Debunking Humor...

[Alytha]

Doesn't this belong in the synchronicity thread? Just where I was heading before this detour.

You mean that I'm a Nightvale fan and Mendel posted that meme?
Not really IMHO, as those Nightvale things tend to leak all over the internet, especially in these absurd days.

Also, give the show a listen, it's really good.

 

[JMartJr]

 

[Hevach]

Harold has been there a while.

 

[Mendel]

https://xkcd.com/386/ Duty Calls

Harold has been there a while.
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What do you want me to do? LEAVE? Then they'll keep being wrong!

 

[Mendel]

But which half-time show were they watching?

 

[GM4AJK]

 

[Gary C]

I did laugh when I saw it on the shelf ...

 

[GM4AJK]

Officer A. Sir, we have 95 red balloons left. Shall we let them go together this time?
Officer B. Hmm, no, let's see how long we can drag out the opening of WW3

 

[Mendel]

Is it still 'driving under the influence' if you're mind-controlled?

 

[John J.]

Officer A. Sir, we have 95 red balloons left. Shall we let them go together this time?
Officer B. Hmm, no, let's see how long we can drag out the opening of WW3

Might that be 99 red balloons, as warned of by the German futurologist Nena? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nena

 

[NoParty]

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Is it still 'driving under the influence' if you're mind-controlled?

I'm on board with that, if that's what it takes to get society to make a better effort to protect the woods!!

 

[Gary C]

Meant to post this on Valentine's day but the Grey's don't user our calendar anyway ...

 

[RTM]

 

[JMartJr]

I got me one of those air fresheners that are controlled using psychic powers...

I know it sounds like bunk, but it makes scents when you think about it...

 

[deirdre]

I got me one of those air fresheners that are controlled using psychic powers...
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I know it sounds like bunk, but it makes scents when you think about it...

Booooo...

Spoiler

although more scents then paying for an air freshener that smells like tobacco and wood, of your own free will!

 

[GM4AJK]

This isn't a joke, but it did make me laugh out loud, seen in the Wild West of Xwitter

 

[Mendel]

it takes a forensic attention to detail to detect AI-generated images

 

[Mendel]

Went to a talk about faith healing last night. Boring as hell. Even the bloke in the wheelchair got up and walked out.

 

[FatPhil]

Courtesy of Terrible Maps, who have created and collated some hilarious stuff, via https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-terrible-maps/

 

[RTM]

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been arrested.

If convicted he could go from a situation where his entire life is paid for by the taxpayer to a situation where his entire life is paid for by the taxpayer.

 

[JMartJr]

Courtesy of Terrible Maps, who have created and collated some hilarious stuff

I really thought that was going to be one of those "what would the pants look like" things...

 

[Mendel]

I really thought that was going to be one of those "what would the pants look like" things...

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The zipper is in the wrong place on all but one of these.

 

[Todd Feinman]

I got me one of those air fresheners that are controlled using psychic powers...
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I know it sounds like bunk, but it makes scents when you think about it...

Yeah.. I think you're supposed to smoke it? Good kite graphic, too.

 

[econ41]

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been arrested.

If convicted he could go from a situation where his entire life is paid for by the taxpayer to a situation where his entire life is paid for by the taxpayer.

If we correct the false comparison the true situation is worse. His entire life would start to be paid for by the taxpayer

 

[JMartJr]

The zipper is in the wrong place on all but one of these.

Consider the possibility of multiple zippers. Or, more speculative, the need for zippers in multiple places...

 

[MonkeeSage]

I really thought that was going to be one of those "what would the pants look like" things...

There's a meme for that too

www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/6mjjem/asking_the_important_questions_that_big_denim/

 

[Mendel]

I knew this scene from The Meaning of Life:

Source: https://youtu.be/buqtdpuZxvk


But I just now found this very entertaining debunk:

Source: https://youtu.be/_IFGH11uxaI

 

[Mendel]

Alienish

Yesterday upon the air,
I saw a craft that wasn't there.
It wasn't there again today.
I wish that craft would go away.

