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Tag Archives: jokes
History through humour
Sure, in the grand scheme of things they’re just a bunch of jokes. Once you delve deeper into the annals of these shitty old jokes you will discover that many of them ain’t funny no more. This was the time before smartphones, iPods and near-universal broadband internet access, and before everyone and their cat was on Facebook and/or Twitter. As a result, there’s some historical relevance in them thar jokes. Continue reading
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Tagged collections, fun, internet culture, jokes, personal, wasted youth
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Rufus + Google + Monsters = August, part 1
South Africa’s troubles and unique social peculiarities have apparently reached a regular audience far beyond the country’s borders. SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) can be quite the science! Continue reading
First Anniversary
Today, the first anniversary of this blog also marks the last batch of jokes and similar funnies that were collected during the last few years. Continue reading
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Tagged anniversary, gatvol, jokes, personal
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Ghosts from the address book
As another phase of the downscaling process and reshuffling of online interests, today some 570 email messages — containing all the jokes and virals that were carefully collected, assembled and sent out to a hand-clicked audience between December 2000 and December 2006 — got archived and trashed. Continue reading
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Tagged internet culture, jokes, names, people, personal
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The ridding of treasures from years gone by
On a more humorous note, some of the more entertaining items that have arrived in my in-boxes over the last few months have been honoured with a permanent display on the site. Next up is getting rid of a few more old VHS cassettes, and then we’ll be tackling the good old audio cassette format, too. Continue reading
Why a blog?
While the main function of the original site was to collect and showcase the various jokes and virals one receives via email or stumbles upon otherwise and did form the main brunt of the content, this new layout allows us to categorise and compile the numerous personal projects and silly ideas we’ve had over the years. And a blog lends itself beautifully to this purpose. Continue reading
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Herewith the latest changes: Some German-language jokes have been gotten rid of. Dubya remains president of the USA. Nobody has delivered Osama’s head yet. Continue reading
hmvh.de.vu News
Can you guess what the next theme is? Is anybody actually reading this? Is there anybody out there? Continue reading
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