Cleaner Bits For a Tidier Net February 28, 2006It's that time again! As many of you know, each leap year the internet must be shut down for 24 hours in order to allow us to clean it. The cleaning process, which eliminates dead email and inactive ftp, www and gopher sites, allows for a better-working […]

If you are still alone this Valentine's Day, it might be time to get desperate. Here are probably the worst chat up lines ever:- Do you come here often?Where have you been all my life?You look a lot like my next girlfriend / boyfriend. Do you have a map? I just keep on getting lost […]

A man walks into a pet shop and heads directly to the bird section. The owner comes over and asks if he can help. “Yeah, I'd like a parrot," the man says, that one there'll do. The owner puts the parrot in a cage and the man pays and leaves the shop. He drives to […]

The Law Society in Britain has highlighted some unusual pieces of legislation which remain on the statute book. Hanging washing in the street, beating a carpet and flying a kite are set out in the Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, (chapter 89, section 28) as punishable by a £1,000 fine. It is also illegal to […]

powered by ODEO Here's an easy game to play.Here's an easy thing to say. If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort.And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report! If […]

The following "history" of the world was pasted together from certfiably genuine student bloopers collected by teachers throughout the United States, from eighth grade through college level. Read carefully, and you will learn a lot. The inhabitants of Egypt were called mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and […]