While working on my previous entry I found that rooting around the
net, and in particular Wikipedia, can be very enlightening.
The real basic stuff; a list of Homer Simpson's Jobs,
a bio on Hunter S.Thompson, information on chaos theory and such was just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. As time went on and page after page was flipped I began to realize the girth of information and limitless comedy hidden within the site.
What follows is what I came across in 8 to 10 hours of completely
random searching. Odd as they may seem I'm sure (with a few hours to kill) your finds could easily trump my own. But still, enjoy:
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo"
is a grammatically correct sentence. Sentences of this type,
although not in such a refined form, have been known for a long time.
A classic example is the proverb "Don't trouble trouble until
trouble troubles you".
Tomacco is originally a fictional food that is half tomato and half
tobacco, from the 1999 episode "E-I-E-I-Do'h" of the animated
television series The Simpsons. The tomacco became real when it
was produced in 2003. The tomacco is one of the few made-up words in
The Simpsons that resulted in real life application.
Morton's toe is the common term for the second toe (second from
innermost) extending further than the great toe.
Mike the Headless Chicken (April 1945 – March 1947) was a Wyandotte rooster (cockerel) that lived for 18 months after its head had been cut off. Thought by many to be a hoax, the bird was taken by its owner to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City to establish its authenticity.
Logorrhoea is defined as an “excessive flow of words” and, when used medically, refers to incoherent talkativeness that occurs in certain kinds of mental illness, such as mania. The spoken form of logorrhoea is a kind of verbosity that uses superfluous or fancy words to disguise a useless or simple message as useful or intellectual, and is commonly known as “diarrhea of the mouth.”
Dark Side of the Rainbow (also known as Dark Side of Oz or
The Wizard of Floyd) is the name used to refer to the act of
listening to the 1973 Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon
while watching the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz for moments where
the film and the album appear to correspond with each other.
Dwarf tossing is a bar attraction in which dwarfs wearing special
padded clothing or Velcro costumes are thrown onto mattresses or at
Velcro-coated walls. Participants compete to throw the dwarf the
farthest. The term "dwarf throwing" is sometimes used.
The Principle of Evil Marksmanship (also known as the Stormtrooper Effect among Star Wars fans) is that enemy marksmen in action films are often very bad shots and almost never harm the main characters. Defined as: “ The bad guys are always lousy shots in the movies. Three villains with Uzis will go after the hero, spraying thousands of rounds which miss him, after which he picks them off with a handgun.
Lewis is the name of a cat from Fairfield, Connecticut who garnered
mass media attention for being placed under house arrest in March 2006.
DISH is a town in Denton County, Texas, United States. The town has
a population of approximately 345. Formerly called Clark, the town
was officially renamed DISH (all capital letters) on November 16,
2005. In exchange for renaming the town, all residents of the town have
received free basic television service for ten years and a free DVR
from DISH Network.
Fan death is a South Korean urban legend which states that an electric fan, if left running overnight in a closed room, can result in the death (by suffocation, poisoning, or hypothermia) of those inside. This belief also extends to air conditioners. Fans manufactured and sold in Korea are equipped with a timer switch that turns them off after a set number of minutes, which users are frequently urged to set when going to sleep with a fan on.
net, and in particular Wikipedia, can be very enlightening.
The real basic stuff; a list of Homer Simpson's Jobs,
a bio on Hunter S.Thompson, information on chaos theory and such was just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. As time went on and page after page was flipped I began to realize the girth of information and limitless comedy hidden within the site.
What follows is what I came across in 8 to 10 hours of completely
random searching. Odd as they may seem I'm sure (with a few hours to kill) your finds could easily trump my own. But still, enjoy:
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo"
is a grammatically correct sentence. Sentences of this type,
although not in such a refined form, have been known for a long time.
A classic example is the proverb "Don't trouble trouble until
trouble troubles you".
Tomacco is originally a fictional food that is half tomato and half
tobacco, from the 1999 episode "E-I-E-I-Do'h" of the animated
television series The Simpsons. The tomacco became real when it
was produced in 2003. The tomacco is one of the few made-up words in
The Simpsons that resulted in real life application.
Morton's toe is the common term for the second toe (second from
innermost) extending further than the great toe.
Mike the Headless Chicken (April 1945 – March 1947) was a Wyandotte rooster (cockerel) that lived for 18 months after its head had been cut off. Thought by many to be a hoax, the bird was taken by its owner to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City to establish its authenticity.
Logorrhoea is defined as an “excessive flow of words” and, when used medically, refers to incoherent talkativeness that occurs in certain kinds of mental illness, such as mania. The spoken form of logorrhoea is a kind of verbosity that uses superfluous or fancy words to disguise a useless or simple message as useful or intellectual, and is commonly known as “diarrhea of the mouth.”
Dark Side of the Rainbow (also known as Dark Side of Oz or
The Wizard of Floyd) is the name used to refer to the act of
listening to the 1973 Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon
while watching the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz for moments where
the film and the album appear to correspond with each other.
Dwarf tossing is a bar attraction in which dwarfs wearing special
padded clothing or Velcro costumes are thrown onto mattresses or at
Velcro-coated walls. Participants compete to throw the dwarf the
farthest. The term "dwarf throwing" is sometimes used.
The Principle of Evil Marksmanship (also known as the Stormtrooper Effect among Star Wars fans) is that enemy marksmen in action films are often very bad shots and almost never harm the main characters. Defined as: “ The bad guys are always lousy shots in the movies. Three villains with Uzis will go after the hero, spraying thousands of rounds which miss him, after which he picks them off with a handgun.
Lewis is the name of a cat from Fairfield, Connecticut who garnered
mass media attention for being placed under house arrest in March 2006.
DISH is a town in Denton County, Texas, United States. The town has
a population of approximately 345. Formerly called Clark, the town
was officially renamed DISH (all capital letters) on November 16,
2005. In exchange for renaming the town, all residents of the town have
received free basic television service for ten years and a free DVR
from DISH Network.
Fan death is a South Korean urban legend which states that an electric fan, if left running overnight in a closed room, can result in the death (by suffocation, poisoning, or hypothermia) of those inside. This belief also extends to air conditioners. Fans manufactured and sold in Korea are equipped with a timer switch that turns them off after a set number of minutes, which users are frequently urged to set when going to sleep with a fan on.
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