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5 Classic Computer Pranks
Last Friday's "Top 5" post -- about the best office pranks -- got folks talking about shenanigans at work. One poster offered a gem about using the shimmer effect in Word, which got me thinking about a whole new class of goofs: mucking about with a co-worker's computer. ...
Tags: Office Suites, Microsoft Office, Peripherals, Hardware, Mice, Word Processors, Microsoft Word, Productivity, Keyboards, Hilarity, Computer, Laser, Microsoft Corp., Victim, Software, CC Holland
Blog posts 2008-05-30
Gail Shister | 'Friday Night' writer scorns the competition
It serves us right that ABC's Dancing With the Stars clobbers NBC's Friday Night Lights, says Chestnut Hill's Buzz Bissinger, on whose book the drama is based. "America is getting what it deserves - crappy, stupid, artificial reality TV," says Bissinger, 51, a former Inquirer reporter and writer for NYPD...
Tags: Hilarity, NBC Universal Inc., TVs
Research articles 2006-10-24
Summer Helliday: The War Diaries of Alistair Fury, vol. 5
SUMMER HELLIDAY: THE WAR DIARIES OF ALISTAIR FURY, VOL. 5. Jamie Rix. 2005. Read by Robert Llewellyn. 3 tapes. 3.25 hrs. BBC Audiobooks America. 1-4056-5082-6. $23.95. Vinyl; plot notes. J Imagine Bill Amend's comic strip Foxtrot in Britain and you've described the Fury family. Alistair is the long-suffering youngest...
Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., diary, Games, Hilarity
Research articles 2006-03-01
Santa Clara University: Researcher Says Ill Will, Anxiety Caused by a Gift-Drunk Culture Busts Relationships and Ruins Holidays
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- It sounds like a classic sitcom setup: Boy meets girl. Boy tries to impress girl with expensive holiday gift. Girl loves boy, but hates gift. Hilarity ensues.
Tags: Hilarity, Santa Clara University
Research articles 2004-12-10

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How to Survive (and Win) with Sarbanes-Oxley
How to Survive and Win with Sarbanes-OxleyChurchesSarbox only applies to publicly-held, for-profit companies. Churches are ultimately audited by somebody even [i]more[/i] exalted than a CPA.RE: How to Survive and Win with Sarbanes-Oxleyit was greatAyodejiRE: How to Survive and Win with Sarbanes-OxleyThis is a really good article--How do you think the...
Tags: audit, church, Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Discussion threads 2008-02-28
5 Classic Computer Pranks
5 Classic Computer PranksSloooooow MouseMy fave is to tweak the mouse to the slowest possible settings for speed. Watching somone drag their mouse from one corner of their desk to the other to only get the mouse to move 1 inch on the screen provides a good laugh.Some of...
Tags: mouse, keyboard, computer, LiveCD
Discussion threads 2008-05-30
Hilarious moment
Speeches at the 14th annual Evening of Excellence, a benefit for the Research Fund of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine Alumni Association, were pretty serious but there were a couple of moments of hilarity. Honorees at the standing room only dinner in the Marriott Hotel was an indication...
Tags: Dr., PBS, physician
Research articles 1998-02-04
Business World
Rocky Mountain hilarity ASPEN, Colo. NYT -- Who knows what mischief will erupt in Aspen in March? That's when the surviving members of Monty Python will reunite for the first time since 1989 at the fourth annual U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. The event, from March 4-8, will feature...
Tags: Associated Press, Chrysler LLC, Griffin, INTERNET, Mattel Inc., Mitsubishi Corp., Netscape Communications Corp., phone, software, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Time Inc.
Research articles 1998-01-23
'Van Dyke' among DVD releases
Television series, specials and a documentary that premiered on the big, big screen are among new DVD releases. -- "The Dick Van Dyke Show: Season Four" (Image, 1964-65, not rated, b/w, $69.99, five discs). After three years of enormous success, this excellent sitcom hit the ground running for...