Spoiler: background

Article:

"Antigonish" is a poem by the American educator and poet William Hughes Mearns, written in 1899. [...] Inspired by reports of a ghost of a man roaming the stairs of a haunted house in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada [...]

Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there!
He wasn't there again today,
I wish, I wish he'd go away!

When I came home last night at three,
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall,
I couldn't see him there at all!
Go away, go away, don't you come back any more!
Go away, go away, and please don't slam the door... (slam!)

Last night I saw upon the stair,
A little man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
Oh, how I wish he'd go away....

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigonish_(poem)

 

[Ann K]

Yesterday upon the air,
I saw a craft that wasn't there.
It wasn't there again today.
I wish that craft would go away.

That's immediately recognizable. The spoiler wasn't necessary.

 

[Mendel]

That's immediately recognizable. The spoiler wasn't necessary.

Yes. I put the information in the spoiler so that people who recognize it immediately don't have to read it, while those of us who don't can.

 

[Gary C]

We just need to get pictures of the UFO from more than one angle ...

 

[Alytha]

From Jason Colavito's blog:

Yesterday, with a particularly Trumpian flourish, Elizondo also became the recipient of the inaugural Hollywood Disclosure Alliance award for Excellence in the Advancement of Disclosure. The alliance, which was founded in 2023 and became a nonprofit in 2024, brings together 250 members, drawn from Hollywood UFO believers and the stars of ufology, to create UFO-themed media content. Members include Dave Foley, Shirley MacLaine, Whitley Strieber, and Linda Moulton Howe.

The Hollywood Disclosure Alliance's inaugural awards were a bizarre grab-bag of honors for all the usual suspects, giving accolades to current practitioners of ufology, including The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch (for television), The Age of Disclosure (for documentaries), Avi Loeb (for science), and Ross Coulthart's YouTube show (for "journalism" [!]), while also honoring the 2016 movie Arrival for achievement in cinema and the 2019 Lue Elizondo series Unidentified for achievement in docuseries. Way to keep it current!

Just when you though it couldn't possibly get any more ridiculous...

 

[FatPhil]

Just when you though it couldn't possibly get any more ridiculous...

If only there was an award for mutual back patting.

 

[Mendel]

If only there was an award for mutual back patting.

Well, it could be argued that the Oscars etc. do that as well.

 

[Ann K]

Well, it could be argued that the Oscars etc. do that as well.

However, the Oscar winners actually have a product that we can see.

 

[Mendel]

However, the Oscar winners actually have a product that we can see.

So do these. Both types of products are fiction.

While there is no disclosure of aliens and UFOs, there are films, books, TV shows and such.
Close Encounters of the The Third Kind and Star Wars received several Oscars and other accolades in 1977.

So they want to award prizes for disclosure-themed fiction, why not?

It gets them in the news, and it wasn't on my bingo card.

 

[Gary C]

So do these. Both types of products are fiction.

While there is no disclosure of aliens and UFOs, there are films, books, TV shows and such.
Close Encounters of the The Third Kind and Star Wars received several Oscars and other accolades in 1977.

So they want to award prizes for disclosure-themed fiction, why not?

Simple lack of originality? Fresh coats of paint on the same old car don't make it a new car.
OTOH these awards do reflect the fact that this is an infotainment business, no actual science or journalism is taking place.

 

[JMartJr]

So do these. Both products are fiction.

With the side note that that the Oscars have categories for documentaries which are (at least purportedly) non-fiction. Around here we are very aware of this, as my cousin has been nominated for a couple. In fact, people in our family tend to dislike penguins, after "March of the Penguins" won the Oscar the first year he was nominated...

 

[Ann K]

In fact, people in our family tend to dislike penguins, after "March of the Penguins" won the Oscar the first year he was nominated...

Whoops, there's synchronicity again. I was just thinking about penguins (seriously) in the moments before I read your post. And no, I don't go around thinking about penguins all the time...

 

[Mendel]

With the side note that that the Oscars have categories for documentaries which are (at least purportedly) non-fiction. Around here we are very aware of this, as my cousin has been nominated for a couple. In fact, people in our family tend to dislike penguins, after "March of the Penguins" won the Oscar the first year he was nominated...

Did he receive an Oscar in a different category?