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The LaughWEB has an interactive component to it, since 15th October last year. After going through their jokes, you can rate the jokes. The ratings range from 0 (No humor value whatsoever!) to 9 (I don't know how I'll get the stain off my chair (funny)). These ratings are used to sort the jokes - the jokes are sorted alphabetically and by scores. The current "Laugh of the Month" is Microsoft / Windows 95 Humor. Take your pick from parodies, insults, and Gross and Disgusting Jokes. You can also go in for humour on education, media, computers, business, or politics (not that we need any political humour - don't we have enough in our daily newspapers ?) The LaughWEB also has a facility through which you can add your own jokes too. With jokes that poke fun at everything and everyone, these guys have a disclaimer at the very beginning. This funny disclaimer though does not cover a host of events including incorrect line voltage, hurricane, lightning, tornado, tsunami, volcanic eruption, earthquake, flood, other Acts of God and a host of other hilariously put-together conditions. Even after that, if you still want to subscribe to the LOTD, send an e-mail to [email protected]. In the body of the message type "subscribe lotd" (without quotes), and be prepared to sew up when you split your sides laughing at the stuff you get. Incidentally, Jascha, the guy who created and maintains LaughWEB is a 17 year old high school student in Brookline. He works part-time for a local Internet Service Provider, and started the LaughWEB about a year ago with a few pieces of humour which has gone up to 600 items now.
In case you are missing out on our typically Indian sense of humour, don't worry - there are places that make you feel at home. Diganta's World is one such site. At this site there's a whole section dedicated to Indian humour - jokes about Hindi movies, Indian engineers, and ABCD's (American Born Confused Desis). There's a funny guide for travelling on Indian roads - including the body language used, and a funny look at the classified love ads of the gods (starring Arjun and Ram). There's also a handbook about Desi Romeos, and the inevitable Sardarji jokes.
Humour on the Web is not restricted to sites on the Internet. Jokes are more widely found floating on the Internet in the form of E-mails. One of the favourite past times of people on the Net is sending funny e-mails and jokes to their friends, who forward these jokes to their friends in turn. For instance, when a pal of mine recently went to the US for his MS, the first mail he received was from a group of Indian students in his university, welcoming him, and preparing him for his stay there with snappy, funny, and zany replies to FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) by the Americans. Here are a couple :
Q. I saw on TV that people there walk on burning coals. Why do they do that?
A. We don't have shoes. So we burn the botton of our feet to make it hard so that we can walk.
Q. Are you a Hindi?
A. Yes. I am spoken everyday in Northern India.
Q. What does that red dot on women's forehead mean?
A. Well, in ancient times, Indian men used to practice archery skills by target practicing by aiming at their wife's red dot. In fact, that is one of the reasons why they had many wives. You see, once they mastered the art of archery and hit the target....
Now, anytime you need a laugh, you know where to go....