Category: Comedy
Happy Valentines Day everybody!
by Graham 
While we ponder this most loving of days, let's also take a small amount of time out to consider this delightful letter sent by Pastor Billy Ball of Faith Baptist Church, Primrose, Georgia to Pam Spaulding in 2007.
As one commenter on the blog remarked… more »
02/14/09 01:23:13 pm, Complaint letters
by Graham
I have seen a number of amusing complaint letters over the years, but this one from an irate and pissed-off customer of the UK telecom company NTL is my favorite...I first found it on the Internet 5 years ago, lost it, and now I just found it again.
WA… more »
Satire - 10 reasons why gay marriage is wrong
by Graham
Satire and ridicule are often powerful weapons against entrenched foolishness and stupidity. This diary at DailyKos seeks to shine a satirical light on the bigoted antipathy that many people seem to hold towards same-sex couples and same-sex marriage.
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Colemanballs and other examples of mis-speak
by Graham
The ex-BBC sports commentator David Coleman found his name (not 100% fairly) appropriated in the 1970's to describe an example of nonsense speech by commentators. They were dubbed "Colemanballs". Example follows:
For those of you with the black-and-whit… more »
On this day, April 1st...
by Graham
...we pause for a moment to salute The Guardian newspaper, which in 1977 unleashed one of the great April Fool's Day hoaxes - the fictional island archipelago of San Serriffe. This spawned many April 1st imitators. I remember buying the University Of San… more »
Move over Fawlty Towers...
by Graham
My sister is a co-owner of a restaurant in Polperro, Cornwall - The Pol Mary Restaurant. This is primarily a tourist restaurant. Needless to say, they get all types of customers, from the extremely nice and polite to the rude, demanding and obnoxious. Ho… more »
a game to play in tedious business meetings...
by Graham
...you too can re-use all of those vacuous leadership and project management slogans... more »
Funny and thought-provoking questions
by Graham
Some of these read like reject Steven Wright lines, and the answer to (4) is obvious to anybody who knows anything about evolution and the origins of man...but I am being way too picky. Here is the list:
1. DON'T SWEAT THE PETTY THINGS AND DON'T PET T… more »
Some biting satire....
by Graham
...from the blogger Megaphone of Destiny on what not to do if you are a closeted gay Republican...in the words of Derek and Clive..."laugh? we nearly shat..." more »