Posts Tagged ‘humor’

Finding the Funny – The Oatmeal

The Internet is a big and scary place.  Zombie’s, viruses, and naked people prowl it’s streets.  Fortunately there are sites like “The Oatmeal” which help to mitigate the otherwise frightening and not-funny wilderness.  Well, maybe not so much a wilderness as an endless series of tubes. 

First up on his hilarity.  “How everything goes to hell during a Zombie Apocolypse”.  It pretty much covers all the bases.  Including crazy scientists “I know, lets mix rabies with this old meatloaf and feed it to this gorilla!”, the right thing to do when confronted with a zombie (shoot the head and not the chest, head shots are the very best). 

Next he illuminates us on the subject of coffee.  He gives us “15 Things Worth Knowing About Coffee”.  Personally, the only thing I need to know about coffee is that it’s delicious.  Well, that and to stay away from the Pike’s Place roast from Starbucks.  Back to the funny though.  By far the most amusing this about it (and almost all of the other comics on this site) are the illustrations.  I don’t know if it’s the lack of pupils on the characters or what, but I find it highly humorous.  (Closely related to “15 Things Worth Knowing About Coffee” is “The 5 Phases of Caffiene Intake”.) 

“17 Things Worth Knowing About your Cat” is another informative poster, this time about kitties (cats are not amused by cupcakes… really? comeon.. I’m sure they’ll at least try and bat it around or something… mine would). 

There are also several comics on the proper use of various punctuation marks.  The noble apostrophe, the odd semi-colon are covered.  I don’t know about you, but I have never really learned how to use those things.  I know they’re on my keyboard for some reason, but I’m only 50% sure when I should apply them. 

The layout of the site makes it rather simple to find a comic… either click on one of the rectangles with a tagline in it, or click on “Comic” at the top… can’t get simpler than that.  (If my crappy Clear Internet service were any better I would be able to find more examples).  There are also some amusing quizzes to take, from How many hungry weasels could your body feed? (how did he fact check this?)to How long could you survive won the surface of the sun? (I’m pretty sure the answer is zero… I’m thinkin you’d burn up well before you got anywhere near that ball of fire), to How addicted to Facebook are you? (not very… I only sign on 10 times a day). 

This is definitely a comic site you should check out.  Lots of variety and funny visuals paired with somewhat useful and amusing information.  Plus, it looks like there’s a book deal coming up soon, so you can even read when the intertubes are full of bets and pornography.