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How to write a Limerick

The trouble with wearing the tartan /is everyone thinks you're a Spartan /who relishes cold /in the goolies. (I'm told /the best way to heat 'em is fartan!) A limerick is a short verse in a well-defined form which...

19 comments    poetry humour verse
Do you come here often?67

Questioning the Beggar vs. Raising the Dead: Understanding a commonly lost opportunity

So far has English usage deteriorated that hardly anyone alive knows how to correctly QUESTION THE BEGGAR, far less spin the inflatable...

34 comments    language humour lazarus
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Tattoo Poem

Choose your tattoo artist with care - especially if he is working on a part you can't see...

26 comments    poetry poem tattoo
ray davies - in a dark brown voice, she said 'lola'70

Synesthography - The Ultimate Creative Art Form - The First Synesthetic Camera

Synesthesia affects about one person in twenty-five. Technically, it could be considered a mental 'disorder', however most synesthetes would disagree. Now Synesthography brings synesthesia to everyone!

23 comments    music humor art
Paraglider profile image73

The Wrong Bar - a Short Story set in Rural France, with Engineers, Cows and Whisky

There are stages of drunkenness. Ken and Alan had reached stage five. No judgement, tons of energy, the luck of the devil, and a burning urge to put it into practice. It was a shame their hotel overlooked a field of cows.

43 comments    humour engineer cow
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The Disappearing Volcanic Islands, Paper & Garagula

Paper was a volcanic island close to the French protectorate, Car de Bord, in the South Pacific. The 1779 eruption was cataclysmic. The island, with its small populace, was wholly obliterated and would have passed from human ken had it not been for...

18 comments    poetry history humour
a cheap and cheerful hotel70

Paraglider's Brief Case - A Pointless Ramble that Ends Well (for a London Tramp)

CCTV stares from every lamp standard and shop door. I'm being watched, about to perform a suspicious act. Who in their senses drops a shiny black brief case in a waste bin? In Oxford Street? Bomb scares are made of this.

38 comments    humor london recycling
jonathan livingston calvin (another emissary of providence)71

Predestination - Believe it or Nuts!

Joe's hammer, now approaching thirty miles an hour, strikes the cast-iron frame with a loud report. Peter drops his penis and swears. He recovers from his fright, inspects his trousers, and swears again, this time with feeling.

17 comments    religion humor predestination
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A Cure for Arthritis in Dogs

Arthritis, in dogs as in humans, usually starts slowly, typically in middle age, though the early symptoms may have been present and ignored for several years. Humans are (or should be) aware of the condition...

6 comments    pets dogs dog
what plungersome thing art thou?63

The Art of Accidental or Serendipitous Photography - Knees, Plungers & Aliens

You can take photographs deliberately or your phone can take them by accident. Knees, Plungers & Aliens all feature in this random collection. Enjoy...

13 comments    entertainment photography humour
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