OUR DAILY SURPRISE LINK
Alrightie, Voyeurwebbers, it's Video Day again at the Surprise Link department, and the department mutants have come up with a fascinating video from the Remote-Controlled Airship Regatta, held in Friedrichshafen, Germany, where the "air fish" will blow you ... er ... away, hehehe! This is one beautiful flying fish, take my word for it. Better yet, just take off all your clothes (you're gonna want to feel totally free for this, hehehe!), and if any others are viewing this with you then they, too, must remove all their clothing. Ready? Go ahead then, Click Here
BAD HUMOR
New Zealand Race Horses
Why do New Zealand race horses run so fast?
a. Superior breeding.
b. Superior training.
c. Superior breeding and training.
d. They have seen what happens to the sheep ...
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No Nudity Ban In Seattle Parks
SEATTLE, Washington -- There's a good chance, Voyeurwebbers, that more people will be moving to Seattle in the near future, and for one of the best reasons - they can now get nekkid in public ... well, in certain public parks, that is.
The Parks and Recreation board in Seattle, Washington, has decided the city is large enough and diverse enough to include those who like to bare it all in public.
Parks commissioners dropped an effort to have those who go nude in the parks charged with criminal trespass. They even said they will ask officials to consider making one of the public beaches clothing optional.
A large crowd attended the board's meeting late last week, most of them, apparently, opposed criminalizing nudity, according to a board spokeswoman.
The plan was introduced after police received complaints about the World Naked Bike Ride July 12. The event, publicizing dependency on oil, began in Gas Works Park, where the riders stripped to the buff and painted their bodies before taking off on a ride through the city.
Dewey Potter, the parks spokeswoman, said Seattle has no laws governing public undress. Washington state bans public nudity only if it offends someone or is considered a hazard.
-- Okie, everyone, sing along with me: "My kind of town, Seattle is, my kind of town...", hehehe! And I don't see as I really have any other choice, Voyeurwebbers, than to name the Seattle Board Of Parks and Recreation as VW's official "Heroes and Heroines of the Moment", for combining both common sense and uncommon wisdom in reaching its history-making decision on the matter of nekkid people in the park. Nice going, all! Hehehe! -- Igor
EYE ON: Old Jokes by K.
Remember the BBC t.v. hit comedy series "Monty Python's Flying Circus", Voyeurwebbers? And remember the infamous "Dead Parrot" sketch? The first time Eye saw that sketch, Eye laughed so hard Eye thought my pants would never dry.
And, being a somewhat callow young man, Eye thought the Monty Python troupe were just about the funniest, cleverest and most original gaggle of warped comedic geniuses on the planet.
Well, two out of three isn't bad, I guess; but Eye will have to delete the term "original" from that short litany of praise. Why? Because Eye was shocked -- nay, stunned -- to find out that the infamous and beloved "Dead Parrot" sketch was merely an adaptation of an older joke.
The original joke was used by a pair of Greek comedians named Hierocles and Philagrius. If you've never heard of them, Voyeurwebbers, it's most likely because the duo told the original joke some 1,600 years ago in Ancient Greece, at least according to an ancient collection of jokes titled "Philogelos", which translates to "The Lover of Laughter".
In the fourth-century version, a man goes up to a slave trader and moans: "The slave you sold me died."
Under the law at that time, he was entitled to damages.
The trader replies: "Did he? By the gods, when he was with me he never did such a thing!"
In the Monty Python version, an irate customer returns to a pet shop to complain about a "deceased" parrot he bought from the owner.
So, the truth is out at last. And we have U.S. classics professor William Berg to thank for translating "Philogelos" into modern English, thereby providing us with the oldest versions known to humankind of 260 of the oldest jokes known to humankind -- including the, literally, age-old favorite: "A man walks into a bar ... ".
They say the Truth will set you free, Voyeurwebbers, and so it does because, for the rest of the day, I am outta here! K.
Eye hastens to point out that any opinions expressed in this column are entirely his own and are neither those of Voyeurweb nor its management. K. |
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