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The Merry Month of May: Laughter on the World Wide Web
And isn’t there an awful lot of that pointless, incessant barking on the Internet? But there are some fierce sites, some magical sites, some hella informative sites (I’m immersed in one on the art and science of building beehives at the moment), and some that just make me laugh out loud. (Sometimes, I don’t think this effect is intentional.)
I always bookmark a site that cheers me up when I see it, or when someone passes a link along, and I certainly have my favorites. Perhaps I’ll mention some of them in the comments. Meanwhile, won’t you please share the sites that make you laugh, and tell us why? (Please try and keep it clean, or at least let people know what they’re in for if they follow a link-of-ill-repute.)
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*Woof!*
Oh, sure. Put the handcuffs on.
90 Miles From Tyranny.
Commentary perhaps a tad to the right of me, at times, but generally pretty good. Plus GIFs and pictures and things. Beware, though; it can be a little spicy, if you know what I mean.
Is there such a thing?
I joined Instagram a couple of months ago so I could chat with my daughter while she was traveling out of country and have stayed on it cause I have fun… I follow the Babylon Bee and they usually give me a chuckle or a snort, and sometimes outright laughter with just their headlines. Like this one:
Here’s one of my favorite sites.
https://www.thefarside.com/
‘hant, I didn’t find the plotting of earthquakes very funny.
Well, there was Charlemagne. And Attila. And they didn’t call William the Conqueror “the Bastard” just because his mom and dad weren’t married …
Ha! The blog phenomenon has always struck me as a little sad in so many cases. People have such a need to be heard, and they make a blog and it gets lost in the ether usually. As far back as about 2003, my niece was wearing a t-shirt that said “NOBODY IS READING YOUR BLOG.”
Still, it’s good that people have this way of venting and writing their thoughts down and putting them out there. Well except for that one guy.
It’s always good to know what’s shakin’.
Quit dissing my ancestors.
Thanks Percival. I added this site to my bookmarks.
Apologies for being in absentia for a bit. My very helpful neighbor and I have been rounding up the third (and I hope this year’s last), swarm of bees on the farm. (Good thing nobody had a camera, otherwise I could populate a pretty funny website with some of our antics.)
I am a sucker for The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards (somewhere, there’s a post about them which I wrote a couple of years ago). I could look at funny pictures of animals all day.
Back in the dark ages (the 1990s) I loved webpagesthatsuck.com. Really good advice from web design professionals, who taught good practices by highlighting bad ones. In the days when we were advised to limit the size of each web page to about 10K (so that it would load in 2-3 seconds), when pictures for pictures’ sake (when perfectly good text would accomplish the same thing) were frowned upon, and when dynamic elements of any sort that jumped around on the screen were scorned, it was the gold standard. And I think I learned more to support my nascent sideline designing websites for small businesses from this one website than I did from any class I ever took, or any class I’ve ever read.
There’s always The Onion.
And I like the Good News Network. It’s not strictly a comedy site, and some of the articles aren’t for me, but some of the headlines make me smile. I mean, what’s not to like about one that reads Japanese Couple Uses The Fur From Their Cats To Make Whimsical Hats The Felines Like To Wear?
There are even pictures:
Some people must not have enough bee swarms to fuss over . . .
Powerline’s The Week in Pictures (usually posted on Saturdays) and Midweek in Pictures (usually posted on Wednesdays). Lots of good fun.
For example: Never mind – it won’t load. But something to look forward to.
http://www.eyeofthetiber.com
https://xkcd.com
http://davebarry.com
https://babylonbee.com
http://existentialcomics.com
Yes. I love that one too.
If only Rob Long could post the Long View ( from NR) on the Member Feed.
Hm. You might have to make do with this, instead.
Another regular column on Powerline that I always check out (Fridays) is Thoughts from the Ammo Line. She’s sort of a gun-toting, Trump-supporting, 21st-century, Erma Bombeck.
Here’s a sample from last week’s column. (She’s talking about the Democrat slate of presidential candidates):
I love her.
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I have loved this one in the past, and you brought it to mind again. Still good: Cake Wrecks.
Oh, I had forgotten about that one. Thanks for the reminder!
I quit visiting humeris websights when Walter Miller’s Home page went away.