Do Dumb Blonde Jokes Slow Mental Activity?? (Reuters)

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Spammers Latest Trick? Dumb Jokes

Spammers Latest Trick? Dumb Jokes 07/06/2004 05:28 AM
Well, now you've done it. All those stupid jokes you've been sending around as friend spam has made spammers realize that to get past Bayesian spam filters, they shouldn't just paste in the text from classic pieces of literature, but instead just toss in a few lame jokes, and watch the spam fly right through filters. The article doesn't make the connection, but it seems quite likely that the reason these get through more effectively than other types of text is because so many people bombard their friends with stupid jokes as friend spam.

The Irish Have a New Jackass: If You
Like Dumb, Stupid and Funny Stuff, Then
You Will Love This New Site From a Group
of Crazy Mental Irish guys Who Just Love
to Party

The Irish Have a New Jackass: If You
Like Dumb, Stupid and Funny Stuff, Then
You Will Love This New Site From a Group
of Crazy Mental Irish guys Who Just Love
to Party 03/22/2005 04:47 PM
The Americans have Jackass while the Irish have the Crazy mental team. These guys film all their stupid and funny stuff for our enjoyment, from driving a Ferrari 355 at breakneck speeds around the Hollywood hills in Los Angeles to drilling a hole in one of their arms with a hammer drill, these guys are really crazy. [PRWEB Mar 21, 2005]

The Annotated Blonde On Blonde

The Annotated Blonde On Blonde 11/19/2003 08:08 AM
The closest I ever got to the sound I hear in my mind was on individual bands in the 'Blonde on Blonde' album. It's that thin, that wild mercury sound. It's metallic and bright gold, with whatever that conjures up.

Bob Dylan 1978

Blonde On Blonde--Seven mixes, four or five covers, four or five women, some missing photographs and one leather coat... (story within)

Dean Jokes About 'Screeching' in Iowa
(Reuters)

Dean Jokes About 'Screeching' in Iowa
(Reuters) 01/22/2004 11:39 AM
Reuters - A hoarse Howard Dean joked on Thursday about his nationally televised outburst, saying his voice had not recovered from his "screeching" after he lost in Iowa, the first major prize for Democrats seeking the White House.

Rafsanjani has best jokes in Iran
election text war (Reuters)

Rafsanjani has best jokes in Iran
election text war (Reuters) 06/22/2005 02:18 AM
Reuters - Beep Beep. "Vote for Ahmadinejad who supports the poor." Beep Beep. "Joining together and voting for Rafsanjani is better than handing the country over to a fool."

Politicians mad about mental health slur
(Reuters)

Politicians mad about mental health slur
(Reuters) 05/18/2004 09:02 AM
Reuters - Opposition politicians have accused the government of insensitivity after it named a new online arts project for people with mental health issues "MadforArts".

Politicians Bristle About Mental Health
Slur (Reuters)

Politicians Bristle About Mental Health
Slur (Reuters) 05/18/2004 10:21 AM
Reuters - Opposition politicians accused the British government on Tuesday of insensitivity after it named a new online arts project for people with mental health issues "MadforArts."

"Dumb blondes" live up to stereotype
(Reuters)

"Dumb blondes" live up to stereotype
(Reuters) 07/14/2004 10:20 AM
Reuters - Blondes perform intelligence tests more slowly after reading jokes playing on their supposed stupidity, say psychologists in a newly published German study.

Thieves in "dumb-crook" beer heist
(Reuters)

Thieves in "dumb-crook" beer heist
(Reuters) 08/27/2004 01:59 PM
Reuters - Somewhere in Canada there are thieves with nearly 50,000 cans of beer they will have a hard time selling, although police say the truck driver who disappeared with the loot has been arrested.

The blonde in the bleachers

The blonde in the bleachers 03/20/2003 08:30 AM
White supremacists reach out to other assholes: Simon Doonan, in this week's New York Observer, reports on the soft underside of Manhattan.

Shark Tank: Let it slow, let it slow,
let it slow

Shark Tank: Let it slow, let it slow,
let it slow 12/25/2003 12:48 AM
It's the height of the holiday shopping season, and this pilot fish is hitting a big computer and electronics store to stuff his stockings. Then comes time for him to check out.

Gum Blondes - portraits of blonde women
made out of bubble gum

Gum Blondes - portraits of blonde women
made out of bubble gum 02/16/2004 02:35 PM
Figures of famously fine flaxen-haired females (Britney, Xtina, Pamela, and others) -- made entirely from chewing gum. The bio page on this Flash-based site states that the color in the images is all from the gum itself, no extra pigment added. Link (Thanks, Steve; also spotted at Fleshbot)

U.S. Ringtones Market Slow to Connect
(Reuters)

U.S. Ringtones Market Slow to Connect
(Reuters) 09/10/2004 11:46 PM
Reuters - With a possible billion-dollar windfall at stake, U.S. music companies are eagerly awaiting the full-blown development of the stateside ringtone market.

