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“Someone who actually makes you smile or laugh? “

Intentionally?

Intentionally?

Yes. And that narrows it down quite a bit.

Intentionally?

Well, let’s not set the bar too high at first.

Is this this post not a blatant set-up for the entire readership to say “Wardytron”?

Pootergeek was funny too, but haven’t seen him post here for yonks.

Going back further, Effra.

Wardytron. Who is he? He is some kind of super hero. I am pretty sure he flies.

Me. I’m the funniest.

Only joking.

Thanks for reminding me of wardytron (who really should comment here more often). I think we have a winner.

Yes – wardytron.

Nah, you’re all miserable sods…..

Wardyron is more Armstrong & Miller esque. Is that funny? Certainly more funnier than tired old Fry-esque liberal smugness.

I vote for Morgoth, JuliaM, and Old Peculier (in that order)

Graham is v. funny though I do not think it is intentional…

I vote for Morgoth, and Monty’s dry Northern humour comes a close second.

Dave Dudley. What? Um, forget it…

Am I the only one getting infuriating full-screen pop-up ads whenever I visit HP?

Ven, you’re a darling. Not in a gay way. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. My vote goes to one of the first comments I ever read at Harry’s Place, years ago during an earnest discussion about George Orwell. Someone or other wrote “Orwell would have liked Busted.”

Why did the leprachaun wear two condoms? To be sure, to be sure.
Vote for me.

Martin Miller was good as well. Sadly he no longer reads Harry’s Place.

He guy who posts as ‘Lee John Barnes’.

He’s hilarious, though I doubt the BNP’s real ‘legal advisor’ would post anything that demented.

He’s hilarious, though I doubt the BNP’s real ‘legal advisor’ would post anything that demented.

Or anything that full of spelling mistakes. Can you really get a law degtee without being able to spell? Or don’t you need a law degree to be a “legal advisor”?

Anyway, I suspect his spelling mistakes are intentional, a kind of anti-elitist, blokish camouflage.

“Am I the only one getting infuriating full-screen pop-up ads whenever I visit HP?”

Yes, your computer is probably infected with spyware.

Damn! I thought you’d have covered Obama telling Fox News they couldn’t be in the media group interviewing the Pay Czar and all the other news media walking out until they changed their mind http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/23/white-house-loses-bid-exclude-fox-news-pay-czar-interview/

Now THAT is funny!

Administration obviously contributing to its laughing-stock status. Wouldn’t say it was honing its humour (humor) though.

My vote goes to Wardytron too. Also, I used to enjoy reading Nearly Oxfordian’s posts, I think that kind of sarky sneering appeals to my undergraduate mind. I never found out what it was that he got banned for.

Nearly Oxfordian was brilliant. I once posted a comment under his name in which I called Chris Morris a “screeching unhinged ranting Stalinist” and described Dad’s Army – Dad’s Army, for god’s sake – as “genocidal filth”, and people still weren’t sure if it was a spoof or not.

Got to be Morgoth for me. I just imagine the absolute OUTRAGE on the faces of those theists as aren’t hardened to him yet, and sit here giggling drunkenly to myself. Wardy is good, mind.

There was an old racist here, name of Phillips I think, who had a fine turn of phrase.

I can’t converse with anyone from the SPGB without bursting into an absolutely uncontrollable fir of giggles.

Descartes walks into a bar.

The bartender walks up to him and says, “Would you care for a drink?”

Descartes replied, “I think not.” and disappears in a puff of logic.

Life’s a beech but yew’ll be sorry for picking on typos come the revolution.

A fir of giggles, eh? Does that come after “Number One, the Larch”?

No Joe Camel, a fir of gigles comes after “the Naughty Bits of Margaret Thatcher”.

Graham, good one about Descartes.

I am also a fan of Nearly Oxfordian. I’m sure he’s really here but keeping a bit low profile. I seem to remember he had a way of going for the jugular with a great brand of sarcasm.

She, my dear fellows, NO is a she.

