12th Nov 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival Winning Jokes

Edinburgh 2011 Joke Results ~

Comedian Nick Helm has won an award for the best joke of the Edinburgh Fringe. The up-and-coming funny man was given the prize by digital TV channel Dave, whose panel put a selection of their favourites to a public vote.

He won for the joke: "I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves."

The Rest of the Top Ten Festival Funnies ~

2. Tim Vine: "Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels."
3. Hannibal Buress: "People say 'I'm taking it one day at a time'. You know what? So is everybody. That's how time works."
4. Tim Key: "Drive-Thru McDonalds was more expensive than I thought ... once you've hired the car..."
5. Matt Kirshen: "I was playing chess with my friend and he said, 'Let's make this interesting'. So we stopped playing chess."
6. Sarah Millican: "My mother told me, you don't have to put anything in your mouth you don't want to. Then she made me eat broccoli, which felt like double standards."
7. Alan Sharp: "I was in a band which we called The Prevention, because we hoped people would say we were better than The Cure."
8. Andrew Lawrence: "I admire these phone hackers. I think they have a lot of patience. I can't even be bothered to check my OWN voicemails."
9. DeAnne Smith: "My friend died doing what he loved ... Heroin."

** Sorry, I couldn't find the 10th joke!

 

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12th Nov 2011 News High In The Sky

Walking on cloud nine, virtually ~

Forty six year old Freddy Nock, Swiss, nicknamed 'Dancer of the Alps', is a man passionate for heights; not climbing up mountains but practicing funambulism, walking on tightrope literally sky high, and continues to add distance between the starting and finishing points, never with any security nets or any other means of protection.

He just achieved a new record of height and length, walking on a cable 3,000 metres above sea level, reaching the height of Zugspitze, the highest mountain in Germany, taking 90 minutes, a world record to date.

Sheer courage or madness, I am not sure which.

 

The Electric multi-helicopter (not to be confused with UFO) ~

Three German engineers have designed a rather original airship that functions with batteries, and 6 small and synchronised helices. Here we see it elevated from ground, piloted by a man for the first time. On this trial run, it flew I minute 30 second.

 

Almost since beginning of time, people have yawned to be able to fly, like birds, not in an aircraft. Indeed many have attempted with different degree of success, but clumsily, and mostly with hilarious or disastrous results. Who knows, the day might just come yet. In my dream, I have indeed flown like birds, many times.

 

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