If you’ve never read the cartoons on biffsniff.com then you’re really missing out. They’re mostly drawn by Frank Prendergast and occasionally by guest cartoonists and they’re all extremely funny and clever. Frank’s a school friend I hadn’t seen in years but bumped into at the IT@Cork pre-conference dinner the other week.
Best of all, they’ve just moved to WordPress!
Tag Archives: Humour
Really I need a mugger who can file my Vat returns
Comedian Dara O Briain is interviewed by Rose Costello in the Sunday Times “Fame and Fortune” column this week. If you’ve never seen him on tv or perform live then check out the clips at the end of this post!
As a self employed person I took to heart his recommendation that, “Oh yeah, and if you’re self-employed, get an offset mortgage.” You pay tax once a year, all that dosh is building up in your current account, doing what? You might as well get it working and paying off the mortgage. As soon as my fixed rate loan period is up …
How much money do you normally have in your wallet and do you carry anything unusual or sentimental in it?
I never have cash in my wallet at any time — so take that, you brigands and banditos, you’ll get nothing from me. Instead I carry around months and months of receipts. Really I need a mugger who can file my Vat returns.
York Model Railway Station
Update! Dara was on Podge & Rodge’s show the other night! Here’s the obligatory Youtube video: (via)
The Killinaskully Halloween Episode
If you missed the Halloween episode of Killinaskully find someone who has recorded it! We just watched it and I haven’t laughed as much in a long time!
It’s all because Dieter offered the local populace some new cheese he had. Nightmares were the hilarious result. Robin Hood was ridiculously funny, and it’s obvious the zombie dance got it’s inspiration from a certain Thrilling song!
Marvelous stuff by Pat Shortt and company. Check out the site above for video clips to give you a taste of what Killinaskully is like as well as the usual promotional gig and video stuff.
Is your Macbook spying on you?
I’m typing away here, working on some bugs, fixing them, not creating them! I sit back thinking about one bug in particular and I look up and see that black square above the screen and I wonder, “Is anyone looking at me?”
If you are spying, here’s me! Hello World!
Post your spy shots and tag them spybook!
We’re Hoff and running
John Arlidge of The Sunday Times interviews David Hasselhoff. The Hoff is traveling around Europe to publicize his new single, “Jump In My Car”. Have you heard it yet? It was played off the radio by pleading texts from listeners and laughter from DJs. The interview makes for a great read, he’s so full of himself it’s funny!
“What is Jump In My Car, my latest single out this month, really about?” he asks unprompted. Without pausing he answers his own question. “Essentially, it’s about driving along trying to get girls to jump in my car.”
Is that something he knows a lot about, I ask. He nods.
Just what does the star of Knight Rider and Baywatch get up to in his car these days? You’ll have to read this entertaining interview to find out!
Photo by Dwane Senior
Where's the evil in top posting?
Where is the evil in top posting when replying to a message on a mailing list? It’s something I’ve never understood, even after reading the many “why top posting is evil” posts and FAQs around the interweb.
Inspired by yet another email complaining about a top post to the GIMP mailing list I briefly searched Google, the source of all information in the world, and found this enlightening page on the evils of top-post complaints.
Regardless, top-posting flame wars are always fun to watch from the sidelines. People on both sides of the arguement will fight for their own side in what is a subjective matter and way of writing. Flame away!
Every OS Sucks
Something to brighten up your day, be offended! 🙂
Banks, they get you young and grab hold of you by the goolies!
Why list 50 adwords when all a greedy website owner wants is the most expensive one? It’s school loan consolidation
, with an average cost per click of $69.16 apparently. I expect to see a lot more blogs springing up around about … now on this very topic.
Makes you wonder how much the banks make directly from the interest on a school loan and in the long term how important it is for them to get a young person as a customer. People don’t move bank accounts much so you’ve got a customer for life! I haven’t moved bank, and in fact use the same bank for my business account despite the fact that Ulster Bank offer free banking! It’s also much easier to move accounts these days but that would require effort wouldn’t it?
Here in Ireland students get a “welcome pack” with brochures and pens and a rotten apple or some such thing. It’s been a while. Maybe the banks throw in a free iPod these days? Of course, it doesn’t cost upwards of $50,000 to do a college course here thankfully. Well, except for the drink and waffles and beans that is.
See here for an explanation of goolies if you’re confused. (Thanks Damien for reminding about this page.)
Don't mention the war!
Would you like to have a job where you’re paid to watch Fawly Towers? Mairead on Ray D’Arcy’s show has never seen a full episode of Fawlty Towers so she’s watching the episode with the Germans. Classic comedy!
Charlie Harper Sucks
The Charlie Harper Sucks website really does exist! I watched the episode of Two and a Half Men last night where Rose setup a Charlie Harper hate website so I had to see if it was really there. Unfortunately it redirects to a Warner Brothers site but at least they created a site with that devil picture of Charlie!
In real life, Charlie Sheen’s love life isn’t going too well. He and his wife Denise Richards are divorcing. Denise is 6 months pregnant with their second child.
Sheen thought that her hormones (due to the pregnancy) are raging, but the former gorgeous Bond girl felt very neglected. Maybe she felt that Charlie was slipping back to his old self…which she said she ”can’t even comprehend” (when asked about whether his past bothered her).