‘Kvetching Time’ isn’t bad. But no more please, or it could be pundemonium.

Morgoth, are you sure? She fooled me, then, and a number of others as well, apparently.

Speaking about funny. Here is the story about the Northwest Airlines flight that flew passed its destination of Minneapolis, Minnesota by 150 miles and was over Wisconsin before the flight crew knew anything was wrong. “Airliner overshoots Airport” at http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/10/23/airliner.fly.by/index.html

Hat tip to Snoopy the Goon of the Elders at Simply Jews.

David All, what a story. It reminds me of this:

“Hello, Northwest flight 188? Your height and position, please?”

“Hello Minneapolis, sure. Height, five foot eleven. Position, seated.”

Joe Camel, That is a good one. Am sure that Northwest Flight 188 will be a steady source of humor for quite a while.

This is not the first gigantic cluster f–k up by a Northwest Flight crew. About a decade or so back they had a flight where the pilot and co-pilot were drunk. Fortunately that one also got down safely.

P.S. I’d also go for Mrs Trellis (being funny)

My vote is for mestizo. Dry as the Texas air.

Who’s mestizo?

Wardytron, clearly!

Someone or other wrote “Orwell would have liked Busted.”

Yeah, but this thread’s All About You!

I always enjoyed reading Benji’s posts. What has happened to him?
Re Nearly Oxfordian, I found him obnoxious, not funny and

Brownie is clearly the wittiest contributor, not just to HP but commenting anywhere in the blogosphere.

Also, I hear he’s hung like a bear.

Yes. wardy’s the star. You can’t go wrong with a Wodehouse/Waugh/Amis man. KB Player’s pretty good too.

Nearly Oxfordian was quite obnoxious and not very amusing. He (she, Morgoth, really? I am not convinced!) was rather strung out and high pitched.

You can’t go wrong with a Wodehouse/Waugh/Amis man.

You probably can’t but in fact I’ve never been able to get Waugh. I bought Decline and Fall once and got about as far with it as I did with London Fields by the lesser Amis, ie about 5 pages. Have you read any of Auberon’s diaries? I was reading a few extracts the other night while Question Time was on. They seemed quite entertaining, unlike Question Time.

Nearly Oxfordian was a dull, shrieking nutjob.

If you want some good Waugh – or, if I may be permitted a little *snigger snigger* verbal confection of my *snork* own, a “just Waugh” *mpuff mpuff* – try ‘Black Mischief’. It had me doing actual LOLs and ROFLs all over the place.

Muggs:

“It had me doing actual LOLs and ROFLs all over the place.”

You can get it cleaned up before I rub yer nose in it.

But what I always *hneep hneep* what I always *hhmmff! say is *!* Waugh, what is he good for? *Sk!* Say it again.

Wardy, never tried Vile Bodies? Nor The Loved One?

Andy Kaufman.

Wardy’s very funny and smells quite nice (you just have to watch what you say about PG Wodehouse in his presence.)

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Maybe it’s my undeveloped North American sense of humor, but I’ve never even noticed Wardytron’s posts as being funny (sorry, i’ll look at them more closely from now on.) As for Morgoth, yes he’s funny, but it hardly seems intentional.

My pick is Monty, as represented by this brilliant putdown of Richard Farnos on the issue of public exposure:
“Farnos, we all have a right to go to the lavvy, without being propositioned for sex. So yes, cottaging should continue to be an offence. And in response to your other question, I don’t think bus passengers should be confronted with your knob. This is because they are not there to be exploited for your vicarious sexual pleasure.
Stop pretending to be oppressed because you can’t wave your willy at the Catholic Womens League.”

Thought Will had found a photo of NO, defo not a lady.

Funny thoughtful – Metta

Funny Ha ha – has to be Lindsey. People, it’s has to be a huge piece of satire, it has to be.

Yes. Lindsay is truly the funniest man who comments here.

I am shocked that not a single one of you has voted for ME!

