Friday funnies

Do you know that if you cut a horse in half and bang the two halves together it sounds like someone riding a coconut!

That sounds about right!

Actually it's kinda funny.

Watch Sagitarian's video first then come back here since i am going to step on the joke big time.

The coconut/horse thing is a reference (for the most part) to the movie that Sagitarian quoted (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) but the sequence in the movie was, itself, a reference to old radio dramas (particularly westerns) where the Foley guy would clop, clop, clop with pieces of coconut shells to produce a sound like a horse's hooves.

There, the Joke has been explained to death and I have shown you how to make a sound like a horse's a55.

Here's a real spoiler for you zen koan fans: The sound of one hand clapping is snapping the fingers of one hand.

And to think how many hours of intense meditation it took to solve that . . . Q17

When I was about 14 in an English class the teacher had us make a recording in the class with stuff that was to hand to try and imitate the sound of a busy supermarket. We had about 5 minutes to prepare. It was great fun.
He then played it to other classes to ask them what they were listening to, and even when they were told we had faked it he was not believed!

I've always been amazed by how sound effects are made, my kids loved it when I cut a coconut up to make horse sounds. I am still astounded by how little movie soundtrack is not faked. (The have to fake most of it as the sound recordists set up the microphones to catch the dialogue rather than the sounds that other things are making, though often the dialogue also has to be rerecorded in a studio separately afterwards because the set was too noisy.
The famous British actor Jack Hawkins (Bridge on the River Kwai etc) lost the ability to speak properly due to throat cancer and his subsequent films always had to have his dialogue added afterwards by an impersonator.

You’ve probably already heard this one. If it’s been posted here before, I apologize.


A Priest was presenting a special children's mass to the congregation. During the message, he asked the children if they knew what the resurrection was.

Now, asking questions during children's mass is crucial, but at the same time, asking the children questions in front of a congregation can also be very dangerous.

Having asked the children if they knew the meaning of the resurrection, a little boy raised his hand. The Priest called on him and the little boy said, "All I know is that if you have a resurrection that lasts more than four hours you are supposed to call the doctor."

It took over ten minutes for the congregation to settle down enough from their laughter for mass to be continued