This week we are looking at funny things that happen when we ride bikes. Big Passy loves bike riding, and recently bought a brand new model Haro mountain bike:
Haro bikes are strong, reliable, and and provide an excellent quality ride. Check them out at this website: http://www.haro.com.au/mtb/bikes/
Well enough of me gloating over my new bike, and let's get onto the funnies!
Here is a great little prank played on some unsuspecting recreational mountain bikers:
Of course some people need to use their bicycles for work related activities. And if you are going to work with your bike, well you might as well make it a worthwhile load!
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Big Passy has some panier bags on his bike's packrack and uses these for carting supermarket shopping. However, we are limited in load capacity, and thus need to shop regularly. Perhaps we should buy a more purpose-made bicycle in the near future:
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A few quick bicycle jokes that you might like.
Q. When is a bicycle not a bicycle? A. When it turns into a driveway.
Q. Why can’t a bicycle stand up by itself? A. Because it is two-tired (too tired).
Q. Why can’t an elephant ride a bicycle? A. Because he doesn’t have a thumb to ring the bell.
Q. Which Elizabethan sailor could stop bikes? A. Sir Francis Brake !
Q. What do you call a woman with a bicycle on her head? A. Petal !
Q. What do you get if you cross a bike and a rose? Bicycle petals !
Q. What do you get if you cross a chemical and a bicycle ? A. Bike carbonate of soda !
Q. What did the bicycle call its dad? A. Pop-cycle.
Okay then, time for some classic bicycle bloopers from YouTube:
It is so much better to go riding with a friend. Here is the long and the tall of tandem riding.
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Or maybe we want to keep a lower profile when riding together:
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And why not ride with your best friend everywhere, even at Walmart! It looks like a lot of fun, as per this YouTube video clip.
Here is a mature age Biking Joke.
"Going Deaf"
A tandem rider is stopped by a police car.
"What've I done, officer?" asks the rider.
"Perhaps you didn't notice sir, but your wife fell off your bike half a mile back . . ."
"Oh, thank God for that," says the rider - "I thought I'd gone deaf!"
Finally, let's watch a few more bicycle bloopers from YouTube:
That's it for another week. I would have loved to have ridden my mountan bike along the flat Nile river delta in Egypt. I saw some American tourists doing it and it looked like great fun. Oh well I will have to make do with a bush ride on the weekend.
This week we are taking a funny look at Egypt. This is part of a theme for Passy World for the next few weeks, as we travel around the Arab world for the first time ever.
Let's start off with some wonderful Egyptian Art:
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Here is a T-Shirt that no Egyptologist should be without:
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It is of course the mummies that are the most famous part of Egypt. But did you know that they also had a fabulous rock band?
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And now for some fabulous mummie jokes. These are so old, they are bound to get a laugh!
Q. Why do mummies tell no secrets? A. Because they keep things under wraps.
Q. Do mummies enjoy being mummies? A. Of corpse!
Q. Who is the best mummy wrapper in Egypt? A. The Wizard of Gauze
Q. What do you call a mummy who eats cookies in bed? A. A crummy mummy.
Q. What did the sign in the Egyptian funeral home say? A. Satisfaction guaranteed or double your MUMMY back!
Q. How do mummies hide? A. They wear masking tape.
Q. Why did the mummy call the doctor? A. Because he was coffin.
Q. What is a mummy’s favorite music? A. Ragtime.
Q. What did the mummy say when he got angry with the skeleton? A. I've got a bone to pick with you.
Q. What do you get if you cross a mummy with a CD? A. A wrap song.
Speaking of Wrap songs, here is a famous Egyptian rapper who you may or may not instantly recognise:
Here at Passy World we will be closing down for the next three weeks to do a massive trip around Egypt and the Arab world. Of particular interest will be the mathematical precision of the pyramids, as well as hyroglyphics, and other ancient Egyptian mysteries.
Basically we will be following a travel path along the Nile as shown in the map below.
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Our main stops will be at Cairo, Luxor, and Aswan. Sights to be seen along the way will be the Great Pyramid, the Valley of the Kings, a river cruise down the majestic Nile, and a host of other sight seeing at towns and markets along the way.
We are particularly looking forward to seeing these big guys at the famous Abu Simble Temple:
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There are many other great sites that we hope to explore in the ancient world, especially anything to do with the reign of Ramses.
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We are also very keen to see as much Egyptian Art as possible.
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It will also be interesting to fnd out the proper historical interpretations of these magnificent artworks.
