From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

Is modern science even more bewildered than religion?  Here's Charles Fort's incisive take:

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

 

Which is funnier: pipes, cigars, or cigarettes?

Clue:  This is according to a guide to drawing comics

Answer:  Cigarettes.  “Draw them with smoke swirling up from the tip, and guffaws are guaranteed.”  (The answer is in black text on the black background.  Highlight it to view.)

Citation:  Suck School of Comic Art, Suck.com, (Nov. 7, 1997)

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

Here's a poem addressed to our interactive "Follow Your Bliss Compass," by a nifty guy who goes by the name "700 miles to infinity."

Is it true, as Momus suggests, that there are "few tales which would not be improved by the addition of the phrase 'suddenly, a shot rang out'"?  Decide for yourself as we alter the opening lines of . . .

A SUITABLE BOY by Vikram Seth

"You too will marry a boy I choose," said Mrs Rupa Mehra firmly to her younger daughter.  Suddenly, a shot rang out.

Types of Keyboards

by William Keckler

You have to start with the keyboard with individual letters.  Then you graduate to the keyboard with concepts.  Later, they give you this horrifying keyboard with the concepts grouped into ethical, jurisprudential, scientific and historic categories.  You are horrified to find—to give just one example—"mass murder" and "the common good" sharing a single key.  "Progress" and "calculated limited extinctions" are also key-mates.

And they tell you that's not even your final keyboard.

Graduation still looms.  All the elders are getting excited for you.

The most horrible betrayal arrives, disguised as a graduation present.

Is it true, as Momus suggests, that there are "few tales which would not be improved by the addition of the phrase 'suddenly, a shot rang out'"?  Decide for yourself as we alter the opening lines of . . .

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST by Oscar Wilde

Morning-room in Algernon’s flat in Half-Moon Street.  The room is luxuriously and artistically furnished.  The sound of a piano is heard in the adjoining room.  Suddenly, a shot rings out.

WANING GIBBOUS (PROGRESSIVE)

"You who punctuate night's fleeting hours."

—Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy (2001)

 

What is funnier than the whole world?

Clue: This is according to English novelist John Strange Winter (pseudonym of Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard)

Answer: "The whole world is funny, but that part of it that calls itself dramatic is funnier than all the rest put together!" (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)

Citation: John Strange Winter, Heart and Sword, 1898, p. 99

Which is funnier: a crooked line or a straight line?

Clue:  This is according to a guide to drawing comics

Answer:  A crooked line.  (The answer is in black text on the black background.  Highlight it to view.)

Citation:  Suck School of Comic Art, Suck.com, (Nov. 7, 1997)