Hey, Google: Paid Search Growth May Slow
(Reuters)

Hey, Google: Paid Search Growth May Slow
(Reuters) 08/08/2004 11:54 AM
Reuters - A new Internet advertising forecast shows slower growth for paid search listings in the next five years, a projection that raises questions about Web search leader Google Inc.'s prospects as it goes public.

PC Screen Price-Fall to Slow in Fourth
Quarter (Reuters)

PC Screen Price-Fall to Slow in Fourth
Quarter (Reuters) 09/07/2004 06:29 AM
Reuters - Prices of computer screens are expected to fall by less than 5 percent in the fourth quarter as the market stabilizes on hopes of a pick-up in demand during the Christmas season, a U.S.-based research firm said on Tuesday.

Missing June Deals Slow to Return for
Software Cos. (Reuters)

Missing June Deals Slow to Return for
Software Cos. (Reuters) 08/13/2004 12:03 AM
Reuters - The mystery of what went wrong for the software industry in late June when sales stalled at more than 20 brand-name companies is not even close to being solved although the third quarter is nearly halfway over.

Slow-Moving Frances Begins to Pound
Florida (Reuters)

Slow-Moving Frances Begins to Pound
Florida (Reuters) 09/04/2004 08:51 PM
Reuters - Hurricane Frances lashed eastern Florida with strong winds and heavy rain on Saturday, cutting power to nearly half a million homes and businesses and ripping yachts from their moorings after the enormous storm pounded the Bahamas.

Govt rules may slow launch of XM, Sirius
in Canada (Reuters)

Govt rules may slow launch of XM, Sirius
in Canada (Reuters) 06/17/2005 04:35 PM
Reuters - Complex government rules may slow the launch of satellite radio sales in Canada by the two biggest U.S.-based services, according to Wall Street analysts.

SMS jokes keep Zim going during vote

SMS jokes keep Zim going during vote 04/05/2005 06:16 AM
iafrica.com Apr 5 2005 10:26AM GMT

UK ban on religious jokes

UK ban on religious jokes 06/22/2005 02:20 AM
Independant: "As MPs vote on whether to go ahead with a Bill that could outlaw religious jokes, we celebrate comedy's...

A Parrot that tells jokes

A Parrot that tells jokes 01/27/2004 12:12 AM
Parrot's oratory stuns scientists: "The bird, a captive African grey called N'kisi, has a vocabulary of 950 words, and shows...

Join the cult of bad jokes.

Join the cult of bad jokes. 10/29/2003 01:15 AM

I tried and tried, but I just couldn't resist linking to this parody:

"Confirming their intent to battle Google's new Blogger service, MT then announced on its TypePad site that the it would be rendering all of its users' posts in image format- meaning that any blog hosted by the TypePad service would be immune to Google's awesome searching reach, because the blog entries would actually be images, rather than text ... Taking the incredible step to block your users' access to and from Google, the de-facto clearinghouse and meetinghouse of the Web, is a bold and almost paranoid move for MovableType to make in a war that hasn't even begun (neither the new Google-powered Blogger, nor MT's new TypePad sevice, have yet to launch). It's as if MT has forgotten how precarious their strong hold is over such a fickle group of fans."

For reference, the author was referring to this dollarshort.org post, which, I assume could have only benefitted from a "THIS IS A JOKE" disclaimer.

The confusion over my feeble attempts at humor has spurred us to create the <$MTJoke$> tag, which from this moment on, is a required Movable Type tag to be used when indicating sarcasm, gentle ribbing, playful jests and half-truths.

THIS IS A JOKE!

I guess my 26 paragraph screed on Google's gourmet chef wouldn't go over well either.

Realistic punchlines for old jokes

Realistic punchlines for old jokes 04/19/2005 06:16 AM
Cory Doctorow: Here's a Something Awful competition to come up with realistic punchlines to old, generally offensive jokes:

What do you get when you cross a chicken with a centipede?
A media circus about the debate over the morals and ethics of genetic engineering.

Why did the blonde get fired from the M&M factory?
Repeated absences and stealing.

Link (via Waxy)

Email jokes backfire for UK workers

Email jokes backfire for UK workers 08/21/2004 04:39 PM
Personal Computer World Aug 21 2004 8:48PM GMT

"rejoinder to President Bush's jokes"

"rejoinder to President Bush's jokes" 04/13/2004 03:30 PM

rejoinder to President Bush's jokes

rejoinder to President Bush's jokes 04/11/2004 12:20 AM
Be sure to watch this movie clip .. 3.6MB QuickTime Link .. Jason Woliner .. little video

musicforamerica.org/misc/media_files/bushjoke.mov
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Parton Jokes About 'Wardrobe
Malfunctions' (AP)

Parton Jokes About 'Wardrobe
Malfunctions' (AP) 04/21/2004 09:03 PM
AP - If anyone was hoping for a wardrobe malfunction Wednesday during the Country Music Television Flame Worthy Video Music Awards, Dolly Parton aimed to disappoint.

