Random Humorous Things - A Light-Hearted Thread

[ignoramus]

OMG, there could be kiddies watching! lol

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Boru

[Rev. Rye]

Last week at Half-Price Books, I got Chester Brown's Paying For It, and while looking for more information on it, I found that Brown decided to add a new influence to his art, and the strange thing is, he writes about and draws the most mundane things in his whoremongering life, but this new influence is anything but:




Yes, this was an actual comic, published in December 1939. To quote TVTropes:

While it's likely that Hanks didn't realize he was creating a Lovecraftian horror that happens to be on our side, here you have a creature who inflicts terrifying fates on evildoers, whose powers run on nonsensoleum, whose origin, nature, and motives are totally unknowable, and whose home is something that's as impossible as he is.

And just to drive home how bizarre it is, he lives on the surface of a star, and flies through space via "highly accelerated light waves in a tubular spacial," which barely even makes sense as a sentence in English, let alone an explanation for how he can fly.

Also, he created Fantomah, the first Superheroine, a year and a half prior to Wonder Woman's first appearance (and, indeed, a few months before William Marston ended up working for DC Comics.) And, as you might have expected from the last video, she was weird, too:

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Disregard.

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Boru

[Amarok]

Too bad you needed Germany to do that and they adopted the metric system in 1870 .

[ignoramus]

yeah but 351ci sounds so much sexier than 5.8l!

[onlinebiker]

Too bad you needed Germany to do that and  they adopted the metric system in 1870 .

Once again - you don't know what the fuck you are talking about.

Germany HALF adopted it.

Tell me the thread size and pitch for a 98 Mauser.

Answer - metric size - inch pitch.

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And I know why - and you don't.

[Fake Messiah]

Scientists use metric system in the lab. Imperial system is more for the masses.

[Fireball]

Scientists use metric system in the lab. Imperial system is more for the masses.

True enough. I used mostly the metric system when in the antenna design business. I busted out laughing the first time I had to spin balance a space craft (career change) and the specs were slug-feet^2 for the moment of inertia.