Texting has done a lot of good for the world – for instance, I never really have to speak to people on the phone anymore – but as anyone who spends their life writing could tell you, there’s also something that’s lost when you’re not speaking to someone face to face. Mistakes can be made. Things can be misinterpreted....
They say that time flies when you’re having fun. But the older I get the more I think it flies regardless. Every year feels shorter somehow; it’s truly a wild ride. I think maybe that’s why we get so nostalgic – we have these moments where we have to stop and just appreciate the sheer amount of time that exists between that...
If you could go back in time and tell your younger self something, what would it be? It’s a question most of us have pondered at some point. But since there don’t appear to be any time-travel mechanisms on the horizon anytime soon, would you settle for something a little more grounded? Like, say, a picture of you and your younger self...
We know you’ve seen lots of those “YOU’LL NEVER BELIEVE WHAT [CELEBRITY X] LOOKS LIKE TODAY!” posts. We promise this isn’t one of those. It’s actually a lot more interesting than that! Dutch artist Ard Gelinck runs an Instagram page with a very particular specialty: photoshopping celebrities into pictures with...
They have a saying about getting older. I wish I could share it with you but I’ve forgotten what it is. Cause I keep getting older. And you know what? I’m embracing it. I don’t need to remember everything. I don’t need to impress anyone. I don’t need to leave my house! Age is freedom as far as I’m concerned....
“For most of human history, the pun was a sign of intelligence, of wit, of insight, of wisdom,” says foreign correspondent and former Presidential speechwriter John Pollack in his book The Pun Also Rises, “Lawyers punned, judges punned in their judgements, even condemned criminals would pun on the gallows to show that ‘hey,...
Samuel Johnson, a writer so well-read and prolific that he actually created one of the first English dictionaries, hated puns. He is said to have referred to them as “The lowest form of wit.” Sort of makes you wonder what he would think of memes. Would he believe we’d hit a new low, or that we’d ascended to new heights?...
Millennials were kind of the pioneers of the internet age; our presence here is strong, and we were the first generation to truly grow up with the internet as a constant. But we’re not kids anymore; the youngest of us are graduating college, the oldest are hitting 40. All of this would be pretty unremarkable on its own, except it means...
Puns are the best/worst form of joke. On a Venn diagram, puns overlap partially, but not entirely, with the phenomenon known as Dad Jokes, which create similar consternation for their audience. They’re the kind of humor that makes you a little bit angry, but you can’t get enough of it. They’re good, but they’re terrible....
According to voters on knowyourmeme.com, the Meme of the Year for 2019 was “Me and The Boys,” that weird little panel featuring four strangely drawn 80’s cartoon villain-types who are clearly about to get into some shenanigans. What meme will win this prestigious honor in 2020? 2021? We can only look forward in wonder and...