Word Humor

Funniest Words in English

2010-04-16T22:58:00.000-07:00

[Well, they sound funny anyway.. Updated: April 16th, 2010]Hodge-podge - don't know what a hodge or a podge is, independently, so together I'm thinking it's a "bunch of stuff that we don't know how to name" [note: see the addition of 'Hotchpotch' at the bottom of this article]Ramshackle - I know what a ram is, and a shack, and a shackle; could this be a ram tied up to a shack, and likely not too

Just Another F***ing Post!

2009-12-30T17:24:00.000-08:00

[If this offends you, get the f*** outta here!]Well, the origins of f*** are supposedly just this, perhaps a myth, but a reasonable one: After years of a puritan king in England, when he was gone and Edward took over, a new era of relaxed inhibitions and libertine social behavior took over. [See "The Libertine" with Johnny Depp]. The king decreed that not only could women act on stage now, but

Crazy for Synonyms for Insane

2009-09-29T20:54:00.000-07:00

For some reason, there are far more words for the insane than we probably need. They say Eskimos have 26 words for snow; we have more than that for the psychotic. They have different kinds of snow, we have different kinds of psychos, some dangerous, some fun, some eccentric. Euphemisms, like “not playing with a full deck”, follow the synonyms.A – Aberrant, abnormalB – Bent, berserk, bonkers,

Word Origins You Never Knew

2009-09-28T22:53:00.000-07:00

It's pandemonium in bedlam!Adam’s apple -– a bit of the “forbidden apple” that stuck in Adam’s throat; there’s no mythological explanation why Eve doesn’t also share this “piece of the fruit”.Bedlam – in 1402, St. Mary of Bethlehem in London became a lockup for the insane; cockneys corrupted Bethlehem into “bedlam”, which came to mean any madhouse or “scene of utter confusion”. Tom and/or Bess O’

Creative Puns

2009-07-05T20:41:00.000-07:00

[Someone sent me this email so I thought anyone into Word Humor would enjoy it! - Thanks to Melissa]1. The roundest knight at King Arthur’s Round Table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.4. A rubber band pistol was

Jumping the Shark

2009-05-28T04:21:00.000-07:00

Many people have heard this expression and don't know the meaning, so here's the Wikipedia blurb on a funny incident from the tv show Happy Days:Jumping the shark is a metaphor for the tipping point at which a TV series passes its peak or introduces plot twists which are inconsistent with what has preceded them. Once a show has jumped the shark, the viewer senses a noticeable decline in quality

Are You a True Southerner?

2009-03-20T16:39:00.000-07:00

Things Only a True Southerner Knows1. Only a true southerner knows the difference between a hissie fit and a conniption, and that you don’t “have” them, you pitch them.2. Only a true southerner knows how many fish, collard greens, turnips, beans, etc, make up a “mess”.3. Only a true southerner can point you in the direction of “yonder”.4. Only a true southerner knows how long “directly” is – as

The Mensa Invitational

2009-03-06T18:44:00.000-08:00

Here is the Washington Post's Mensa Invitational which once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. The winners:1. Cashtration. The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.2. Ignoranus. A person who's both stupid and an asshole.3.

How GHOTI Equals FISH

2009-02-11T16:06:00.000-08:00

Remember the post about Webster trying to get phonetic in spelling, such as 'booty' for beauty?He did get lots of 'ph' made into 'f' - phantasy became fantasy, etc..He tried all this in his first dictionary and most like booty got rejected!He wanted stuff spelled like it sounded to avoid all the confusionHere's a great example of English messing with students!take these sounds:GH as in ROUGH is "

Francis Bacon was Shakespeare

2009-01-25T00:25:00.000-08:00

Francis Bacon was the true author of Shakespeare's works, so "Bacon was the Bard"Criminal psychiatrist Richard M. Bucke, in his 1901 book Cosmic Consciousness, uses his psychological expertise and powers of deduction to make a very strong case for Francis Bacon (1561-1626, jurist and courtier, Parliamentary speaker) as the author of all of William Shakespeare’s works. When you couple his

Webster and New World Words

2009-01-22T23:23:00.000-08:00

Noah Webster himself used these alternate spellings in his first dictionary, many in an attempt to get people to use the shorter forms for convenience; he was rejected in each case.Booty for beauty.........Soop for soupBred for bread.............Wimmen for women (still used in the south!)Groop for group...........Tuf for tough (I’m for this one!)Hed for head................Bilt for builtTung for

Top 50 Websites of 2008

2008-08-25T18:28:00.001-07:00

Time Magazine's list and poll for the fifty best websites of 2008:50 Best Websites of 2008There are some good site there, check out this one, Urban Dictionary, with the words all defined by users:The Urban DictionaryHere are the words I authored at Urban Dictionary:Author Jose Sinclair at Urban DictionaryThere's some very interesting stuff out there, check it out.... Jman

Bad Translations

2008-02-06T20:00:00.000-08:00

A computer was once asked to translate “out of sight, out of mind” into other languages and back into English, and came up with “blind insanity”.Due to English confusion, an Italian film with English subtitles had a policeman asking a motorist for a sweater – a “pullover”, get it?In a Spanish film, a man asking “if he could bring a date to a funeral” was translated into “if he could bring a fig

That's Insulting in Other Lands

2008-01-06T23:42:00.000-08:00

Not every culture uses the same insults, here are some from abroad.China: To be called a turtle is the worst possible insultNorway: devil is highly taboo, one letter worse than four lettersSouth Africa: The Xoxa tribe hates “your mother’s ears”France: a cow or camel is pretty bad, but preceded by espèce de (“kind of”) is even worseGermany: don’t be a schweinehund, or a “pig dog”Spain: tu madre,

Famously Funny Quotes

2008-01-05T18:31:00.000-08:00

Anonymous is the most prolific writer in EnglishThe poor became ‘needy’; the needy were elevated to ‘deprived’; and the deprived were promoted to ‘underprivilaged’. They still have no money, but they acquired a vocabulary. – William LambdinPatriotism is your conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it. – George Bernard ShawA refrigerator is a place where you

Movies We Want to See

2008-01-04T22:16:00.000-08:00

Homage to Art FernFay Wray, Danny Kaye, Doris Day, Milo O’Shea, and Joel Gray in CabaretBilly Zane, Carol Kane, Marjorie Main, Nathan Lane, and John Wayne in The Andromeda StrainEthan Hawke, Claudia Cardinale, Robin Penn Wright, and Jay Mohr in The BirdsRed Foxx, Michael J. Fox, Jamie Foxx, and Robert Foxworthy in Never Cry WolfJoan Rivers, Veronica Lake, John Waters, Billy Ocean, and Ice Cube in

How Illiterate Are You?

2008-01-02T21:52:00.000-08:00

I ain't illiterate, my parents were married by the justice of the peace - Jean Hagen, Singin' in the RainThese are likely what kids or the semi-literate think the meaning of these words are when they first hear them. Just my guess, I haven’t been a kid or illiterate since last millenium, and purposely never had any, illiterate children that is.

Word Misnomers for Funny Bones

2008-01-01T23:20:00.000-08:00

These are all either misnamed or our perception has been faulty regarding what these really represent.A peanut is not a nut, it’s a legume.A panda is not a bear; it’s a relative of raccoons. Neither is a koala, which is a marsupial, like kangaroos.There are no bald eagles, they simply have white feathers as adults, brown until then.A firefly is not a fly, it’s a beetle.A prairie dog is not a dog,

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