At a southern university, students in the psychology program were attending their first class on emotional extremes. “Just to establish some parameters,” said the professor to the student from Arkansas, “what is the opposite of joy?” “Sadness,” said the student. “And the opposite of depression?” he asked of the young lady from Oklahoma. “Elation,” she [...]

A computer scientist, a surgeon, and a civil engineer were gathered at the pub. The surgeon boasts, Surgery is the oldest technology in the world. It’s in the Bible. God removed Adam’s rib while he slept. This is clear evidence that surgery pre-dates all other technological endevors. Without so much as a beat, the civil [...]

Murphy Computer Law 1 75% of the bugs laws in this page can be applied to MS Windows (Any version). Murphy Computer Law 2 90% of a programmer errors come from data from other programmers. Murphy Computer Law 3 A chain letter – will be sent. To global. A dozen times. Murphy Computer Law 4 [...]

North vs. South Joke 1 The North has coffee houses, the South has Waffle Houses. North vs. South Joke 2 The North has Cream of Wheat, the South has grits. North vs. South Joke 3 The North has double last names; the South has double first names. North vs. South Joke 4 The North has [...]

I first ran into the problem of explaining Russian humour to Westerners while in graduate school. When I told family and friends that my master’s thesis was about laughter in Russian literature, they would laugh at me. Typically, in the Western imagination, Russians are sombre people, who live in cold places, dress in grey or [...]