Funny Things That Are Still Funny

Even if some are so old they have to be rescued from linkrot

By the schedule I laid out there should be a more substantial post today, but I have had another rough week, and at this point I can’t manage one. So in lieu of that, here are some funny things I saw over the years that are still funny.

Internet classics

• Star Wars Lines Improved by Replacing a Word with "Pants"

• They’re Made of Meat

• Let’s say you’ve gone back in time.

• Matt Taibi reviews Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat

• The Top 100 Things I’d Do If I Ever Became an Evil Overlord

• A military analyis of the Battle of Hoth

• Hobbes and Bacon: a sequel to Calvin & Hobbes set 25 years later

• The saga of the hat

• The Wire: The Musical

• Uncomfortable Plot Summaries

• Donald Knuth. Disaster voyeurism.

• Garfield without Garfield (less famous but also good: Garfield without captions)

• Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions

Less well known

• This parody lateral thinking test (which takes a while to get going, starts serious & goes awry) may be the funniest thing on this list.

• The comments on God’s blog

• 18th-Century Connecticutian or Muppet?

• 11 Funniest Classfied Ads Ever

• Honest titles for classic fantasy novels

• My first dictionary

• Back-translated subtitles from the Chinese version of The Revenge of the Sith

• Plot holes in WW2

• If Series Set In the Modern Day Were Written Like Sci-Fi Series

• Sayings of the Jewish Buddah

• How to win a fight against twenty children

• In a Mass Knife Fight to the Death Between Every American President, Who Would Win and Why?

• Rudolph the Red-Eyed Dragon

For Comics Nerds Only

• Dr. Doom’s top ten euphemisms for sex

• Enter Stilt Man - enter Radical Awesomeness.

• Wolverine—or two bat men?

I hope to have a real post next week. But life has been throwing me a lot of knuckleballs lately, so we’ll have to see.