Debunking Humor...

[Mendel]

Witness 1: Alert! Alert! There's a fire over there!

Sir, this is Antarctica.

 

[Todd Feinman]

UFO Witness: "Look, there's a UFO up there!"
Skeptic: "Nah, those don't exist!"
UFO Witness: "No! Look! It's a saucer! And it's coming closer"
Skeptic: "No way! That's a bird wanting to be fed, or a deflating balloon, of course!"
UFO Witness: "My god, it's right above you, zig-zagging back and forth, man!"
Skeptic: "Nope! It's a big hat, or it might be a hubcap someone has thrown at us, and that's parallax."
UFO Witness: "Good Lord! It's right on your head!!"
Skeptic: "No it's not! It's just an illusion; the hat is on a distant hill."
UFO Witness: "No! It's on your head! Right on your head!!"
Skeptic: <slurping noise>
UFO Witness: "You headlander!! It's sucked out your brain!"
Skeptic: "No it hasn't, human.."

 

[JMartJr]

Sir, this is Antarctica.

I know, the pyramid is on fire.

 

[JMartJr]

UFO Witness: "Look, there's a UFO up there!"
Skeptic: "Nah, those don't exist!"
UFO Witness: "No! Look! It's a saucer! And it's coming closer"
Skeptic: "No way! That's a bird wanting to be fed, or a deflating balloon, of course!"
UFO Witness: "My god, it's right above you, zig-zagging back and forth, man!"
Skeptic: "Nope! It's a big hat, or it might be a hubcap someone has thrown at us, and that's parallax."
UFO Witness: "Good Lord! It's right on your head!!"
Skeptic: "No it's not! It's just an illusion; the hat is on a distant hill."
UFO Witness: "No! It's on your head! Right on your head!!"
Skeptic: "Click.. Click.Click…. Cliiiick…"

Lost me at the clicks -- not sure what that's referring to?

 

[Todd Feinman]

Lost me at the clicks -- not sure what that's referring to?

Fixed it. Was Disclosure Day reference (which I haven't seen!).

 

[JMartJr]

 

[NoParty]

Lost me at the clicks...

You made it t' the clicks?!?
You're a better man than me.

 

[Gary C]

Oldest scam ever ...

 

[Todd Feinman]

You made it t' the clicks?!?
You're a better man than me.

Aww. I make it through all of the repetitive fairy talk! It's my duty!

 

[Mendel]

Skeptic: "Nope! It's a big hat, or it might be a hubcap someone has thrown at us, and that's parallax."
UFO Witness: "Good Lord! It's right on your head!!"
Skeptic: "No it's not! It's just an illusion; the hat is on a distant hill."

That's not how parallax works. Nor how perspective works.
(cue the Father Ted clip. It does NOT say "small and far away".)

But you can count on the UFO witness in your story to fail to take a clear photo.

 

[Mendel]

I know, the pyramid is on fire.

Dang, that's a hot summer.

No points for pointing out the factual inaccuracies of this reply.

 

[Todd Feinman]

That's not how parallax works. Nor how perspective works.
(cue the Father Ted clip. It does NOT say "small and far away".)

But you can count on the UFO witness in your story to fail to take a clear photo.

Oh I see! Thank you.

 

[Gary C]

Proof there is life on Mars ...

 

[John J.]

Proof there is life on Mars ...

Reminds me, I once saw an ant franticly running to and fro across the end of a chocolate bar wrapper.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"It says 'tear along dotted line'," he replied.

 

[FatPhil]

Reminds me, I once saw an ant franticly running to and fro across the end of a chocolate bar wrapper.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"It says 'tear along dotted line'," he replied.

Then you laughed, then you cried, and satisfied the request.

 

[Smythe Bacchus]

Proof there is life on Mars ...

Proof of lenticular UAP on Mars ...

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[RTM]

 

[JMartJr]

 

[Mendel]

Source: https://imgur.com/a/eZGbiYK


CatGPT

 

[Alytha]

(translation: Casio introduces new 0.001 MP camera for UFO-hunters )

 

[JMartJr]

I had to look up "Beispielbild," I was sure it meant "this is just a bird." See, it never pays to jump to conclusions...

