Insane.
Now, don't get me wrong. She's pretty crazy a lot of the time. (As a matter of fact, her favorite thing to do in my apartment is hide, wait till I walk past, then zoom past me in the direction I'm going, effectively scaring the shit out of me.) But this has taken her madness to the power of 10. It's craziness!
Enjoy this craptastical quality, soundless video:
I'm going through old LJ entries and finding previous Gems. Here's what I've found so far:
Sunday, July 1st, 2007:
Neighbor: "WHOA!" (loud enough to be clearly heard through the wall)
A few seconds later...
sound of a toilet flushing
(Can you call it "blogging" if you mostly just keep making brief, pointless posts?)
I always find it hilarious to get a paper back from a professor and find a food stain on said paper. It's like... "Hey, my professor eats. And he/she ate while grading my paper. And got food on my paper." I'm not sure if it's an insult or a compliment, but it's funny either way.
That's fantastic.
You know how gmail gives you little sponsored ads that it thinks are relevant to your interests?
Apparently pee and poo dolls are relevant to mine.
...Oh, gmail. I thank you for this. Now I just have to figure out who to give this to as a birthday or Christmas gift.
Since we're on the topic of odd plush things... you might already know about Giant Microbes, but if not... enjoy.
Video: Share a video that makes you laugh every time you watch it.
So what if I'm answering this again?! I have lots of funny videos to share with the world!
I remembered one that I didn't discover on YouTube. I love the show Scrubs, and here's one of many reasons why:
