The Elements Of A Good Funny Video — John Fair

The internet has recently bloomed with a number of places to post your funny video, creative video, or other clever home made bit of cinematography. Sites such as You Tube and Google Videos are central exchanges of funny videos and other popular video types, and there are also a number of other special purpose funny video sites that specialize in the funny video genre. The act of creating a funny video is not as simple as thinking of a few jokes or funny situations and then g...

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Saving Animals with a Scientific Study that Boosts Male Potency — Nola Lee Kelsey

At a press conference Thursday morning Scientists at the US Government’s Sterility Treatment and Impotency Facility (STIF) in South Dakota announced their findings. “We caution the public not to panic,” advised study Director, Abat Freakentime.

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A Condom by Any Other Name — Lilith Mill

Condoms, jimmies, rubbers…you might think you’ve heard them all. Condoms are one of the world’s most common prophylactics. Here are 5 things that you might not otherwise know about condoms and their names.

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Knowing the Ropes Can be a Lifeline — Mary Fagan

A humorous look at how parents with experience can help out those going through parenting challenges for the first time.

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The Invention Of The Sky, Second Half of Part Four, The Invention of Everything, An Eyewitness Account — Tom Attea-NewsLaugh.com

“I dunno. If I did, I’d be in tech.”

“Heat.”

“Oh, right. We don’t want the team to be cold, at least, not all the time.”

“No way. They’d be miserable.”

“And we don’t want that.”

“So we need light and heat.”

“How do we manage that?”

“We’re thinking of overheads.”

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Nobel Prizes Awarded; Alfred Nobel Excluded — Tom Attea-NewsLaugh.com

As the world indulges in another reverent obeisance to the Nobel Prize and its genuinely laudable recipients, we should take a moment to observe that Alfred Nobel has been excluded.

What? Have you noticed that the prizes in science go with reliable regularity to very deserving academic researchers but, as W. S. Gilbert would say, ‘Never," "What never?" "Well, hardly ever!" to an independent inventor.

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Why Are The Most Successful Electric Cars On Mars? — Tom Attea-NewsLaugh.com

Think about the Mars Rovers Opportunity and Spirit, the solar-powered vehicles that were designed to carry on for ninety days of Martian exploration but have now gone ten times that long – and are still going and going. Witness the great shots Opportunity just sent back from the edge of the Victoria crater.

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Dispute Over Fish Oil Gets Smoky Hot — Tom Attea-NewsLaugh.com

It appears that fish oil prevents second heart attacks but primarily in Europe. It has become the usual practice over there to prescribe purified fish oil to patients who have had a heart attack. Their longevity increases through the likely benefit of preventing future heart attacks.

But in the U. S. fish oil, as a rich source of omega-3, hasn’t been given nearly as much of an opportunity to benefit our cardiovascular systems, at least, not the prescription-grade of the fishy substance known by the brand name of Omacor, which is, among other tidy benefits, mercury-free.

Now, the dispute has gotten smoky hot.

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New Book About End Of Life On Earth; Skips Beginning Of It — Tom Attea-NewsLaugh.com

Yet another bleak new book about the end of life on the earth has emerged from the darkling presses, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Unnfortunately, the author skips something that has not yet occurred: the beginning of life on earth.

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The Invention Of The Sky: Part Four of The Invention of Everything, An Eyewitness Account — Tom Attea-NewsLaugh.com

Once we invented water, we realized that for rain to work right we had to have a place for it to go up into and fall back down from. We settled on a working name called the sky and set aside today’s meeting to invent it. As usual, the CEO kicked off the discussion.

“We seem to be moving in the right direction. So far we’ve got –“

He pointed to my notepad.

“– sex, land, and water,” I recapped.

“Good. So let’s take up the sky. Any thoughts?”

“It can’t be too heavy.”

“Why not?”

“It’s going to be on top of everything else, isn’t it?”

“Good point.”

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Bush Claims Approval Rating At All Time High; His Wife Told Him — Tom Attea-NewsLaugh.com

Why is President Bush unconcerned about his approval rating, which has now sunk to 33%?

He’s certain it’s at an all-time high. How does he know? He asked his ever-faithful wife.

For instance, here is the transcript of a discussion with the reliable spouse that was leaked to the press by their ever-attentive dog.

“Laura, I’m feeling a little down today.”

“Why, George?”

“I guess the mood just goes with how I’m feeling about my approval rating.”

“What approval rating?”

“You know, the one that’s not as high as it used to be. I try not to care, but – “

“– Poor Georgy-Porgy, I can’t bear to see you feel so low.”

“Then, please, cheer me up.”

“Did you say ‘up’?”

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North Korea Throws Nuclear Tantrum; Cries For More Monetary Milk — Tom Attea-NewsLaugh.com

Hear little Kim Jong Il wail, “Wah! Wah!” I need more financial aid, and, so I’m going to throw a nuclear tantrum, until you give me all the monetary milk I need. And just to make his point, he actually did go and set off an underground nuclear test.

The testy child is afflicted with an oppressive anomaly. In a world where one Asian newborn after another is growing in a remarkably healthy way, he’s just doesn’t seem to have the physical wherewithal to keep up.

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Social Security And The Mystery Of The Missing Boomer FICA Payments — Tom Attea-NewsLaugh.com

Hardly a day goes by that we don’t hear FED Chairman Ben Bernake or some other voice of the government bemoaning the sad and unsustainable expense of Social Security. You know the drill: How can it go on with all the baby boomers reaching retirement age?

Here’s Bernake at his most daring to date, addressing the Economics Club of Washington, which, we all know, wields much more influence than AARP: ''Reform of our unsustainable entitlement programs'' should be a priority. “The imperative to undertake reform earlier rather than later is great.''

But hold it a moment. Haven’t all those baby boomers watched the Federal Government neatly extract FICA payments from their paychecks for the forty or so years they’ve worked?

So where’s the money?

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Oops, Almost Forgot We’re At War — Tom Attea-NewsLaugh.com

These days we have more reasons than we’d really like to think the worst of the world.

The news pulls into our lives every morning like a train, filled with discouraging baggage, like the daily Baghdad body count, the evil expostulations of leading malefactors, and, to add dismay to our discouragement, we regularly hear our own leaders speak of trying to locate and kill this or that terrorist, even relatively jocular Bill Clinton saying, in regard to his own intentions toward Osama Bin Laden, that he would have “taken him out.” Who are we hearing here, Mafioso Bill?

Encompassed as we are by such darkness, are we to despair entirely of the longed-for concept of a civilized world? Not really.

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What is Islamic Behavior? Generally, How Islamic People Behave — Tom Attea-NewsLaugh.com

We’re going to attempt what, until now, seems undoable for an infidel: write about Islamic behavior in a way that doesn’t upset Muslims or anybody else. Is that a challenge or isn’t it? Not really. All it takes, we think with persistent resistance to despair, is unwavering fairness, inarguable logic, and adherence to the truth as best as we can know and endorse it.

So here goes.

These days, we hear a great deal about what Islamic and un-Islamic behavior is. While it’s an understandable topic of discussion, the truth is, Islamic behavior pretty much comes down to how Islamic people behave – just as any other group’s behavior pretty much comes down to how the members of the group behave.

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