 

[FatPhil]

I had to look up "Beispielbild," I was sure it meant "this is just a bird." See, it never pays to jump to conclusions...

It said "ambiguous picture" to me, which would fit so well, as I saw a "bi-/twin" in "bei", a "message" in "spiel", and of course "bild" is familiar.

However, with curiosity piqued, I was led to discover that English basically has that word almost unchanged: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/byspel#English

From Middle English byspel, bispel, from Old English biġspel, bīspel ("a proverb; pattern; example"), equivalent to by- +‎ spell ("talk, saying, discourse, story"). Compare Scots byspel ("byword; rarety; outcast"), Saterland Frisian Biespil ("example; pattern"), Middle Dutch bijspel ("proverb; parable"), German Low German Bispill ("example"), German Beispiel ("example").

I'm kinda happy how close I was, despite being miles out. A reminder to self, even if you can work out the etymology that doesn't mean you've worked out the meaning.

 

[FatPhil]

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(translation: Casio introduces new 0.001 MP camera for UFO-hunters )

One of the bars at the McMinnville UFO Festival *really* ought to have a range of cocktails based on a well known herbal liqueur, the UFO-Jäger, the Bigfoot-Jäger, ...

And it might even work:

In terms of ancestry, 23.6% were German, 13.7% were English, 12.2% were Irish, and 5.0% were American.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamhill_County,_Oregon#Demographics

 

[FatPhil]

Source: https://imgur.com/a/eZGbiYK
CatGPT

Mais c'est aussi un chat.

 

[JMartJr]

Mais c'est aussi un chat.

Can't be an Australian cat, it's not upside down.

 

[Ann K]

Can't e an Australian cat, it's not upside down.

Maybe it's in free fall. It'll turn over by the time it gets to land.

 

[derwoodii]

 

[NorCal Dave]

One of the bars at the McMinnville UFO Festival *really* ought to have a range of cocktails based on a well known herbal liqueur, the UFO-Jäger, the Bigfoot-Jäger, ...

Had a drink at McMenamin's Hotel Oregon in McMinnvile last Sunday. Fortunately, as a proper Old Fashioned (but not too sweet) with McMenamin's house Rye, it was devoid of that foul Teutonic concoction famous stateside as an ice cold shooter found in sticky floored collage bars. Yuck!

Perhaps I'm bias, as I equally dislike other Anise flavored drinks, though a sip of Ouzo at a Greek party or a wash of Absinthe in something like a Corpse Reviver #2 is tolerable.

It appeared the Luminarians were concealing their activities on Mt Shasta during the drive up:

So, I had high hopes of seeing some UFO activity in McMinnville. Alas, in true UFO sighting style, all I could find was the janky roof top model at McMenamin's:

Also in typical UFO style, the janky model looks a lot better from further away. At night. Lit up.

 

[Gary C]

Enjoying the Age of Disinformation ...

 

[Mendel]

I saw this (reposted) and thought of Metabunk for some reason.

 

[JMartJr]

I'm not saying it was humans, but...

 

[RTM]

 

[JMartJr]

Once I was done laughing, it struck me that this is a good example of just how badly most people overestimate how big the moon looks in the sky. The length of your arm and the size of medicines in your country may vary, but for me, if I hold an aspirin tablet at arm's length it is pretty dang close to the being the same apparent size as the moon. When I ask people what object at arm's length they think would be "moon sized," most say something like a US 25 cent coin (or Euro 50 cent coin, or British 10 pence coin) or something larger like a golf ball.

I wonder if this is due to people seeing pictures of the moon

more often than they see the actual moon, these days.

 

[Todd Feinman]

We aren't great at understanding the apparent size of the moon; it appears larger to us when near horizon —perhaps the size in their picture demonstrates a persistent mental conception of a large moon.

 

[NoParty]

View attachment 91846

(translation: Casio introduces new 0.001 MP camera for UFO-hunters )

While I got the joke, & enjoyed the joke...
ironically the top picture made me yearn for the old days of fuzzy shapes: so much better than today's lazy-ass "orbs."