Now Kids, NO Funny Stuff!

Amazing Web Pages

We used to have some links for really useless web pages. Most of those links died over time. Well, now we have help: The Useless Web.

Web Page Design

We considered using BudUglyDesign web pages as a model (website no longer working). For a while, anyway. Regardless, we saved a lot of trouble and found some of the very worse websites, ever to study.

Dilbert!

Here is Dilbert's Home Page

Dr. Fun!

Great Cartoons! (Sadly Gone, but the archives are still there to enjoy.)

Pogo

We have met the enemy and they is us! [Pogo]

Screwball Comics

I grew up reading Smokey Stover in the Sunday comics. Besides lots of "foo", a famous catchphrase from Smokey was "notary sojac".

This brings up a whole world of screwball, slightly-outside-reality, comic strips. These folks inspired such icons as Mad Magazine, R. Crumb, and many later strips up to today.

Anyone remember "nov shmoz kapop"?

More About Smokey Stover

Here is a website (Konkykru) that displays cartoons from the early days of printing and newspapers. Some of these artists were pretty screwball, too.

Bill Tidy

My absolutely favorite cartoonist. Here is some information about Bill Tidy. I was a "student" subscriber to Punch in the 1960's and immediately fell for Bill's sense of humor. His autobiography is out of print, but look on eBay for used copies. It is a wonderful story. (Bill passed away in 2023, much missed.)

I've keep a few paper copies of the magazine, just for these cartoons:

One of Many Bill Tidy: Titanic Cartoons, and Bill Tidy: Morris Dancers, and my personal favorite Bill Tidy cartoon.

(Not a Bill Tidy cartoon, but a classic Punch magazine item: Hippies vs Police).

Then there is Tidy's magnum opus: The Fosdyke Saga.

Popular Comics

Mallard Fillmore

Comics Kingdom (lots of comics, etc)

Lots of Popular Comics from the newspaper.

More Popular Comics

KatzenJammer Kids (and many others, old and new)

"The Truth is Stranger Than Fiction" Web Pages

Improbable Research, real research by real researchers on bizarre matters. Awards the Ig Nobel Prizes annually.

More horrifying than hairspray! More damaging to the environment than SUVs! The name of this nefarious pollutant source? Cows!

Even more dangerous than cows, this destructive and dangerous chemical is hardly regulated at all! It must be stopped now!

This is True, real stories about real people. (The Cassingham's are now living full-time on a cruise ship, but still making videos and working on the website.)

News of the Weird

Fark.com

A man...A suit...A grizzly bear; Who Will Triumph?

Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus!

Time-Wasters

Time-Wasting Websites (they did it for me, so I didn't have to surf the web endlessly...)

More Time-Wasters (thanks again...)

10 Top Lists of Lists

Not so much a time-waster (unless you want to do it), but interesting content throughout, some of which is amusing. Try: Neal Fun.

I DARE you to try the I am not a robot test!