Google April Fools Jokes

Google April Fools Jokes 04/01/2005 10:39 PM
Search Engine Journal Apr 2 2005 2:59AM GMT

Newspaper Sorry for Naughty Santa Jokes
(AP)

Newspaper Sorry for Naughty Santa Jokes
(AP) 12/19/2004 03:22 PM
AP - A weekly newspaper in eastern Kentucky has apologized for mistakenly printing sexually explicit Christmas jokes that left some blushing readers as red as Santa's suit.

The Limerick packs jokes anatomical ...

The Limerick packs jokes anatomical ... 06/18/2004 03:56 PM
Wordcraft, an on-line community of linguaphiles, best known for its extensive collection of eponyms, has taken on a new and fairly ambitious project -- they're trying to rewrite the entire Oxford English Dictionary -- in limerick form. So far they're only on the a's, but they do seem optimistic.
Shamelessly stolen from languagehat's blog

It's certainly mental

It's certainly mental 05/09/2004 11:35 AM

A terrifc time sink that is just a notch above completely pointless to make you think that the time might not be completely wasted is the mental_floss quiz and factoid library. It's surprising the amount of useless information you can recall on demand but have trouble remembering what you had for lunch yesterday. mental_floss magazine would appear to be the USA Today of trivia magazines and part of the growing fad of publishing bound collections of trivia like Schott 's Original Miscellany. The Freudian Slippers they sell on their site are pretty cute and unusual though. :)

Tough jab at GW's jokes as a satire
video

Tough jab at GW's jokes as a satire
video 04/11/2004 12:28 AM

Dan Gillmor

Via Wonkette, here's a slightly unfair but powerful rejoinder to President Bush's jokes about weapons of mass destruction. Media is in the hands of everyone, and people are going to use it to hold powerful people -- including media people, such as the Washington correspondents who found Bush's performance so hilarious -- to account.

People seem to really be embracing web video as a medium and it definitely delivers the message at a different level than text. Very interesting to see how this form develops.

Dim-witted light bulb jokes won't have a
chance

Dim-witted light bulb jokes won't have a
chance 03/16/2003 04:50 AM
If you need inspiration, go to www.google.com and search under the words ''light bulb jokes.'' There are thousands of light bulb joke Web sites. ...

"list of other April Fool's jokes for
2005"

"list of other April Fool's jokes for
2005" 04/02/2005 11:08 AM

Art and mental illness

Art and mental illness 04/14/2004 03:55 PM
Art & Psychosis Some have suggested that there is a link between creativity and mental illness (MI), and others equivocate a little. One way or another, whether called Outsider, Transgressive or... (?) art is art and it seems the art from this community has greater potential (IMO) from an emotional standpoint then the majority that comes out of art school. One last link

Mental note to self........

Mental note to self........ 07/12/2004 01:03 AM
Check to see if cable modem is unplugged first...

Zen and Mental Wedgies

Zen and Mental Wedgies 09/12/2004 11:43 PM

A nice quote s on Zen via Marc,

"before studying Zen - man is man and mountains are mountains - yet things are confused."

"while studying Zen - man is no longer man and mountains are no longer mountains."

"after studying Zen - man is man and mountains are moutains - yet things are no longer confused."

My take on Zen is even more down to earth.  To me, Zen is just a tool to remove mental wedgies.  Just as brushing your teeth regularly keeps your teeth healthy and smelling fresh, practicing zazen regularly removes mental debris stuck in your mind before they could infest and grow into something more menacing.

Zen doesn't deliver truth or meaning of life, just a more comfortable perspective, a product created out of necessity by those who suffered enough to shave their heads over thousands of years ago.  It won't help you if you are crazy though just as you can't brush your teeth if you can't hold a toothbrush.  That's what shrinks are for.  It will help you if your mind is tangled into a ball of mess by your own doing.

Thank goodness Zen masters don't charge like doctors do.

Munger Goes Mental

Munger Goes Mental 06/04/2004 01:55 PM
Berkshire Hathaway's Charlie Munger talks economics, chutzpah, and Paul Krugman.

Mental Drippings

Mental Drippings 04/16/2004 11:39 PM
worst/most hilarious album covers of all time .. Bitchin' Album Covers .. Mental Drippings

porktornado.diaryland.com/albumcover.html
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