It's All About the LOL

Websites I go to for the funny. Easy. LOLCats wins. Paws down. Yep. Geek, crazy cat lady, and sorry, just not that hip. It's a curse.

Maybe you have to be a cat person to appreciate the original LOLCats site (which really is mostly cats). But now, there's a LOL site for just about everyone. Just remember, if you click on the Poorly Dressed tab - What has been seen cannot be unseen.

Two Lumps used to be one of my favorites and I still visit the site from time to time, but at some point, a writer who intends to make her deadlines has to stop screwing around on the interwebs, yes? It's no longer a daily addiction, but here:

 Then there are the geek jokes. Oh. Yeah, that's right. This is all 100% geek-fodder, isn't it? Oh, well. Like Jeffe, I too, have a fondness for XKCD - there's a stip about that childhood game we all played - Bloody Mary - perhaps it's telling that it's a strip that amuses me to no end. I was apparently unduly affected by that game. But tell me. When you get up in the middle of the night to pee, do you avoid looking in the bathroom mirror??

This one hurts to laugh at because I was once the poor sod with the pager who got paged at 2am because some self-important git would pull this crap. In my defense, I never had to be escorted out of any of the buildings by security - but it may have been a near thing. This is only funny now because there's a decade between me and my last pager duty shift. My husband, who is a programmer, finds it annoyingly entertaining.

Finally. Stories. These are the websites that have no photos - they're the stories people tell about their experiences. The stories have a slow-spread viral quality and you run across them by happy accident when someone sends you an email or posts it to some social media and you're bored enough to click through. This one is the great Squirrel Versus Man on Motorcycle story. Read it and weep with laughter. I do. Which, again, may say far more about me than about what's actually funny.

Funny Bones

by Allison Pang

The thing about humor is that it's so often in the eye of the beholder, particularly when it comes to geek humor. Lots of inside jokes abound on the internet, and unless you're in the know because you're part of a particular fandom, or you're aware of certain memes or whatever, a lot of jokes can fall flat.

That being said, there's a fair number of places I go through the week to find me a little something to laugh about, so I'll start with there.

1) Oglaf.

Not even remotely safe for work. At all. But full of odd sexual fantasy humor that makes it particularly amusing for the D&D set. It updates every Sunday.

2) The Oatmeal

Also not really safe for work sometimes, but tends to have some excellent satire, particularly about things in the news right this moment...or sometimes it's about that motherfucking pterodactyl.



3) Hyperbole and a Half

Funny because so much of it is so damn true. (Even though it's also sometimes rather sad.)

You've probably seen that particular image if you've been on the internet anytime in the last few years or so - it's spawned a million tumblr memes alone.

Still funny, though.





4) The Bloggess

Jenny is crazy. And awesome. And has a book coming out this month full of her crazy and awesomeness. (And she gets to chat with Wil Wheaton. And Neil Gaimen. And Amanda Palmer and Felicia Day and wow am I jealous.)

5) Tumblr

I'm just putting down Tumblr as a whole here, because if it's anywhere on the internet, it's also on Tumblr. But the beauty of Tumblr is that you can follow people who are like minded - so even though I follow a lot of art tumblrs, I follow a huge number of gaming and geek girl type of tumblrs as well. (And yes, there's a fair amount of gay porn and kittens in that mix, but who's counting, right? Right.)

I usually have Tumblr up all damn day. And I laugh a lot more than I used to. And this is a good thing.

PUT DOWN THE MILK LEST IT SHOOT OUT THY NOSE.

Sorry to all of you for completely dropping the ball last week.

This week though I am here and ready to go.

Now I don't usually troll the interwebs for funny. I don't check Failbook or any of the others. I go straight to the youtube and find things to laugh at.

such as this:




HA! I will watch that video over and over....Cats getting theirs is funny to me...Maybe it's because I have never owned a cat that didn't begin using my laundry basket for a litter box. I am not a cat fan.

Then there is the ever lovely ASK A NINJA. I will get wrapped up in these for hours..it's funny, charming, smart, and can sneak up behind you in a an alley and slit your throat.

Hi larious.



They can throw a shuriken, then jump on top of it. It hits you in the neck and they punch you in the face.


And finally, I love Louise CK. He's raunchy and wrong, and listening to him will make you feel really bad for laughing, but he is so frakkin funny.

Here is a clean bit he did on late night tv that is funny and poignant.




Okay...one more. Stephen Lynch. Funniest man with a guitar....this is about the only clip safe for work so enjoy it. Click on any of his others at your own risk.