This week’s “Amusing Monday” is an experiment of sorts. It’s
well understood that we humans often laugh when things surprise us.
If the people involved recover from an unexpected event, we call it
humor. If they don’t, we call it tragedy.
Hooked while jumping /
From funnyhub.com
Some people find the following videos involving boat accidents
quite funny, as revealed in the comments that follow on YouTube.
Some people express concern for the people who were caught
unaware.
I hope you find these amusing, since it appears that few of the
people in the videos were seriously injured. But I would be
interested to hear your viewpoints about what makes accidents
humorous — or not.
“Talk Like a Pirate Day” is almost here. It will be this Sunday,
Sept. 19. All folks, good and bad, are called on to, well, talk
like a pirate for a day.
Strangely enough, this international event started out with a
couple of
guys — John “Ol’ Chumbucket” Baur and Mark “Cap’n Slappy”
Summers joking around while playing racquetball. They started
poking fun and encouraging each other in pirate lingo. The two
celebrated the annual occasion of talking like pirates somewhat
quietly among friends for seven years until 2002, when they sent
the idea to syndicated columnist
Dave Barry, who made it an international event.
So now these two guys have a website, TalkLikeaPirate.com, which
has grown through the years and includes tips and all manner of fun
and games.
There’s also the official “International Talk Like a Pirate Fan
Page” on Facebook,
and I’m sure this crazy idea has started producing some major booty
for them and a good number of other folks who have jumped aboard
the Jolly Roger. I’ll leave you to investigate these treasures on
your own.
In the spirit of Amusing Monday, I’d like to share with you this
video about Robot Pirates, which I found amusing, though it
probably has nothing to do with Talk Like a Pirate Day.
But the event was clearly being celebrated by Freaking News and
a bunch of folks who created Photoshop images on the theme “If
pirates ruled the world.” Most include some well-known people
dressed as pirates in various situations, which I think you’ll find
amusing. Since the contest has been going on several years, there
are a lot of photos, organized here in galleries:
