Humor Theory & Humorous Theories

Thursday's Child & The Queen of Swords: Glamorous sleuth-couple Flora and Shamus delve into the underworld of call-girls, telephone psychics, crystal addicts, corrupt lawyers, and things that go bump in the night

Lee Hobbs' English Blog featuring "Bizarre English Metaphors and Similes" contains gems such as ...

[14] "Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph." &

[16] "John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met." &

[17] "He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East River." &

[25] "He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up."

Thursday's Child &
The Queen of Swords
dark comedic mystery
by Rosalie Stafford

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Haiti Is Example of French Cultural Superiority, Says Chirac. [dateline: Paris] "Speaking at the annual meeting of the Societe du Hauteur et Snobbishness Gallique, French President Jacques Chirac said yesterday that Haiti is a prime example of French cultural superiority. 'Ze Western Hemisphere ees so horrible, but thank goodness zat Haiti remains an oasis of cultural refinement and political stability,' said M. Chirac."

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Global Warming: Earth can EXPLODE!!! warns: "If we do not to anything TODAY ABOUT Greenhouse Emissions that cause the entire atmosphere to trap more Solar Heat, we will hot survive THE NEXT DECADE. In a systematically under-cooled spherical core reactor the cumulative cause-effect relationship is HYPERBOLIC and leads to explosion. There will be no second chance." The site urges the visitor: "Please forward this page (or the link to it) to ANY scientist or person of integrity whom you know ... Withholding, distorting or otherwise interfering with the Truth about the Planetary Core is a Crime Against Humanity -- one of the greatest crimes that a man can commit."

World Cities and Personality Structure, copiously illustrated and closely reasoned, informs: "The transformation of cells into adults and of clay and stone into cities is guided by the same DNA stored information ... In the gradually improving city-forms phenotypic plasticity arises from a neuroplasticity, characterized by an entrainment in messages. Both compose a corresponding sequence of analogies."

Revelation 13: Mad Cow Disease (BSE) -- A New Age / Prophecy Analysis notes that Mad-Cow Disease infecting people's brains was announced on 20 March 1996 in England as the Comet Hyakutake passed by the constellation (I mean constellation, not astological sign) Virgo the virgin. I think that virgo the Virgin represents Isis, the Egyptian Goddess portrayed with cow's horns, giving us a "cow" connection. And Virgo may also represent Europa, representing Europe, who rides a bull, again giving us a "cow" connection." Another scrupulously reasoned disquisition.