Tag: humour

The BOFH who works at Hogwarts

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Ah yes, running IT Support at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where the pupils love their wands but still want their smartphones. Which means someone needs to run IT, and that someone has a Tumblr: When I was first starting out in this position I had easily become the target of many pranks from the students. Did you know there is a freaking spell that glues your feet to the ground? I know. It took all of 2 days for them to quickly realize I literally have a switch that shuts off all the wifi access to the entire school. I

The secrets behind the greatest daytime TV show

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I’m not sure if Low Culture’s detailed look at ‘Homes Under The Hammer‘ is genuine, a tongue in cheek pastiche of geek-chic fandom, a disgruntled writer given the worst SEO assignment in the world, or a mix of all three. I’m sure that it’s a fabulously inventive piece of writing: Ridiculously, it’s unlikely that any of Hammer will ever get a DVD release. I know, right? Luckily, this does have a bright side – it means the show is covered by a blanket licence agreement for music, and they can play pretty much anything they like, so the researchers like

TBBT: It’s not laughing with the nerds, it’s laughing at the nerds

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Shouting into the Void: If you watch, really watch an episode of The Big Bang Theory and pay attention to when the audience laughs it soon becomes clear that what they’re laughing at. What Chuck Lorre wants us to find funny is not the jokes which the characters are making, it’s the characters themselves. At one point Howard mentions playing Dungeons and Dragons. There is no joke attached to this, it’s not the punchline to any set up, however it is treated as one. Howard says the words “Dungeons and Dragons” and the audience laughs. They’re not laughing at a