Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 2/3/12
A Neverending Stream of Hilarity
At least for me.
I can count on one hand how many sites on the internet have left me reduced to hysterical tears and shuddering, mouth-breathing gasps simply because they were that funny. Granted, I have a very strange sense of humor, some colleagues might even call me strange period, but still: I think I know funny when I see it. And today I will show you something very funny, and even if you doubt me on account of my self-admitted strangeness, this is my blog post and I’m sitting here making the clackety noise with my keyboard, so you might just want to go along for the ride. Trust me.
Just to give you a baseline, I find most things that people flit about email not very funny. I’m the boring jerk who’d rather be taken off joke email lists because, well, they’re not funny and I, again, am a jerk that way. I’m much more apt to start email flame wars with my colleagues for their sheer entertainment value than forward around links and jokes.
Also I am a word nerd. I like writing. I like reading.
I also like the completely absurd. I have often thought about writing a few Friday blog posts about serious topics with totally false, absurd, downright wrong information, but then I realized John Hodgman has a corner on that market. I was so angry about blowing that opportunity, but that’s another story.
So, take a weird sense of humor, word nerdiness, and an affinity for the downright absurd and you’ll see why I love so very much the Pronunciation Manual YouTube channel, (thanks to Jason Kotte for the link), which simply shows you how to pronounce oft-mispronounced words. The catch: the pronunciations are flat-out wrong, ridiculous and hilarious.
Here are some of my favorites, but you can go over to the channel to watch them all. I could link to them all day, but I’ll spare you and show only the best here:
Have a good weekend, everyone.
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