Apparently the picture below is NOT of a husband desperately seeking permission from the wife to go along on a wild weekend with his buddies. (A full weekend of non-stop action, including some wild eagle flying after slamming down far too many jager and goat's milk shots!).
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While we are away until mid October, there will probably be no website blog updates. You good people might just have to get by playing a few games of "Bricks of Egypt", to while away the time until we return.
This week we are going back to take a funny look at some of the best movies of all time: the magnificent Star Wars Trilogy.
There is bound to be plenty of laughs when we cross over to the dark side, and let rip with some great send ups of these classics.
Let's start with this character called "Chad Vader". There are lots of Chad Vader episodes on YouTube, but this is one of our very favorite ones.
There is a brilliant old Mel Brooks movie that is a great send up of "Star Wars". It is caled "Spaceballs" and here is a typical scene from that movie.
Top Ten Reasons Annakin Joined the Dark Side
1. Wanted cool voice like James Earl Jones.
2. Owed money to Jabba the Hutt, and could refinance debt through the Empire.
3. Wanted to use the Force to prop up Chrysler stock.
4. Charmed by Emporer Palpatine's seductive after-shave
5. Misunderstood name, thought the "Dirk Side" was fan club for pretty-boy actor Dirk Benedict.
6. Kicked in head by bantha.
7. To impress the babes.
8. To escape cruel taunting over his dorky name.
9. Sick and tired of mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi reciting lines from "Bridge over the River Kwai".
10. Generous Dark Lords of the Sith pension plan.
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Some of the dark lords have not faired so well however, and they are now forced to beg with the homeless as their only means of survival.
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Then there is the problem of what does a dark lord do for alternative sources of employment once his movie contract is up? Here is a hilarious look at the endless job possibilities for Darth Sidious in the new millenium.
If you are wondering what old storm troopers do on their day off in a big city; then like other old dudes, they head to the park and feed the pigeons.
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Why the Chicken Crossed the Road ?
VADER: Because it could not resist the power of the Dark Side.
YODA: Crossing the road makes not a chicken great.
LUKE: Crossing the road is one thing, this is.... totally different.
LUKE: I want to follow the ways of the chicken and cross the road like my father.
LEIA: I don't know... but I have a bad feeling about this.
HAN: Hurry up, colonel sanders, or you're gonna be a permanent resident!
THREEPIO: I am fluent in over six million ways of crossing the road.
R2D2: beep beep be bop.
CHEWIE: Gwrrroooooaaaarrrrrrlllllll!
BEN: Cross the road, chicken. Let go, chicken. Chicken - trust me.
BOBA FETT: What if the chicken doesn't survive? He's worth a lot to me!
WEDGE: My scope shows the other side but it looks really far, are you sure you can cross it?
JERJERROD: The chicken is crossing the road? We shall double our efforts.
BIB: Die chicken wanga?
BIGGS: At that speed, will you be able to cross in time?
TARKIN: The regional governors now have direct control over their chickens. Fear will keep those chickens in line... fear of getting hit by a car!
UNCLE OWEN: I told you to forget it. You're only concern is to cross that road.
AUNT BERU: He can't stay here forever. Most of his friends have already crossed. It means so much to him.
JABBA: Bo shuda chicken!
ADMIRAL ACKBAR: All chickens - prepare to cross the road on my mark
LANDO: Why you slimy, no good, double-crossing chicken!! You got a lot of guts crossing that road, after what you pulled!
EMPEROR: Young fool. Only now, after getting hit by a car do you understand.
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What do you think Darth Vader really does in his spare time? We suggest you take a good look at the cartoon below to find out the answer to this very deep sensitive question.
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Vader's other big passtime is undertaking self improvement courses, afterall a dark lord does need to be performing at his best.
You Know You are a Star Wars Geek When.......
You pass out while trying to move a pencil across the desk with the Force.
You get into a fight, and you automatically find yourself reaching for a lightsaber...
With a blue-tinted plastic tube, a flashlight, two hours of a saturday night, and 4 rolls of blue electrical tape, you finally complete your own working "Light-saber"
You get jealous of Luke because his light saber is double the size of yours
You think you are the life of the party because you imitate Yoda's voice and have him say things a Jedi master wouldn't say.
Whenever you get in trouble, you mutter "I have a bad feeling about this."
You start to see visions of Ben Kenobi telling you to go to bed.
