Recently in Humor Category

You may recall my last post where I told the tragic tale of how Ralph's magazine lost 130,000 disembodied breasts to the unforgiving sea.

Well, the sea finked out on us. Turns out the whole snafu was a matter of missing paperwork and misplacement. Way to go, sea.

"If we'd found them a day later, it'd have been too late to get them on the next issue," Pintado said."

Ralph Magazine, an Austrailian men's magazine, was going to include a free inflatable pair of plastic breasts in their January issue.

Neptune, God of the Sea, was apparently not pleased with the misogynistic merch . Somewhere between Beijing and Austrailia, the cargo was lost. Whether they were swept away or stolen, it's unlikley that they're going to be recovered in time for the issue's release.

All I can say is, darn.

Hell. Yeah.

It may sound sexist, but I think most women, and certainly every honest woman, would agree with me when I say that the phallus is funny and the vagina less so.  

The penis protrudes bizarrely from an otherwise harmonious silhouette. A penis flops around.  It swells unpredictably or splurges prematurely. It has a little personality of its own. Even things that resemble phalluses are funny by association: trombones, sausages, pointy hats, the Washington Monument, oversized cigars, normal cigars. And History can attest, too: In Aristophanes' The Clouds, the characters chase each other with a big, fake penis and bop each other on the heads with it. Priapus, the ancient Greek's version of a scarecrow, was a demi-god with a hilariously swollen phallus that would sodomize crop thieves. Penis humor has a richly obscene tradition stretching back thousands of years. 

In his recent Vanity Fair essay, Christopher Hitchens, our generation's jolliest provocateur, investigates reasons for what he labels "the humor gap" between men and women.  Children, he argues, are the crux of the issue: men are childish, women have children, and the latter is definitely UNfunny. For most of human history, women have been important because they can get pregnant, and pregnancy has meant pain, suffering, blood, screaming, and a close shave with death. What is not painful about pregnancy is still not funny: life-creating power, strength, beauty, and for most cultures, mystery and the supernatural. 

Okay. Maybe.

One of my co-bloggers at City of Ladies posted this today, and I thought it was so funny that I had to share. Turns out that Sarah Palin fails not only at government but also at being a down-home person...

"While giving a speech in Pennsylvania, [Palin] said, '...And I am thrilled to be here in the home state of the world champion Philadelphia Phillies.' I'll admit that this doesn't look like a gaffe upon first glance. After all, the Phillies just won the World Series. It's not like she mistakenly said that the Tampa Bay Rays won. However, she did make a mistake that caused the audience to boo her following her comment, specifically that she said it in Erie, Pennsylvania, a city located in western Pennsylvania. Unbeknownst to Palin, the region with the most Phillies fans is eastern Pennsylvania. In the western part of the state, more people are fans of the Pittsburgh Pirates. And in some areas, the team of choice is the Cleveland Indians. Not only that, but Erie itself is home to the Erie Seawolves, a minor league affiliate of the Detroit Tigers. With this in mind, mentioning how proud she was of a rival team was not a great idea. I know that this won't affect the election, but that doesn't mean that Palin knew what she was talking about."

I had to write a love sonnet for English, so I decided to write about Florida's Amendment 2. I thought it might be entertaining to some people, so here it is! As a disclaimer, this is a school assignment, so the quality of writing is automatically -3 points, but I hope you're amused by it anyway

Gay in Florida

My love in on the ballot, up for vote,
though laws against us long-existing stand,
"Defending marriage" as if I promote
destroying it with simple wedding bands.

No “substantial equivalents thereof”
means benefits for all will disappear
for anyone unmarried and in love;
They’ll find their rights are not protected here.

Hospital visitation could be gone,
and health care for partners both gay and straight.
And all they'll say when asked why they said yes
is that God's word can justify their hate.

Election day, the best thing you can do
Is vote for “no” on Proposition Two.

From Dickipedia.org:

"Sarah Palin’s political views are totally cribbed from the "Focus on the Family" website. Pro-life, unless you’re talking about the life of a criminal; limited government involvement in people’s lives, unless those people have a uterus or are gay and want to get married; and guns for whoever wants them, as many as they like, unless they look Islamic, in which case they should be detained indefinitely, preferably naked and arranged in a human pyramid."

Couldn't have said it better myself.

I can't decide if this is sexist, or sheer genius...

The context being that a female run interior design company was hired to create this men's room for another female run NYC company. (This is where I found the post on one of my favorite blogs, Anne Bonny Says...)

What does everyone think?

I know everyone loves Sarah Haskins, and since it hasn't been posted yet here:

lol.