Ian's Humour Collection

My favourites are shown thus.
  • General humour
  • Office humour
  • Science humour
  • Computer humour
  • Some other collections and sites

  • General humour

  • A Night Out In Uttoxeter, Staffs (remote)
  • Advice to Visiting Language Students in Cambridge
  • American student howlers
  • Bad Ads (from Wamzle: The Funny Pages)
  • Bandwaggon excerpt
  • MIT Birdseed at Harvard
  • Bricklayer's accident report
  • Beer during a C.U. exam
  • The Declaration of Independence - a management analysis
  • Derby-winning cows
  • Downsizing the American Christmas
  • Dwyle Flunking
  • Find-The-Spam (remote)
  • The Five Levels of Drinking (from Wamzle: The Funny Pages)
  • Hancock's Half Hour excerpt
  • "Hear me moan!"
  • Hot weather signs
  • <humourless company> Warranty
  • In a private plane
  • Letter from Sid by Jack Warner
  • Light Bulbs
  • Manchester Olympics 2000
  • Mr. Murgatroyd and Mr. Winterbottom excerpt
  • Nutters e-mails
  • The Palone Ranger sketch from Round The Horne
  • Plane-spotting Penguins
  • Pigeons on the Tube
  • Police Close M25
  • Politically Correct Christmas Poem
  • Preparing for Parenthood (remote)
  • Relationships (from Wamzle: The Funny Pages)
  • Rita Rudner's 50 Facts on Men
  • Scottish perspective on the Maastricht Treaty of European Union
  • Shakespearean Insult (remote)
  • Soap!
  • Summer 1996 Movies
  • Tennis elbow
  • Touring Foreign Parts: York
  • Why A Beer Is Better Than A Man (remote)
  • Why A Beer Is Better Than A Woman (remote)
  • Why did the chicken cross the road? (collection)
  • Why it takes a licence to drive (from Wamzle: The Funny Pages)

  • Office humour

  • Administratium
  • Bad Meetings
  • The Creation: how policy is made
  • Cretins, Inc. - a monthly series (remote)
  • Genesis
  • God & Tenure
  • Halley's Comet
  • Humour at work
  • Hunting Elephants
  • Training Courses
  • Why ask why?/Worrying about business?

  • Science humour

  • Science Made Simple (remote)
  • Is There A Santa Claus? (The Physics of Santa)
  • Physically Accurate Product Warnings
  • S.P.E.R.M.
  • Annals of Improbable Research archive

  • Computer humour

  • Academic Programmers
  • Befuddled users
  • BOFH
  • COBOL Goldilocks
  • Computer errors and sayings
  • C+-
  • Development responses to Support questions
  • Dear Emily Postnews
  • DEC Wars
  • Four Engineers' Dogs
  • Error Messages
  • Fifty Ways to Confuse, Worry [..] People in the Computer Lab
  • Food For Windows
  • Help desk stories and More help desk stories
  • How It Is
  • How to get better service
  • HP cafeteria
  • Human-Dna.H
  • Hyper-Ethernet
  • CERT Advisory: ID4 Virus Vulnerability
  • If Architects had to work like Programmers
  • If Microsoft Built Cars...
  • If OSs were airlines
  • Internet Nerd Quiz
  • In the Foot
  • Is UNIX for real?
  • Macs and PCs by Umberto Eco
  • The life cycle of mailing lists
  • Microsoft Bids to Acquire Catholic Church
  • Microsoft Buys 1995
  • The Microsoft Conspiracy Interpretation of "American Pi" (remote)
  • Mostly Useless by JRP1 (Jonathan Partington) (aka The Coffee Machine At The End Of The Universe) (local copy)
  • Paranoid Programming Language
  • Passwords
  • Pentium 1 - 2 - 3
  • A Plain Man's Guide to Computer Jargon
  • Power Users
  • Problem report form
  • Programming languages
  • ScentMaster
  • Smileys
  • The story of UNIX
  • Tech Support
  • Twelve bugs of Xmas
  • phx.cam.ac.uk Message-Of-The-Day
  • USENET
  • VAXTREK
  • VAXTREK-1 (remote)
  • VAXTREK-2 (remote)
  • VAXTREK-3 (local)
  • Viruses
  • VMS Genesis
  • Wife 1.0
  • Year 2000 collection from Aberdeen University Y2K pages

  • Some other collections and sites

  • Prairienet British Comedy Clearinghouse
  • Jem's collection
  • HumorNet UK
  • Yahoo:Entertainment:Humour:Archives
  • Mornington Crescent
  • LaughWeb archive
  • NETHUMOR list archive
  • Ken's Humour and Jokes Links
  • St. Peter's College archive
  • et.tudelft.nl archive
  • Wamzle: The Funny Pages
  • Music joke list [98K] (local copy - PowerBook hard disk only)
  • RJN's Comedy of Science Page
  • Jeff Morris' humourous lyrics collection
  • Vintage Comedy Web
  • Mini Journal of Irreproducible Results/Mini Annals of Improbable Research archive
  • AIR Gopher
  • JEST Homepage
  • UCLA CadLab
  • The Internet Comedy Club
  • The Mother of all Humor Archives
  • MAILBASE humour research list archives
  • Nutworks @ spy.org
  • Fun @ spy.org

  • Page last updated 3-May-1998
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