Graffiti seen under a bridge in Wyman Park, near Hopkins:

Quick Quiz: Does the symbol above represent:
Leah digs dollar stores. A few months ago, we visited one, and I snapped a few pictures of interesting (and cheap) products. Today, we present the first in an IT miniseries, Tales From The Dollar Store

For just a dollar, Janet Jackson could have avoided that huge Superbowl scandal of a few years back.
Not too long ago, I found a pile of digital camera pictures from some time back. Today, I'd like to juxtapose two that I took at the National Aquarium in Baltimore on or around the beginning of November, 2006.

This is a little funny, because here's an adventurous outdoorsman in a playset with a bunch of wild animals, and look: his arm's missing. O for fun. Now, look at what was directly under it:

This may be one for the "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks

Actually, those scare-quotes aren't wrong; it was a zombie band.

Bakelite is plastic. Bakelite is the original fake material. Faux-bakelite is imitation fake material. Costume jewlery is fake jewelry. Reproduction costume jewlery is fake fake jewelry. Faux-bakelite reproduction costume jewlery is fake plastic fake imitation jewlery. I think this means it's actually made of gold.
Found this in my pile of funny Google News Pictures. Little known fact: before getting into politics, Sarkozy used to do modeling for educational publications. I believe this was actually the picture from my French 1 textbook to illustrate the concept of "Zut allors!"

That or "And I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for you meddling kids and your dog.*"
*Et je m'en serais tiré si ce n'est pour l'ingérence de vous les enfants et votre chien. More or less.

How many pixels is too many? This many pixels is too many.
If you don't get today's joke, please read this, and then do not google what it's about. wikipedia
I'd totally not be TSA-Man

1. I totally read this headline as describing the strange case of creationists trying to prove that the dead body had not arisen through natural processes.
2. I don't care if you're dead, sir. We still need you to take off your shoes and provide two forms of identification.

Trivia Question: In this picture, is the president sad because (a) The public has cottoned on to the fact that Global Warming may indeed actually exist, (b) The recent school board decisions in Florida that schools don't have to teach the "scientific controversy" over evolution because there actually is no scientific controversy over it, (c) Someone just explained that "stunning" does not mean "very pretty" in this context, or (d) because he heard the name "Welch" and thought there would be delicious grape jelly?
IT 111 has been pulled for not being funny.

According to their president, Iran does not have any homosexuals. They do, however, have a sizeable population of Drag Queens, each one of them prepared to start a prissy little slap-fight with any bitch that gives them shit.
You know, it has oft been noted that the Swiss Army Knife, while incredibly handy, contains tools oriented more toward, say, a boy scout than to a soldier in the field. A number of reasons have been proposed for this, including the fact that Switzerland hasn't been to war in hundreds of years. But things could be worse:

Behold: The French army knife.
So, you may have guessed that I actually stockpile these months in advance. One side effect is that by the time I actually post them, I've had time to realize that they're less funny than I thought.
So here's a bunch from my backlog that, upon reflection, are not funny...

I was going to make a Face/Off joke here, but it seemed to be in poor taste upon reflection

And here, I was going to make a vibrator joke, but it got exponentially less funny as I thought about the fact that there were children in the picture

And this one, now that I think about it, is total pants.

Why can't political news writers write like this? Could you even imagine seeing a headline that read "(insert-political-leader-here) says that tax cuts for the rich benefit the poor too, but he's wrong"?
Update 12/12:
Leah points out that I should not be so hasty in my praise for the headline writer: Ehrenberg may be wrong, but at least he can tell an XBox 360 from a Wii
So, I looked at it95 just now (here) and realized that it wasn't especially funny. So let's just skip it and move on with our lives, shall we?

HAVING CONSULTED WITH MY COLLEAGUES AND BASED ON THE INFORMATION GATHERED FROM THE NIGERIAN CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY, I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE TO REQUEST FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE TO TRANSFER THE SUM OF 4 FOREIGN OIL WORKERS (FOUR FOREIGN OIL WORKERS ONLY) INTO YOUR ACCOUNTS. THE ABOVE SUM RESULTED FROM AN OVER-INVOICED CONTRACT, EXECUTED COMMISSIONED AND PAID FOR ABOUT FIVE YEARS (5) AGO BY A FOREIGN CONTRACTOR. THIS ACTION WAS HOWEVER INTENTIONAL AND SINCE THEN THE FUND HAS BEEN IN A SUSPENSE ACCOUNT AT THE CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA APEX BANK.