Despite having seen a lot of different pieces of Monty Python's Flying Circus, I've never sat down and attempted to watch the whole thing, until now.

I just watched the first episode, and about 20 minutes in, I was thinking that it hadn't been funny at all up to that point. I was kind of disappointed.

But then played what is probably my favorite Monty Python skit of all, the "funniest joke in the world" skit. The basic premise is that a guy writes a joke that's so funny, anyone that reads it dies of laughter:

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Mom sent me an e-mail today, alerting me to the fact that the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile crashed into a home in Wisconsin, and suggesting I should write a post about it. She's right, it is deserving of mention all on its own, but I found it particularly funny because I just read this story the other day:

Oscar Mayer's Funeral Wish - No Wienermobile

Oscar Mayer, the grandson of the original Oscar Mayer, died just last week, and apparently requested that the Wienermobile not make an appearance because "it would be too much of a spectacle."

It looks like he was right - maybe the Wienermobile was despondent over not being welcome at the funeral?

And this is almost totally unrelated, but it falls under the same category of strange news, and I nearly fell out of my chair laughing when I heard about this on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me today:

Bride's bouquet brings down plane

Yes, you read that correctly, in Italy this week a bridal bouquet caused a plane crash.

The bride and groom had arranged for an ultralight plane to fly over the wedding and drop the bouquet. On board the plane was a passenger, whose job it was to throw the bouquet onto the crowd below - and he did, but the bouquet was promptly sucked into the engine, not unlike Canada Geese being sucked into the engines of US Airways Flight 1549, at which point the plane crashed into a youth hostel.

The pilot and all the people in the youth hostel were uninjured, but the passenger was pretty badly hurt, with broken legs and a head injury. Ouch.

Let that be a lesson for your own personal wedding plans!

This also presents a great opportunity to use my new "double facepalm" avatar.

current weather: Partly Cloudy, 65, Wind: NW 3; doesn't really feel like July - but that's fine with me

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