Friday, a reporter from the Canadian National Post detailed the history of how the whoopee cushion accidentally came to be. Until recently it was assumed that Americans had invented the greatest farting gag.
[JEM Rubber Co.] produced parts for printing companies. In the late 1920s, it moulded an inflatable bag that farted. Possibly it was […]

According to a recent study published Friday, the 2008 laughing index has jumped 4% in the last 12 months, which is not good news for the already weakened dollar. The index, a cumulative measure of 16 humor indicators tracks, among other things:
The cost of a single issue of Mad magazine
The wholesale prices of rubber […]

According to a press release from comscore, young people aged 18-34 are more likely to read headlines than those aged 65 and older, and get most of their news online vs. traditional newspapers.

This is a pretty funny post from glamour.com:
The other day my son found fart spray on the shelf of a newsstand we frequent. He insisted on “sampling” it. The spritz hit my younger son’s jacket, and we had to smell it all day long. Of course, my older son thought the spray was awesome…
Note […]

Last night a security guard was robbed at the San Diego Zoo. No one was injured.
According to SignOnSanDiego.com:

The robber was described as a white or Latino man in his early 20s, about 5-foot-9 and 170 pounds, wearing jeans, a black Afro wig and Groucho Marx costume glasses and nose, the sergeant said.
More from a […]

Because the truck they were in crashed in Glasgow, Scottland.

If you have read or watched any news over the last week or so, surely you have heard about the ways in which troops are using silly string to detect booby traps in Iraq.
Before entering a building, troops squirt the plastic goo, which can shoot strands about 10 to 12 feet, across the room. If […]