I thought my EDL as a football team was a brilliant parody (playing for the Shariah Cup at the Emirates Stadium). I think people are too reticent to blow their own trumpets these days. I can genuinely do a schizophrenic disassociation from myself and view my various personnas as separate from my soul. I am a multi-task super computer with virtual machines. I’m great at comedic parody!

My mummy…… Oops!!!

Th thing about that CookieCutter fellow is that he just tries too hard. What happened to him anyway? I never see him around these days…

Cookie cuter … not quite the full biscuit.

I find quite a lot of wit and humour generally on HP. One reason why I’m still here.

On the chat groups which I tried years ago there was something that was not humour but a stream of silly-speak. I once tried to find people who were interested in my subjects, music, poetry and so on and got nothing but silly-speak and sexual advances. In desperation I tried Philosophy and ended up with a Texan hunk who thought there was a woman behind Felix. What could have given him that impression??

Old Peculiar’s repartee and sharp intelligent punning (in her case, not an oxymoron).

Thanks to all for so many brilliant and funny comments over the years.

Graham is just excellent.

M-o-r-g-o-t-h

SPGBGrey, unintentional, but in a nice way, and Red Deathy also

And Gert’s daughter or Mum. And OP.

And Wardy, eg: 8.29 post above.

But, for playing his own straight man and all supporting roles, David Lindsey, now blogging for the telegraph.

Wardy is funny, though I have seen him repeat the same joke twice, identical wording and everything. Sorry you still can’t find anyone else to read in your humour quest Wardy – have you tried any Americans like Thurber or Perelman?

Oi, I’m recycling. I don’t want my jokes going into landfill. Anyway, consider yourself lucky you don’t actually know me, you’d have heard the same jokes with the same wording at least fifteen times by now.

I’ll have a look at the Thurber & Perelman entries in the Oxford Book of Humorous Prose, although my favourite thing in there so far is Auberon Waugh’s diary, from when Private Eye was funny.

OP, despite the obvious political differences could be very funny back when she seemed to have the time to comment here regularly.

Hopefully when she has finished her conversion to Islam she will be back quipping again.

from when Private Eye was funny.

I’m old enough to remember that period, too. When Richard Ingrams launched The Oldie I thought that was going to be funny, but it isn’t.

An Oxford Book of Humorous Prose has a distinctly unfunny air. The best jokes, like the best romantic gestures, take you by surprise. The OBOHP sounds like the dutiful delivery of a bunch of flowers on Valentine’s Day.

On HP, the joke that made me laugh most was one by MarkT. Someone was calling David T “shifty” and MarkT’s description of David T with eyes moving from side to side still makes me chuckle when I think of it. But I suppose you had to be there.

Monty.

Wardy is to repeating jokes what David Lindsay is to cutting-and-pasting lengthy screeds.

But it’s alright. One has to make allowances. Maybe they could go on tour together?

Funny Peculier or funny ha-ha?

Definitely Monty and OP.

Occasionally Morgoth (and why all the dashes in the name now?)

OP. Funny, ha ha – including your latest post.

“Richard Richard” Goldstone, indeed.

Maybe they could go on tour together?

Well I was invited, when I was writing the Patrick Michael Dawn blog, to stand as a candidate for the British People’s Alliance. I was quite tempted as well, since one of the constituencies David offered me was Wimbledon, where my sister lived at the time. I could have knocked on her door, perhaps in a false moustache, and said “Good afternoon madam, my name is PM Dawn…”

Occasionally Morgoth (and why all the dashes in the name now?)

Why not?

Occasionally Morgoth (and why all the dashes in the name now?)

Why not?

A change is as good as a rest.

It is 1938 and I am C-h-u-r-c-h-i-l-l.

Ohhh yesss.

why all the dashes in the name now?

Morgoth has always been dashing.

It is 1938 and I am C-h-u-r-c-h-i-l-l.

There you go, bringing class into it again.

I know. But I have avoided mentioning beachballs.

OK for those who know South Afirca….you know your flying South African Airways when you ask for the ‘black pepper’ and the hostie brings you The Sowetan!