Danny Yee

Humour

Collected Funny Stuff

I didn't write any of this, these are just items that have come my way over the years which I thought worth keeping. See also my crazy ideas collection.

Students and Teachers

Lord of the Rings: an Allegory of the Phd
Picking the Right Supervisor (a fable)
The Joys of Teaching
Why God Never Received Tenure
History in Student Bloopers

Literature and Politics

L'Isle de Gilligan
a parody of postmodernism
Little Red Riding Hood ("PC" version)
Fox in Socks Comes Back (external)

Censorship

See my anti-censorship humour page.

Religion

The Theology of STOP Signs
The Existence of System Administrators (external)
Theological Engineering Exam

Computing

I would like to be present everywhere
I have eaten all I have
Shaney meets Serdar Argic
Is Windows a Virus?
One OS to Rule them All

Science

"On the Tendencies of Motion"
Fermat's Last Theorem Proven
The Psychiatric Hotline

Links

angry drivers run Britain - Daily Mash
"Labour is passionately committed to a cleaner, greener world. It's a controversial view, but we believe children shouldn't get crippling respiratory diseases, unless reducing traffic mildly inconveniences drivers doing their shopping."
man announce he will quit drinking by 2050 - Shovel
"Our Faculty Success Initiative Redefines Everything You Thought You Knew About 'Faculty' and 'Success'" - McSweeneys
in 2019, the US birth rate was over 0.55 Miles per hour - @lunasorcery
GOTO implemented in python! - GitHub
"'All right,' said the Gruffalo, bursting with laughter. 'You go ahead and I'll follow two metres after.'" - Guardian

(For more links, see my blog Pathologically Polymathic.)

Books

See the humour section of my book reviews.

Danny Yee