2023 January-June
Enjoy it while it lasts. If you can.
Filed 6/21/23
Hover for question punchline
Filed 6/16/23
Weary the Cynical Dog
Turn Vice into Virtue by Acting Naturally
Filed in Weary the Cynical Dog 6/14/23
Talking Heads
Filed 6/9/23
Filed in Talking Heads 6/9/23
Quickies
Filed 6/7/23
Brain Tweezers (Mit Dr. Sigmund Fraud)
Filed 5/12/23
Hover to open book
Filed in The Little Read Book of Uncle Joe Squarehair 5/8/23
Add to Your Betterized Fauxcabulary
Metaphysical Abilities of Dubious Value
Transmogrifry: Ability to cook any meat so it tastes like chicken
Clairnoyance: Ability to complete other peoples sentences for them
Gobbledegookery: Ability to speak in computer jargon without understanding what you’re actually talking about
Smellaportation: Ability to stink up your own and the adjoining room with a single fart
Waffellatio: Ability to agree with any side of an argument as needed
Thermbulation: Ability to walk on water at temperatures below 32 degrees Fahrenheit
Cyclekinesis: Ability to ride a bike like riding a bike
One more addition to an almost forgotten feature:
Filed 5/3/23
Different from what I’ve lately been mostly doing on the old site. You know, jokes and would-be jokes and cartoons and the like. Instead, a link to some science stuff. A fresh take on the atom. Also different. As in different from the standard model of the atom. I could try to explain, but why bother when others have already done it better. And with video. And in a swanky English accent. Cheers:
Filed 5/1/23
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Filed 4/28/23
Hover for question punchline
Filed 4/18/23
Top Twelve Things Apathetic, Indifferent, Uninterested People Don’t Give
Just as well they don’t give because nobody would want to take any of the listed items anyway. Except maybe apathetic folks who could take it or leave it without caring one way or another. Whatever.
Filed 4/10/23
Hover on tabs for new toon panels
Filed 4/5/23
Thinking off the Rock
Is it funny? Why do I bother? I made a New Years resolution to update the old site every single day; three times a week. Not that I always keep my New Years resolutions. Come to think of it, I never do. Just wait till next year, things will be different. I won’t be more resolved, I’ll make an easier list. Promise. Right. That’s resolved then.
Filed 3/29/23
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Filed 3/24/23
Filed 3/20/23
Filed 3/13/23
Doctor Killjoke
hover on art to kill joke
Filed 3/10/22
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Filed 3/8/23
Hover to open book
Filed 3/3/23
Brain Tweezers (Mit Dr. Sigmund Fraud)
Filed 3/1/23
Betterize Your Fauxcabulary
First comes…
Feelosophy: Set of half-baked beliefs that make you feel virtuous and superior.
Justified by…
Nincomproof: Argument so incoherent and divorced from realty only the gullible and overeducated believe it
Leading to…
Wishteria: A pandemic of wishful thinking belief in a feelosophy.
Containing many a…
Psychophant: Crazed fanatical follower of a crazier fanatical leader.
Precipitating a…
Howl Movement: Working on the premise that the louder you shout it the truer it is.
Resulting in…
Kooktopia: Basically, the inmates running the asylum.
Filed 2/27/23
Hover for question punchline
Filed 2/24/23
Quickies
Filed 2/20/23
Family Friendly Fun Friday
Refiled 2/17/23
This quiz is all about words that… which… of… uh… there is no theme in this word quiz. But they are presented in alphabetical order, so there is that for what it’s worth. And there is a pretty animated pic at the top, too, as well, also, in addition, to boot. Only from terrycolon.com, the site that gives you more.
Click on text to select or change your answer. Double-click to unselect.
dastard
foible
imperator
pismire
zetetic
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(d) dastard (dăs′ tərd) Base coward; poltroon; one who performs malicious actions in a cowardly, sneaking manner.
(b) foible (foi′ bəl) 1. Weaker part of a sword blade toward the point. [2. Minor weakness or failing of character]
(a) imperator (ĭm′-pər ā-tər)
1. Absolute or supreme ruler.
2. (Imperial Rome) emperor.
