This is an old one, but I couldn’t resist, sorry…

One of the delights of the modern age is the act of surfing randomly round the internet, seeing what surprises there are in store. Things you’ve never thought of, but strike you as comedy genius on discovery.
Y’know, like Christian Aerobics LP covers…

…and the people who collect them.
It even happens with Christian writers sometimes, too. Every [...]

The Methodist Church is dying off. According to some (v. disputed) figures from Religious Trends 7, there will be only 3,600 Methodists by 2050, down from around 267,461 in 2007.
This precipitous predicted decline is because Methodists are old, with the bell-curve of attendees-by-age right-shifted by some 20 years (compared to church-going averages). Basically, unless they [...]

The Hindenburg Disaster, Velcro, and Mount Rushmore are all younger than the presumptive Republican nominee.
(As are both Barack Obama’s parents – who are both dead)
www.thingsyoungerthanmccain.com
Inspired…

Science, it seems, can quantify anything:
“…on the subject of art and beauty, I must mention Asimov’s suggestion… of a unit for quantifying the measurement of beauty: “the millihelen.”
If the beauty of Helen of Troy was sufficient to launch a thousand ships, then one millihelen would be beauty sufficient to launch a single ship.“
[From here, via [...]

In a similar vein, the BBC surpass themselves (beating even the spaghetti trees in my opinion)

The Guardian runs down some of the ones it has spotted (The Sun’s is hilarious), including the above.

Well, it’s that time of year again, and it looks to me like those guys at Google have surpassed themselves…
made me laugh even more than Guinness’ inverted pint…
 
 
Oh, if only it were true! 
If it stays up, the details can be found here.

Quote of the day:
“Normally I’m so self-absorbed that if you hug me hard you’re likely to get ego all over your sweater…”
[From here]