The Funny Picture Thread

[knapplc]

From personal experience I can tell you that this graph is completely, utterly true.

[josebach]

From personal experience I can tell you that this graph is completely, utterly true.

I used to drink coffee all day long, but now I stop after the first pot. I usually drink about 8-10 (8 oz) cups of coffee a day during the week and none at all on the weekend. As soon as I start needing coffee 7 days a week, I'm cutting waaaaay back.

[Omaha Red Sox]

[joelamosobadiah]

lol, that is funny.

[Omaha Red Sox]

From personal experience I can tell you that this graph is completely, utterly true.

I used to drink coffee all day long, but now I stop after the first pot. I usually drink about 8-10 (8 oz) cups of coffee a day during the week and none at all on the weekend. As soon as I start needing coffee 7 days a week, I'm cutting waaaaay back.

Your doctor will tell you that's too much.

[stomperrob]

The perfect chair for baseball fans:




An oldie, but a goodie:




Who said soccer isn't dangerous???


Sign spotted in a church:

[niblet]

I don't know why, but this made me laugh more than I've ever laughed before. It isn't even that funny. Just childish humor, which is probably why it's funny.

[SeaWolf]

I don't know why, but this made me laugh more than I've ever laughed before. It isn't even that funny. Just childish humor, which is probably why it's funny.

I don't know man. Should we be posting pics with that word on it?

[niblet]

I don't know why, but this made me laugh more than I've ever laughed before. It isn't even that funny. Just childish humor, which is probably why it's funny.

I don't know man. Should we be posting pics with that word on it?

That's the whole point. It's only the word dick. People have been named that. It's just when it's used in that context, and it seems so weird that it's a food. You know those times things are so not funny that they become funny? This is one.

[stomperrob]

I don't know why, but this made me laugh more than I've ever laughed before. It isn't even that funny. Just childish humor, which is probably why it's funny.

I don't know man. Should we be posting pics with that word on it?

That's the whole point. It's only the word dick. People have been named that. It's just when it's used in that context, and it seems so weird that it's a food. You know those times things are so not funny that they become funny? This is one.

The Oxford Companion to Food comments that, strictly speaking, "spotted dick" is made by taking a flat sheet, spreading sugar and raisins on it, then rolling it up. A similar dessert is "spotted dog," a plain cylinder of suet paste with the raisins and currants and sugar stuck into it, so that the spots are visible on the outside. Both spotted dick and spotted dog were traditionally boiled (or even steamed) in a cloth, but nowadays they are usually baked.
The dessert is slightly different in Ireland. In Ireland in the late 1800s, the tradition of yeast-bread manufacture was not strong, so most breads were raised with bicarbonate of soda and an acid, rather than with yeast, and thus called soda breads. Thus, the spotted dick in Ireland is sweet soda bread, with sugar, currants, and raisins, and it's also called the spotted dog or railway cake.