3. (Republican Rome) a temporary title accorded a victorious general.
(d) pismire (pĭs′ mīr) Ant; emmet. (now go look up emmet)
(c) zetetic (zə′ tĕ-tĭk) Proceeding by inquiry.
Scoring
5 — Da ta-da da!
4 – Close but no cigar
3 – Getting colder
2 – Not even close
1 – Booby prize
0 – Prize booby
Click to close
Go to the word quiz page for the full interactive word quiz fun and excitement:
Filed 2/15/23
Quickies
Filed 2/13/23
H.L. Mencken once said, “The older I get the more I realize there is no wisdom in age.” On the other hand, there is humor in it. And you can quote me on any of the following.
Terry’s Top Seven Things to Realize when You’re Not Getting Old, You’re Already There
Below are a couple of old lists of old old jokes from old posts of old. Because old is forever.
You Know You’re Old when…
Signs You Might be Getting Old
Filed 2/8/23
Friday Funnies
Filed 2/3/23
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Filed 2/1/23
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Filed 1/30/23
Brain Tweezers (Mit Dr. Sigmund Fraud)
Filed 1/27/23
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Filed 1/23/23
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After doing none last year, this is already the second word quiz of 2023. Might be a vintage year for vocabulary tests. Vintage, a word that comes from… ah, but that would be giving it away for some future quiz. Perhaps, maybe, could be, we’ll see.
This quiz is all about words ending in -oon, for no reason other than words ending in -oon are fun. Balloon, cartoon, spittoon, macaroon. Fun and tasty, too.
Click on text to select or change your answer. Double-click to unselect.
dragoon
Walloon
poltroon
pantaloon
spadroon
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(d) dragoon (drə gōōn′) Cavalryman who fights on horseback and/or on foot.
(a) Walloon (wä′-lōōn) A member of a people of southern and southeastern Belgium and adjacent parts of France.
(d) poltroon (pōl trōōn′) Lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard; a fellow without spirit or courage; a dastard; a coward.
(b) pantaloon (păn′ tə lōōn) Commedia dell’arte character, usually a skinny old dotard wearing spectacles, slippers, and tight-fitting trousers and stockings. [Hence, pantaloons (with an S) loose-fitting usually shorter than ankle-length trousers]
(c) spadroon (spə′ drön) Light straight short sword (suitable for both cutting and thrusting)
Scoring
5 — Woo-Hoo!
4 – Oooh
3 – Oh, OK
2 – So-so
1 – Oh-oh
0 – Big fat O-fer
Click to close
Go to the word quiz page for the full interactive word quiz fun and excitement:
Filed 1/6/23
Below are seven actual questions actually put to actual tour guides as collected by Travel Industry of America. Hover each tourist in the pic and they’ll ask a stupid question in typical cartoon word balloon style.
Hover over each tourist to get the stupid questions
Filed 1/18/23
Three in One Fun
Hover the tabs to see the “punchlines.”
Filed 1/14/23
Quickies
Filed 1/11/23
Haven’t done one of these in a long while, but what the hey, let’s revisit the old dictionary pop quiz bit fun. You say you don’t find the dictionary pop quiz bit all that fun? There’s a word for people like you, though you won’t find it in the quiz, so there. Ha ha, I’ll have my fun without you.
officious
peculate
anomie
subreption
plutocrat
Go to the word quiz page for the full interactive word quiz fun and excitement:
Filed 1/6/23
Top Ten Things That Didn’t Quite Happen in 2022
Filed 1/4/23
Talking Heads
Yep. The terrycolon.com robot monster has been at work behind the scenes retweaking or whatever the old site. No human input required. No human readership needed. The virtual future is now. Deal with it.
terrycolon.com New and Improvements for 2023
That’s it. That’s it? Yep, that’s all. Which is it, it or all? All of it. Sorry I asked.
And lucky you, 364 more days of the same sort of nonsense. HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Filed 1/1/23