Debate Humor

April 18, 2008

April 4, 2008

  • New Global Warming Impact

    Ted Turner (as in Ted Turner Public Forum Debate) has come up with a new impact to global warming: cannibalism.
    Soylent Green is people!
    [via Boing Boing]

April 1, 2008

  • Pen-Spinning King

    Do you think debate has made you a champion pen-spinner? Check out this guy:
    Ryuki Omura, a 16-year-old Japanese high school student, has become the first nationwide pen-spinning champion with such slick maneuvers, a group devoted to the pastime said on Monday.

March 31, 2008

March 14, 2008

March 10, 2008

  • Nerdy Superdelegates

    Nerdy Superdelegates: These are the people that may be choosing the Democratic nominee in August.

January 7, 2008

  • Menick Recants?

    First he says this, now he says this.
    It’s all just a cheap way to get to this.
    BTW, I still don’t like this.

December 31, 2007

  • Ralph Wiggum For President!

    Don’t miss The Simpsons this Sunday. Ralph Wiggum is running for President of the United States. TV Squad reports:
    “Ralph will announce his candidacy on the January 6th episode of The Simpsons. Actually, he isn’t the one who announces it; rather, the voters of Springfield, who reject all of the other candidates in their first primary, [...]

December 24, 2007

  • Dear Santa

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    day 54 - last minute panic, originally uploaded by rolypoly_girl.

    You might be a debater if you quibble with Santa on the definitions of naughty and nice.

November 2, 2007

  • Pen Spinning

    Pen spinning is not just for debaters. Two collections of pen spinning related links were published this week:

    Buzzfeed: Pen Spinning.
    Metafilter: You Spin Me Right Round, Baby, Right Round

    Unfortunately, pen spinning is not a skill that I ever mastered.

October 16, 2007

  • Budget Deficit Humor

    Here are some fun stories about the budget deficit:

    Bush To Cut Deficit From Federal Budget
    Bush Diagnosed With Attention-To-Deficit Disorder
    Congress Erases Federal Deficit Using Don Lapre ‘Making Money’ System

    Novice Disclaimer: Please note that The Onion is a humor site. None of these articles should be quoted in a real debate round.

October 7, 2007

  • Puppet Debates

    Gordon Mitchell from the University of Pittsburgh has posted a puppet debate trailer on YouTube. The full debate is to be posted at a later date. The topic is: “This House believes the U.S. needs a President with No Strings Atached.” Personally, I think Professor Hackenbush sounds like Howard Sprague from The Andy Griffith Show.
    Using [...]

September 27, 2007

  • Beauty and the Geek: Opposites Attract

    I’m just catching up on some television shows that I recorded earlier this week. I discovered that this week’s episode of Beauty and the Geek has the geeks rapping and the beauties debating:
    The male Beauty and the female Geek, the biggest twist in the history of BEAUTY & THE GEEK, move into the mansion and [...]

September 19, 2007

  • Arrr! It’s International Talk Like A Pirate Day!

    Today, September 19, is International Talk Like A Pirate Day! What could be more fun than a debate practice round done in pirate speak?
    The folks at Buzzfeed have a nice collection of Talk Like A Pirate Day links.
    Checkout The Pirate Primer: Mastering the Language of Swashbucklers and Rogues by former Emory University debater, George Choundas. [...]

August 21, 2007

  • How Not To Debate

    This YouTube video from CNN is a good demonstration of how not to debate.

August 19, 2007

  • Forensics: Episode 1

    The first episode of Forensics, a serial comedy about speech and debate, has launched on YouTube.

August 2, 2007

July 30, 2007

July 15, 2007

  • Debate Is…

    …laughing so hard your stomach hurts.
    Debate class was fun, but I don’t think it was that fun.

July 12, 2007

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