MetaFilter posts tagged with silly and humor

Freaky Face Paint

Secret Life of Gravy — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:55:02 -0800

Face + Paint = ! Astonishing effects using the human face as canvas.

You are not yet enlightened, Inky-san.

JHarris — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:57:41 -0800

Retro Sabotage is a collection of recreations of classic video games. Or is it? Hint: It's not, but to explain them would be to spoil it. If a button needs to be pressed, it's the space bar unless it's explained otherwise. My advice is to try the Pac-Man and Space Invaders ones first, but Pong 2.0 is a highlight.

Smokey Stover

JHarris — Fri, 18 May 2007 10:28:57 -0800

Foo! Notary sojac! 1506 nix nix!

And get yourself free...

danb — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 22:00:41 -0800

That damn Paul Simon sold us short! Here are the other 45 ways to leave your lover.

cat-snorting.com

mr_crash_davis — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:48:12 -0800

kontraband.com is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their noses, or why.

This is Pinky. He's a very loving cat.

majick — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 05:06:17 -0800

This is Pinky. He's a very loving cat. [Link to Coral cache, 1.9MB WMV file, playable in mplayer]

A Monty Python art lover, perhaps?

taz — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 07:41:10 -0800

(Danger! Danger! Silly .gif images ahead!) A little something to file under "wacky web": ballOOns Museum German web site, featuring classic paintings and sculpture with a dollop of goofy animation thrown in for fun. After you enter, click "Gemälde" and "Skulpturen" in the new window to view the galleries.

Are you an Asinus Petasatus? Then you'll love this...

taz — Tue, 18 May 2004 01:42:30 -0800

Arsole? Putrescine? Dickite? Moronic Acid? This list of Molecules with Silly or Unusual Names (one NSFW image) proves that scientists can be funny, as does this Stuffy Scientists page, and Mark Isaak's terribly thorough Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature (see, especially, Puns). If you are tempted to wonder what the Father of Taxonomy might have thought of the irreverence of those last two collections, keep in mind that Linnaeus himself named this plant "Clitoria Mariana" in honor of an 'acquaintance', according to this page.

Pure. Meaningless. Funny.

Denial of Service — Fri, 24 Jan 2003 20:04:13 -0800

Meaningless and funny. I think the web is totally lacking in good writing that is totally irrelevant, funny, and doesn't try to preach. Why does everyone have to take a stance in order to be popular? Irritus is completely immaterial and cracks me up. It's perfect friday material.

NYT: Oops

Vidiot — Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:50:27 -0800

No giant sea sparrow is known to be endangered by the eating habits of goats. ...so quoth the NYT. Funniest correction I've seen in a while; even better than the ones in the Guardian.