Showing posts with label humor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humor. Show all posts

July 24 - Tell an Old Joke Day

Posted on July 24, 2020

How many lawyers does it take to change a lightbulb?
Answer: How many can you afford?

How many magicians does it take to change a lightbulb?
Answer: It depends on what you want to change it into!

 Why did the chicken cross the road?
Answer: To get to the other side.

 Why did the chicken cross the playground?
Answer: To get to the other slide!

What's the difference between a tuna, some glue, and a piano?




Answer: You can tuna piano, but you can't piano a tuna.
Huh? What about the glue?
Answer: I knew you'd get stuck on that!

 What's the difference between ignorance and apathy? 
Answer: I don't know and I don't care.

Happy Tell an Old Joke Day! 

 Whether you use one of the old-standards like crossing-the-road jokes, or a stand-alone but funny-at-least-to-you old joke, today's the day to crack people up or maybe make them groan. E-mail, text, call, or zoom old jokes to friends and family, and hopefully today will be a little lighter and a little smilier for it! 

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August 18 – National Badge Ribbon Day

Posted on August 18, 2019

Here's something I know NOTHING about:

Badge ribbons.

The origin of this little item is something I DO know about: the lowly name tag. Instead of one of those dreadful stick-em name tags (which always and forever gets caught in my long hair), attendees of important conferences and conventions and award ceremonies often get nicely printed name tags that fit into plastic name tag holders. They are generally worn around the neck or clipped on:



These name tags are often called badges.

It used to be that, in some conferences (etc.), certain categories of people needed to be indicated on the badge or name tag. For example, it's helpful to all the organizers, the wait staff, and the other attendees to know that this person is one of the award winners and that person is a judge, that this person is one of the speakers, he's a board member, she's a sponsor, and this woman over here is the organization's president. At other conferences, it's great to know which company, university, or school each person is associated with. 

When a categorization is handled with something subtle like a colored dot, it's hard to remember that, say, red means Harvard University and yellow means Yale. For this reason, printed ribbons are often attached to the badges. Sometimes one person will have quite a lot of ribbons.


Enter someone's fun idea: what if people were offered funny badge ribbons? Would anyone wear them?

According to PCNameTag, badge ribbons like "My Ribbon Is Better Than Yours," "Bored Member," and "Awesomesauce" are really popular, and they can be used as freebies to attract people to, say, come to a particular booth or participate in a particular activity.




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January 2 – Happy Mew Year for Cats

Posted on January 2, 2019


Today's holiday is, I guess, supposed to be funny - and is at least purrrr-fectly punny! 

If only cats were litter-ate, they would be feline pretty good about the wordplay. 





Cats and kittens make up a surprisingly large part of the internet - funny cat videos, adorably fluffy pics, Lolcat and Grumpy Cat memes, chubby cat gifs, and so forth. 



ThoughtCatalog once said that cats are the "unofficial mascot of the Internet," and 16% of the views of YouTube's pets and animals category - way more views than would be proportional to the number of species represented in that category!



I think cat jokes and general cat humor are popular because - on the one hand - cats seem so cool, above it all, so graceful and beautiful...









...and - on the other hand - they can also be silly and playful, they can be scared-y cats, they can be overly daring and get themselves into trouble!








Happy Mew Year to all my cat friends!





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