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LA is a funny place. And yet, amazingly, it is not the only source of humor.

 

Let us explore the strange yet mirth filled world around us.

 

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Walt Disney, Disneyland creator, and Werner Von Braun, rocket genius who jumpstarted the U.S. space program.

 

Disney loved this photo, and the toy rocket Werner sold him, but later admitted he never had any intentions of building a "Vonbraunland".

 

In fact, Walt used his clout to convince Orlando to build his own similar park, the hugely unsuccessful "Phallicsymbolland".

 

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After years of painstaking research, Artificial Intelligence pioneer Miriam Paterbski wins Nobel Prize for programming computer to calculate description of the perfect female. Answer: black hair, earrings, nice dress, big smile, pearls, black glasses, preferably holding white paper.

 

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"Say Madge, come look at this. We're getting an enormous spike in sales of large, white torpedo-shaped brassieres."

 

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Charlie spends 31 minutes trying to open his locker before realizing he didn't forget the combination after all -- he mistook the locker room for the computer again.

 

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YOU PICK THE CORRECT CAPTION:

 

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(a) Helen was proud to test the very first prototype of Self-Lasik Surgery.

 

(b) Frightened at first of the strange alien robot, Helen soon calmed down, and agreed to perform its bizarre eye-to-eye mating ritual.

 

(c) Having typed up that letter in a record 92 minutes, Helen now turns to her trusty IBM Proofreader 2000.