Tags: documentary, DVD, PBS
Research articles 2004-05-03
[ Sports Front ]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. --- It was all there. Outstanding personal achievement, high drama and hilarity. All in one play. Tony Gonzalez, the Kansas City Chiefs' $31.5 million hybrid tight end, did just what they're paying him to do. He ran to the corner of the end zone, outleapt...
Tags: Games, NFL
Research articles 2002-09-16
Momma's back, trying again for the big laughs
You would have thought one movie would be enough to squeeze all the comedic possibilities out of the ruse of Martin Lawrence masquerading as a fat, elderly woman. But Big Momma's House 2 provides so many fresh occasions for hilarity: Big Momma at a spa frequented by (what else?)...
Tags: beach, cheerleader, FBI, Government, movie
Research articles 2006-01-27
A nonfiction fictitious remembrance of Wendy Wasserstein.
On March 24, 2004 I participated with Wendy Wasserstein at a City University of New York Graduate Center event called "Live, Laugh, and Love" where Wasserstein read from Shiksa Goddess and I read from my first novel Oy Pioneer! In order to honor Wasserstein's hilarity and...
Tags: City University, president, women
Research articles 2006-01-01
KERRY ON KACKLING AT KRAP
SHE'S extremely low-rent, fat, vulgar and has very poor taste. Wouldn't it be a great giggle to put her in a reality TV series so the middle classes can all laugh at her! Not really. Because, whisper it quietly, boringly self-obsessed former Atomic Kitten Kerry Katona isn't...
Tags: bankruptcy, Ferrari, Litigation
Research articles 2008-02-24
The best unintentional comedy on TV
It is time the BBC sorted out subtitling of its Freeview shows ( even if this means the demise of the funniest thing currently on TV. I have no idea how the words come up on screen so quickly but I suspect it is this speed which causes such...
Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., TVs
Research articles 2005-02-21
La Jolla Drug Failure Leaves Few Options
EP Vantage submits: In both comedy and licensing deals, timing is everything. Today, there was no hilarity attached to the announcement that a mere five weeks after signing a deal worth up to $289m with BioMarin Pharmaceutial BMRN, La Jolla Pharmaceutical's LJPC lead drug Riquent had failed in phase III...
Tags: Biotech, EP Vantage, BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc., La Jolla Pharmaceutical Co.
External links 2009-02-12
Get a Dose of Dilbert on Your Desktop Every Day
I love Scott Adam's cynical, vaguely trippy perspective on the cubicle universe. But I've gone months at a time forgetting to read the strip, because I just don't think to visit the official Dilbert Web site. I've found a better solution. If you're running...
Tags: Strip, Gadget, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Dave Johnson
Blog posts 2009-03-05
Is Shire CEO Russell Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
That question will be answered soon as Shire CEO Angus Russell submits to a quiz in which his giant brain one presumes is pitted against the children of his employees on "Take Your Child to Work Day." The Philadelphia Business Journal reports: At Shire, the event...
Tags: Quiz, CEO, Professional Development, Career, Jim Edwards
Blog posts 2009-04-24
Name value that travels
KRPP toilet tissue, Super Piss de-icer and Fanny grated tuna are all popular sellers in their domestic markets, but they are guaranteed to cause hilarity - if not more than a little embarrassment - among English-speakers. As brands become increasingly international, it is ever more important that names...
Tags: Saatchi & Saatchi
Research articles 1995-04-02
City People
TONY BLAIR is getting into the habit of making off-the-cuff remarks when he reads out a speech these days. At the tail end of last week the PM was presenting Business in the Community's 1999 Awards for Excellence when he read out: "Today's young high flyers are as likely to...
Tags: Whitbread Plc.
Research articles 1999-07-19
City People
TONY BLAIR is getting into the habit of making off-the-cuff remarks when he reads out a speech these days. At the tail end of last week the PM was presenting Business in the Community's 1999 Awards for Excellence when he read out: "Today's young high flyers are as likely to...
Tags: Whitbread Plc.
Research articles 1999-07-19
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