You can't resist to hum when you turn on a flashlight
You buy 2 copies of the trilogy just so you could have the full Darth Vader Helmet.
You finally figure out that ANH rearanged is Han
You have a tan line from your Darth Vader helment.
At the airport, when the clerk asks you if anyone else has handled your bag you say,"No, it's just me, the boy, two droids...and no questions asked.
You get stuck doing 'yoga' classes because of a misprint on the advertisement.
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And to finish off, here is a silly video about a guy making his own light sabre.
So enjoy the weekend, and let's hope we don't find ourselves being drawn to the dark side any time soon.
Today we have had a bit of fun making some Avatars on our computer. It seems the tow most popular creators out there are the Simpsons and South Park generators, and so these are the two main ones we have reviewed here.
The Simpsons creator takes you through individual selections for body shape, hair, eyes, nose, clothes, etc until we have a completed Simpsons styled character.
Then we can save, email to friend, or download our Avatar as either an Icon or a JPG file.
We had trouble the first time saving it as a Download, because pop ups were blocked, but then when we allowed pop ups, it erased our work and took us back to the start of design process.
So after we had set Internet explorer to always allow pop ups from the site, we remade our Avatar, and this time when we used the download as JPEG option it generated and then saved to our hard drive okay.
You need to be patient on this step because it may take a few minutes to generate. A 612x692 image was saved to our PC okay.
There is also a South Park avatars creator that can be used to make your own characters as well.
To get started click on "New Character" at the bottom of the screen and first pic the type of character (Male, Female, Child, etc).
The remaining steps are just like the Simpsons where we work our way through eyes, noses, hair choices, clothes, and accessories.
When we are finished we cannot save our Avatar, but we can print it out.
If we have Adobe PDF we can print it out and obtain an image with a white background, that we could then screenprint and take into Adobe Fireworks or Photoshop to save permanently.
However, if we click "Finish" rather than "Print", we can add a background image to our Avatar.
But if we now print out this picture, the background does not come out int he printout. So we would have to printscreen key the picture, and then paste it into an image editor and crop it, and then save it.
But all this site does is resize our photo to less than 200x200 pixels, so that we can use it as our image on an Internet forum. It does not actually let us build and create unique Avatars. However, this site could be handy if we want to reduce our Simpsons Avatar down in size to use as our Facebook image for example.
Finally, the following site is a neat little Flash game, where you can build your own Avatar, and then email** it to yourself or your friends. ** We could not actually get the email option to work on our PC, and saved our Avatar by doing a printscreen.
So that's the Passy World info on making your own Avatars. Why not make your own Simpsons character, or any other Avatar, and email it to us at the contact address down the right hand side of this blog page.
This week we are getting soaked in laughter. Fun that has to do with water is our treat for this week.
Let's get started with a great little three minute compilation from YouTube:
As you can see, a lot of accidents and funny things happen when people are around water.
This is especially true for the gentle relaxing pass time of water skiing. That is unless you want to do water skiing on steroids!
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Here are some skiing highlights from YouTube for your viewing pleasure.
Wet and Wild Jokes - Part 1
Q. What did the sink say to the water faucet? A. You're a real drip.
Q. Chief Running Water had two sons. What were their names? A. Hot and Cold.
Q. Is it dangerous to swim on a full stomach? A. Yes. It's much better to swim in water.
Q. When does a boat show affection ? A. When it hugs the shore.
Q. What gets wetter the more it dries? A. A Towel !
Q. Why do sharks only swim in salt water ? A. Because pepper water makes them sneeze!
Q. If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become? A. Wet !
Q. If a fire hydrant has H2O inside, what does it have on the outside? A. K9P
Here is a classic Mr Bean adventure at the local swimming pool.
There are some real donkeys driving boats around on the water these days:
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No small wonder there are so many boating accidents.
Here is an interesting boating finale unfolding before our very eyes:
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I don't think cats really like getting wet. Probably because it makes them have such a bad hair day !
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Wet and Wild Jokes - Part 2
A father sends his son to bed. Five minutes later, the boy screams, "Dad! Can you get me a glass of water?"
The dad says, "No. You had your chance."
A minute later the boy screams, "Dad! Please get me a glass of water?"
The dad says, "No. You had your chance. Next time you ask, I'll come up there and spank you."
"Dad! When you come up to spank me, can you bring me a glass or water?
Boats are not the only dangerous things at the beach that we need to be careful with. The beach can be a pretty dangerous place, so we need to be careful.
