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[Caught in the Net] Funny Business

As longtime readers know, each Caught in the Net column is painstakingly assembled around some particular sexual theme, some image or idea or set of at-least-vaguely-related subjects I’ve found emerging from the online sexual zeitgeist and captured here for your amusement and perusal. I have a dizzying array of folders and sub-folders where I keep bookmarks organized . . . and one of them is just called “Funny.” Here’s some of the stuff I’ve found funny over the past few months. It may be a meager thread of connection, and the humor ranges wildly from lowbrow to high, but it’s a hot day and it’s going to be a long week and we could probably all use a laugh.

The phrase “[x] does it [y]” is a staple of bumper sticker and t-shirt humor (you know, like “Farmers do in the dirt,” “Seismologists make the earth move,” etc.), and there’s a mind-bogglingly vast alphabetized collection of such phrases at They Do It With . . ., including just about every imaginable occupation or hobby. Some are funny, some are ludicrous, and there’s probably one that describes you . . . For me there’s “Writers have novel ways.” Why, yes. Yes we do.

Another entrant in the “funny list” category is “The Internet Is Like a Penis”. For instance, “It can be up or down. It’s more fun when it’s up, but it makes it hard to get any real work done.” You get the idea.

My affection for online stick-figure comic xkcd is probably obvious by now, and there was recently a hilarious installment about the dangers of improvised bondage while camping. (If you hover your mouse over the image you can see the doleful alt-text, too: “Friggin’ modern tents don’t have a single piece of rope.”)

Do you love candy? Sweet sweet candy? How about gummi lighthouses . . . which happen to look exactly like penises? I can only assume the manufacturer is wondering why a candy that should only appeal to lonely lighthouse keepers is suddenly being purchased in vast quantities by women throwing bachelorette parties, but I’m sure they’re happy to have the sales.

If that’s not enough potty humor for you, here’s some literal potty humor (no, not about poop or pee, but about a bathroom). A (all female) interior design firm did a very striking mural in a men’s room. Pissing there would probably make me a tad self-conscious, but I know guys who’d appreciate the simulated attention . . .

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