College student humor is on file at
.
[WebSiteDaily, 03Feb00. net-hap.]
The Wacky Patent of the Month website
is .
[Curt Davis , DUC, 13May99.]
There is also a website for Erroneous Predictions
and Negative Comments Concerning Scientific and Technological
Developments, at , said to be taken from a 1969
Congressional Research Report. [Amnon Till ,
net-hap, 02Mar00.]
Product warnings and instructions can be pretty stupid,
as shown at .
[Ben Cooper , NetSites, 16May00.]
For serious satire and parody, see The Onion
daily newspaper at .
[Alan S. Harrell , NetSites, 18May00.]
(A college favorite.)
SatireWire offers "New Satire for the New Economy,"
making up stories about dot-coms and the B2U
(Business-to-Unemployment) marketplace.
.
[Timothy J. Mullaney, BW, 18Dec00, p. 84.]
Paranoid Joe is a cartoon ezine about "living in
today's tough world." .
[Michael Ewing , newjour, 11Jan01.]
"User Friendly" by Illiad is a popular cartoon strip
about the techs and geeks at an Internet service provider.
There's even an AI. "Reads like Dilbert for the
Information Technology and Open Source communities."
. O'Reilly & Associates
have published two books of the cartoons, "User Friendly"
and "Evil Geniuses in a Nutshell." See
.
[Lisa Mann , net-hap, 18Apr00.]
Speaking of evil geniuses, the Evil Plan Generator is
back online. .
[Brandon Laws , 15Jan01.]
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"I've raised children, lived around children,
tended other people's children, and even been a child myself.
I know that children are evil. Children are to a peaceful
and enjoyable life what the Goths were to Roman social order."
-- Robert Kirby.
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