So look out for all the things that are wet and dangerous, because you never know when it might bucket down on you next!
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So hope the weather doesn't put a dampner on your weekend.
Welcome to another Friday Funny. This week the focus is on children, and all the funny things they do. We also have some funny kiddie pictures, and some very childish jokes.
So let's start "kidding" around with this little video clip from YouTube:
"Charlie Bit Me" The funniest thing about this video is that it has had over 220 million views on YouTube.
Sure it's a cute video, and demonstrates what all brothers do to each other, but is it really that funny ?
Kiddie Jokes - Part 1
Q. How did the telephones get married ? A. In a double ring ceremony !
Q. Why did the child study in the aeroplane ? A. He wanted a higher education !
Q. Why was the broom late ? A. It over swept !
Q. What kind of hair do oceans have ? A. Wavy !
Q. Why did the cowboy die with his boots on ? A. Because he didn't want to stub his toe when he kicked the bucket !
Q. What steps would you take if a madman came rushing at you with a knife ? A. Great big ones !
Q. Why is it not safe to sleep on trains ? A. Because they run over sleepers !
Q. How do you cure a headache ? A. Smash your head through a window, and the pane will just disappear !
You know baby photos are just the cutest. Here is a great three minute special compilation album from YouTube.
Here is a technically amazing video clip of the Evian Roller Blading babies.
Here are some more hilarious kids jokes.
(We're positive you'll be laughing your heads off at these ones!)
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Kiddie Jokes - Part 2
One day a boy was walking down the street when he saw a sea monster standing on the corner looking lost. The boy put a leash on the sea monster and took him to the police station. 'You should take him to the museum,' said the policeman ! The next day the policeman saw the boy in the town again with the monster on the leash. 'I thought I told you to take him to the museum,' said the policeman ! 'I did,' said the boy, 'and today I'm taking him to the cinema.'
'What were you before you came to school, boys and girls ?' asked the teacher, hoping that someone would say 'babies.' She was disappointed when all the children cried out, 'Happy'
Later that day, the same teacher was furious with her son. 'Just because you've been put in my class, there's no need to think you can take liberties. You're a pig!' The boy said nothing ! 'Well ! Do you know what a pig is ?' 'Yes, mum,' said the boy, 'the offspring of a swine.'
Simple Simon was writing a geography essay. It began like this: The people who live in Paris are called parasites....
And the people who live on earth are humans. But how did humans evolve? They say we came from monkeys. But perhaps our closest living relation isn't some kind of monkey after all. Maybe it's the Panda!
Blondes supposedly know how to have more fun. But does this look like fun?
Maybe this is how the swine flu really started!
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Little Blonde Girl Jokes
Q. Why did the blonde girl shoot the alarm clock ? A. Because she felt like killing time.
Q. Why did the blonde girl wear a wet shirt all day ? A. Because the label said, 'Wash and Wear.'
Q. Why did the blonde girl spend two weeks in a revolving door ? A. Because she was looking for the doorknob.
Q. Why did the little blonde girl pick up soap bubbles and put them to her ear ? A. Because she liked soap operas.
Q. Why did the blonde girl keep running around her bed ? A. Because she was trying to catch up with her sleep.
Q. Why did the little blonde girl put the chicken in a tub of boiling hot water ? A. Because she wanted the chicken to lay hard-boiled eggs.
Q. What did blonde Cinderella say when her photos didn't arrive? A. 'Some day my prints will come.'
Here are several parts of a series of Etrade commercials that are quite amusing.
First up we have "Etrade the baby trader".
Etrade Mobile Phone trading commercial:
Etrade the singing babies:
Etrade golfing baby. He has such a big attitude for such a little boy !
Time to lay back, and check out our final set of very childish jokes.
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Kiddie Jokes - Part 3
Q. Why did the sword swallower swallow an umbrella ? A. He wanted to put something away for a rainy day !
Q. What was the gangsters last words ? A. Who put that violin in my violin case !
Q. What lies at the bottom of the sea and shivers ? A. A nervous wreck !
Q. Why did the man take a pencil to bed ? A. So he could draw the curtains !
Q. Why did the burglar take a shower ? A. He wanted to make a clean getaway !
Q. Why do idiots eat biscuits? A. Because they're crackers !
Q. How did Noah see the animals in the Ark at night ? A. He used flood lighting !
Hopefully we won't be flooded with complaints about any child like inappropriateness in relation to this latest post.
Guess I had better go check what the kids are doing!
