It's funny joke Thursday! 2005 - 2020

[redduck]

I squinted my eyes and yes, indeed, this blob fish does look like Robert de Niro without feathers (whom apparently looks like me both with and without feathers).

Now that we are discussing it, I would like to recommend Woody Allen's book: "Without Feathers".

 

[NW-Bound]

Is the blobfish real? Is it a joke?

Nope. According to Wikipedia, it is "a deep sea fish of the family Psychrolutidae...[that] lives at depths between 600 and 1,200 m (2,000 and 3,900 ft). The flesh of the blobfish is primarily a gelatinous mass", and lacking muscle, it just floats around the ocean floor waiting for food that floats in front of it.

 

[scrinch]

.... primarily a gelatinous mass, and lacking muscle, it just floats around the ocean floor waiting for food that floats in front of it.

Initially there was quite a controversy about what to call the fish. Before they settled on "blobfish" they also considered teenager fish and husband fish. [emoji12]

 

[Walt34]

This here is a blob fish. As per Smithsonian Magazine, it was voted as the world's ugliest animal. I have mixed feelings about losing my title.

Are you sure it wasn't named after "The Blob" in the movie of the same name?

 

[redduck]

This here is a blob fish. As per Smithsonian Magazine, it was voted as the world's ugliest animal. I have mixed feelings about losing my title.

Maybe the fish should be re-named the "Sam Ervin".

 

[NW-Bound]

To be fair to the blobfish, being a gelatinous mass, in water it looks more like a fish than a blob. It only becomes a blob when taken out of the water. People on the other hand... Oh, never mind.

 

[Meadbh]

To be fair to the blobfish, being a gelatinous mass, in water it looks more like a fish than a blob. It only becomes a blob when taken out of the water. People on the other hand... Oh, never mind.

 

[mickeyd]

The Marines fought and won most of its brutal Korean War Battles but not without humor...

A Republic of S.Korea Commander's unit was fighting alongside the Marines in one conflict and called Marine Colonel Chesty Puller to report a Chinese attack in his sector...







"How many Chinese are attacking you?" said Puller.







"Many, many Chinese!" replied the Korean officer.







Puller asked for another count and got the same answer, "Many, many, many Chinese!"







"#%$@*^$@#!" swore Puller, "Put my Marine Officer on the radio."





























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An American voice came over the air: "Yes sir Colonel?"







"Lieutenant," growled Chesty, exactly how many Chinese you got up there?"








"Colonel, we got a whole **** load of Chinese up here!"


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"Thank God." said Puller, "At least there's someone up there who knows how to count."




























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[TromboneAl]

This here is a blob fish. As per Smithsonian Magazine, it was voted as the world's ugliest animal. I have mixed feelings about losing my title.

Interesting. They used that in Men in Black 3 (at 1:30). I thought it was made up.

 

[redduck]

Al, nice catch.

 

[Alan]

After "The 4 Yorkshiremen" came the 3 geeks

 

[braumeister]

One of my favorite jokes along those lines was while the USSR was collapsing. There was widespread destruction and looting of churches in Moscow; the ikons were being stolen and stained glass windows were smashed.

On hearing this, my friend commented "No icons, no windows? I guess they'll have to say Mass at the prompt."

 

[scrinch]

Their church had a DOS prompt? Lucky sods! At ours we had to interpret the Latin from used computer punch cards that we had cut out of old shoe box lids. And the holes in the shoe box lids left great gaps in the roof to let the rain in.

 

[Nodak]

It's hunting season

 

[Nodak]

from facebook

 

[Nodak]

beware of squirrels

 

[robnplunder]

after "the 4 yorkshiremen" came the 3 geeks

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[Alan]

01001000 01000001 01001000 0100001

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*translates to Hah!

 

[zedd]

 

[REWahoo]

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[Chuckanut]

More bad news on the computer security front:

China Unable To Recruit Hackers Fast Enough To Keep Up With Vulnerabilities In U.S. Security Systems - The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Liu Xiang, who confirmed that the thousands of Chinese computer experts employed to expose flaws in American data systems are just no match for the United States’ increasingly ineffective digital safeguards.

 

[frayne]

More bad news on the computer security front:

China Unable To Recruit Hackers Fast Enough To Keep Up With Vulnerabilities In U.S. Security Systems - The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Probably more truth to that than satire !

 

[TromboneAl]

Yesterday, I saw someone wearing this T-shirt:

 

[Nemo2]

Not a joke, per se, but the letter to a Singapore paper, and the subsequent inventive responses, is hilarious:

Unsafe to sew on train, Letters on the Web News & Top Stories - The Straits Times

 

[braumeister]

What a hoot!
I always think of Singapore as probably the most highly civilized city on the planet (sometimes a good thing, but not always). It's nice to see how much fun people had with the original letter.