http://www.metafilter.com/tags/reference+humor Posts tagged with 'reference' and 'humor' at MetaFilter. Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:53:25 -0800 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:53:25 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/69118/History%2Dwrit%2DGangsta <a href="http://www.cracked.com/article_15895_5-most-badass-presidents-all-time.html">The 5 Most Badass U.S. Presidents of All-Time.</a> Just in time for <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/presidentsday/">Presidents' Day</a> weekend. In ascending order of badassitude: <a href="http://www.cracked.com/article_15895_5-most-badass-presidents-all-time.html" title="Andrew Jackson was the first president on whom an assassination attempt was made. A man named Richard Lawrence approached Jackson with two pistols both of which, for some reason, misfired. With the possibility of an assassination taken off the table, Jackson proceeded to beat Lawrence near death with his cane until Jackson's aides pulled him off the assassin.">Andrew Jackson</a>, <a href="http://www.cracked.com/article_15895_p2.html" title="In August of 1943, while serving as skipper of the PT-109, Kennedy's boat was ripped in two by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri. Kennedy and his crew were tossed into the water and surrounded by flames. Kennedy, despite a chronic back injury and an even more chronic boning-induced-exhaustion, managed to swim four hours to safety while towing an injured crewman by the life jacket strap with his teeth. His fucking teeth!">John F. Kennedy</a>, <a href="http://www.cracked.com/article_15895_p3.html" title="Also, since we're talking about ridiculous things that JQA did that have nothing to do with being president, he kept a pet alligator in the East Wing of the White House. That actually probably came in handy for some of that shrewd negotiating we mentioned earlier.">John Quincy Adams</a>, <a href="http://www.cracked.com/article_15895_p4.html" title="He described being surrounded by bullets and death and concluded by saying 'I heard the bullets whistle and, believe me, there is something charming to the sound of bullets.'">George Washington</a> and your number 1, <a href="http://www.cracked.com/article_15895_p5.html" title="While campaigning for a third term, Roosevelt was shot by a madman and, instead of treating the wound, delivered his campaign speech with the bleeding, undressed bullet hole in his chest.">Theodore Roosevelt</a>. </a> Honorable mention: <a href="http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/collection/people.php?id=1234766&lid=1" title="Who put himself through excruciating pain to maintain the charade the he was not paraplegic">FDR </a>, <a href="http://hnn.us/articles/189.html" title="Dropped the big one, huh? - He dropped two big ones on them">Harry S Truman</a> and <a href="http://www.jameskpolk.com/new/" title="Polk passed up a second term because he achieved and took care of everything he wanted to do for the country in his first term">James K. Polk</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.69118 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:53:25 -0800 cracked History humor presidents reference trivia psmealey http://www.metafilter.com/65143/Famous%2DESTPs%2Dinclude%2DP%2DT%2DBarnum%2Dand%2DDR%2DPETER%2DOKOYE%2DSON%2DOF%2DTHE%2DLATE%2DPRESIDENT%2DOF%2DNIGERIA%2DM%2DB%2DOKOYE <a href="http://www.xeromag.com/fun/personality.html">Myers-Briggs personality types made relevant</a> As you probably already know, the <a href="http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp">Myers-Briggs Personality Sorter</a> is intended to be a general, universal personality ID that divides people into one of sixteen distinct personality types, along axes if introverted (I) or extroverted (E), Sensing (S) or Intuitive (N), Thinking (T) or Feeling (F), and Judging (J) or Perceiving (P). Related: the <a href="http://www.astrostar.com/Perverse_astrology.htm">Real Astrology</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.65143 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 05:43:03 -0800 humor jung myers-briggs personality reference psmealey http://www.metafilter.com/47136/Standup%2Dcomedy%2Dcultural%2Dhot%2Dbutton%2DWikipedia%2Dhack <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Mostrevisions">Standup comedy cultural hot button Wikipedia hack.</a> Standup comics! Need a cultural hot button topic for a joke? Check out <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Mostrevisions">Wikipedia articles with the most revisions</a>. Comedy gold. Just pick a topic and start riffing. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.47136 Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:34:17 -0800 howto humor internet reference tips tools web wiki wikipedia basilwhite http://www.metafilter.com/44583/Read%2Dthis%2Dpost%2Dor%2DIll%2Dkill%2Dthis%2Ddog <a href="http://lampoon.rwinters.com/">This gallery of National Lampoon magazine covers</a> coupled with <a href="http://www.marksverylarge.com/" title="covering the magazine's 'golden years,' 1970-1975">Mikes' Very Large National Lampoon Site</a> should help you waste several minutes. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.44583 Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:34:39 -0800 covers DoIt! humor lampoon magazine nationallampoon reference satire scans me3dia http://www.metafilter.com/17815/ <a href="http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/howmuchinside.html">How much is inside?</a> tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.17815 Fri, 14 Jun 2002 06:21:24 -0800 fun funny geek humor measurement reference science Spoon