Funny Stuff on the Interwebs

I’ve seen some funny stuff around lately. And me? I’m NOT telling drunken Irish jokes this year. [I have a Lent joke that I'll probably post next week though. So, you know, you have that to look forward to.]

Travis, a mathematician, over at komplexify has Joke Time! As he says, “Each semester, I offer students a last chance for extra credit by writing their favorite joke or riddle on their crib sheet, with extra credit assigned based purely on how funny I think it is.” I’m entirely geeky enough to think that he got some very funny stuff again this time.

Completely unrelated, except that this also comes out of a classroom, is this Course Evaluation from Zero Out of Five. [Note to self, revise course evaluation before I distribute them in June....]

Roger von Oech, an inventor, author, and consultant, over at Creative Think has Color Names. While I don’t want to promote gender stereotypes, I thought it was funny. Go look at it and then I’ll tell you something else I think is funny. Go ahead. I’ll wait. Really. I’ll be right here. Because this is — oh, good. You’re back. I was describing this image to a friend of mine, but it had been a few days since I looked at it so I didn’t remember all the color names in the left column. So I just started naming colors like periwinkle and puce. Neither of which are even on the silly thing. [But I am still secure in my masculinity.] And, I just learned that puce is the color of fleas. So there’s that….