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Silly Stories

Short, but sweet:
- Instructions for giving a cat a pill and How to give a cat a bath
- How to cut a dash in Swahili - Martin Gregory, from New Scientist (5 Nov 1994 p.47)
- Simian solution to monkey menace - From The Sydney Morning Herald (27 April 2001 p. 12)
- If Architects had to work like Programmers - Kevin Coheen, Associate Professor. Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Carleton University, Ontario, Canada. From a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy, original publication unknown.
- The Temperature of Heaven and Hell
- The Three Little Kittens and The Adventures of Fairy Bluebell - from Bedtime Stories read by Paté Biscuit (and Bongo)
- The Discovery of the NuIlitron by Thomas M. Disch and John T. Sladek
- Seal Sketch by The Frantics
- Worshippers-'R'-Us Sketch by The Frantics
- The Perfect CV, possibly from a Saturday Night Live skit.
- Comprehensive analysis of an aeroplane sign
Longer articles/excerpts:
- That Frog - A short story by Michael Shea, from Fantasy and Science Fiction Vol 62, No. 4, April 1982.
  Imagine, if you will, a frog that is bent on committing every foulness, every meanness, evil beyond your nastiest dreams. "A frog," you say, "A frog?"
- The North London Book of the Dead - a chapter from the book The Quantity Theory of Insanity by Will Self.
- How To Be An Alien - A Handbook for Beginners and More Advanced Pupils by George Mikes
- A chapter from Frankenstein is Alive and Well and Living with Mrs Frankenstein by Alida Baxter
Some off-site links:
- Limp Asparagus Lad - an occasional serial mocking superhero comic art and storylines. "I will remake Ame.rec.an civilisation - in *my* image." A figure stepped out of the shadows and into a splashpage. It was human, more or less: a white male in his sixties but with hair an icky shade of green. A gaggle of newts leered and gibbered from behind him. "I, the Gingrinch Who Stole Christmas!"

Still silly, but true

Stranger and sillier than fiction - tidbits from New Scientist magazine, including a report about Ballistic Ducks.
Selections from ABC News - includes Harrassment Therapy / Olympics-Free Zone / Pipe-Smoking Championships / Dame Edna and her Ballistic Gladioli / Quaint Place Names
True-Life Grit from Column 8 in The Sydney Morning Herald
The strange cases of Frederico the Goat and Mayor Puluapies
Gleanings from the Odd Spot column in The Melbourne Age newspaper
British doctors nail problem - it's not true what they say about soccer fans, is it?
Sterilise yourself with fear at the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices
Some excerpts from News of the Weird
Chickens in the News

Satire & Parody

A Child's Christmas in Warrnambool -- parody of "A Child's Christmas in Wales" by Dylan Thomas.
Have you filled out your McDonnel Douglas Warranty Card?
An aesthetically righteous letter from the Wagga Wagga Daily Advertiser, 22 October 1998
The plight of Persian carpet retailers, a letter in The Sydney Morning Herald, 19 November 2001
Kym Horsell on American Infomercials
Edgar Allen Poe vs. MS-DOS
Sponsor a Stevedore
Visual humour: Subtlety in Advertising from the Anarchist Teapot
II Mozilla 27:14-22
Are you a reading addict?

Online Cartoon Strips

Calvin & Hobbes (serial) archive. A sample.
You can search cartoons by text in Dave Tweed's Searchable Calvin & Hobbes Archive
Today's Kevin & Kell (serial). A sample. Another. Kevin & Kell archive.
Sluggy Freelance (serial). A sample.
Schlock Mercenary (serial).
Bruno the Bandit (serial). A sample.
This week's Dr. Fun. A sample.
Dilbert archive. A sample.
Bizarro
The Bob the Angry Flower collection. A sample. Another. And another. Yet another.
Max Cannon's weekly Red Meat archive. A sample. Another.
Robotman archive. A sample.
Mark Anderson's Cartoons & Illustrations
Ted Goff's Business Cartoons
Randy Glasbergen's Business Cartoons including my favourites on encryption, problems, left/right brain & approval
Nearing Zero (formerly Strange Matter & Bacchanalia)
The Afterlife of Bob files. A sample.
Cran and Lerma
'User Friendly' - a cartoon about a service provider. Archive.
Too Much Coffee Man. A sample. Another.
Bamdad Samii's collection of math cartoons
Webwombat's list of WWW comic strips

Silly People

Someone called 'Maddox' likes to rave. Here are his thoughts on blogging and the segway
Nancy Dunlap's Page of Delights
The Misanthropic Bitch
Many strange pages are listed at Oddities - Odd Site of the Week including:
Don't try this at home, kiddies.
Assorted Loonies on the Web

Silly WWW sites

The Polyorchid Religious Society
For those of a literary bent, you can't go past The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Food laws for children. Tips on parenting. Husband Speak.
Early Morning Hangover
Why did the chicken cross the road?
The Beard, by Uncle Al Schwartz.
Cybernetic Augmentation for Dummies
RealHamster.com
The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally kill themselves in really stupid ways.
A knockwurst sprite? A constipated baboon? Name This Creature!
News that didn't happen, but should have:
- WackyTimes
- The Onion
- TheToque - including Ferengi Monopoly, Klingon Scrabble, Jedi Car Salesman, Internet Counterfeiting and the darker side of Mr. Snuffaluffagus
- From Australia: The Chaser
The Australian Government's National Public Toilet Map
Europanto is a humourous pan-European spoof language
How to Annoy Animal Lovers - samples:
- Purchase 100 pet ID tags with their address and phone# on them, catch stray animals and attach the tags to them.
- Teach the rare parrot they are nursing back to health to squawk, "Eat me, I'm a chicken."
Competitive Activites:
Gord runs a video game store. The Acts of Gord is a collection of stories about the people he has to deal with every day. [The Faulty Gameshark] [The Mod Chips] [Assorted Morons]
Movie (requires Windows Media Player): Ping Pong meets The Matrix
www.angryalien.com -- 30 second condensed movies ... performed by cartoon rabbits.

Cartoon by Judy Haracek
From The Australian Magazine, Feb 2-3 2001, p.41

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