Archive:Monthly Write-a-Thon/May 5, 2010

May 5, 2010
Humour!

Or 'humor', if you'd rather. In any case, it's all about fun. Let's lighten up and talk about what amuses, what makes us laugh, and did you hear the one about...?

Write-a-Thon starts on May 4th, 1200 UTC, when it starts being Wednesday in New Zealand, and ends on May 6th, 1200 UTC, when it finishes being Wednesday in Hawaii. Write-a-Thon II starts on May 8th, 1200 UTC, when it starts being Sunday in New Zealand, and ends on May 10th, 1200 UTC, when it finishes being Sunday in Hawaii.

The partiers

 * Aleta is not amused. However, we've all survived the Tallong Apple Festival while keeping our sense of humour fast, hence the topic.  I already wrote about Who's on First?, so here's another of my favourites! Aleta Curry 23:32, 4 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Hayford, feeling far from humo(u)rous after having just finished reading two grim novels about Nazi brutalities, nevertheless wrote a new article about the more unrelentingly grim of the two, Pale Moon Rising. It's pretty hard to tell the hero from the bad guys -- as the Kirkus Reviews summed it up: "Especially recommended for aspiring mass murderers and beginning psychopaths."  Ugh. The other novel, An Infinity of Mirrors, at least has some of Richard Condon's usual light-hearted moments of inspired wackiness. Which, when then contrasted to the rest of the book's litany of Nazi horrors, probably makes the whole thing even worse. Well, next month I'll try to find a more cheerful topic.... Hayford Peirce 22:44, 5 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Then did a *major* edit to Aleta's new article by *removing the brackets* from the Visual Arts and Media categories that she had put in the Metadata -- with the brackets there, the categories would not show up properly. Hayford Peirce 22:49, 5 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Peter found it difficult to find a suitable topic. Not because there are no adequate entries, but it had to be something easy enough to do it in time. Finally (and luckily), he remembered the Karikaturmuseum Krems! --Peter Schmitt 23:04, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
 * As addition to Aleta's Apple Festival a started a parent cluster apple festival with a definition and a Catalog. --Peter Schmitt 23:30, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Chris Key isn't having fun. He has five pieces of coursework and two presentations due this month (two this week) for his end of second year BSc coursework, so he isn't feeling up to much writing at the minute.--Chris Key 23:28, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Chris felt like he should do better. He tried his hardest, but nothing happened. --Chris Key 00:14, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Keen-as-mustard and jumped the gun
Chicken-based technologies certainly seems to qualify, both as real things and humor. For the official encore, I shall do Violet Club (nuclear weapon), further indicating the influence of Monty Python on United Kingdom nuclear weapons. Howard C. Berkowitz 23:20, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Who said smart people don't have a sense of humour? (Warped, maybe, but they have one!)Aleta Curry 23:29, 4 May 2010 (UTC)