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Here, I will collect Random Wikipedia Stuff that I found pretty funny, but isn't really worthy of sticking to other specialised humor collections.
Random collection of interesting phrases
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Or, a practical illustration on why we need
context
to survive.
- "Most scripting languages are oriented at banging out Web pages. This is oriented around interfaces that are highly animated."
- —
James Gosling
on
JavaFX
[1]
[2]
(In the series of "smart people saying embarrassing things". Yeah. Animation. We clearly need more web interfaces with animation. =)
- Unfortunately, this ultimately looks awkward as dinosaurs often stumble around and contort to wild, impossible positions.
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Jurassic Park: Trespasser
[3]
More funny stuff will come later when I find the file I was maintaining once, and remove the BLP'd stuff...
Perplexing pictures (and even more perplexing captions)
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"What's going on?"
Confused wolves are funny!
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Infrared dogs are funny! Canid fur is goo-ood at not letting too-oo much useful heat escape, so dogs and wolves do just fine in the North! (I somewhat wonder if there are infra
red foxes
out there!)
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In Finnish Wikipedia, this picture is captioned "George H.W. Bush and Gorbachev in Helsinki in 1990". Politics is difficult! I would have
never
guessed what this picture was about without the caption!
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Can artificial objects be considered "cute"? Space Shuttle Discovery looks pretty adorable here.
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I'm tempted to put a label to my
Guitar Hero
controller, next to the Xbox Guide button: "This Button Starts Up Xboxes".
Yeah, it's clearly 3 AM when I find this stuff funny.
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Is this
decent?
I... don't know an answer to that question. Is it
clever?
Uh, I suppose!
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I know there's a video game called
Tetanus on Drugs
. But have you seen
Titanic
on Drugs? (OK, it's really the
Olympic
, but still.)
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"What the heck nowww?"
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"That was so funny! How did it go again?"
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"I'm a turtle. Honest. Some joker pulled the plug. Could you
please
re-inflate me?"