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  Fatal hilarity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fatal hilarity is death as a result of laughter.
In 1782, a certain Mrs Fitzherbert is reported to have suffered from an attack of hilarity while she attended a performance of the Beggar's Opera.
The Joker from DC Comics uses fatal hilarity as his primary means of murder.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fatal_hilarity   (730 words)

  
 DVD Authority - Printable DVD Review of Fatal Frames: Special Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
I have to tell you, Fatal Frames is a bad movie all around, but I also have to admit, my collection wouldn't be complete without this disc.
Although his role is very small in Fatal Frames, the presence of Donald Pleasence (Halloween, Phenomena) is important here, as it marked his final screen performance.
Fatal Frames is presented in a 1.85:1 widescreen transfer, which is not enhanced for widescreen televisions.
www.dvdauthority.com /print_friendly.asp?reviewid=936   (1179 words)

  
 American Theater Web - Find theaters, Broadway shows, and musicals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Burnett, thus costumed, descends the stairs as if nothing is amiss, and the scene in which Scarlett attempts to pretend that the war has not had any effect on her proceeds.
Not only is the battle well-staged, it has touches of comic flair that are the high points of the evening, moments in which, like Burnett’s drapes, the unexpected becomes truly funny.
Fatal Attraction: A Greek Tragedy continues through August 27 at The East 13th Street Theatre (136 East 13th Street).
www.americantheaterweb.com /news/ind.asp?id=106576   (795 words)

  
 Helium Hilarity | Hilarity Label   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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 Teleport City
The movie was a bug success, thanks in no small part to the fact that it starred Sammo Hung, who was one of the two hottest properties in the business at the time, possibly the hottest since he was the total package where Jackie Chan was still considered primarily just an actor.
Hot on the heels of their success, the Tung Wei - Joe Cheung tried it again with 18 Fatal Strikes, a less successful but still enjoyable entry into the kungfu comedy genre which unfortunately got lost in the shuffle that year since there were roughly ninety-three thousand similar movies made at the same time.
18 Fatal Strikes is a good example of the kungfu comedy genre because it fulfills all the requirements, showcases the strengths of the formula, and also spotlights the weaknesses.
www.teleport-city.com /movies/reviews/e-f/eighteen_fatal_strikes.html   (4786 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | Both a grain of sand and eternity
The disciple is always likely to spurn both-and as tainting temptation, the fatal compromise which loses the soul in gaining the world.
It is not a case of hilarity damped down by desolation and desolation damped down by hilarity.
No; the hilarity is yet more hilarious by being desolate, and the desolation is yet more desolate by being hilarious.
www.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,,1344777,00.html   (678 words)

  
 Managed Care Matters - Hilarity break II
Managed Care Matters - Hilarity break II Managed Care Matters
Hilarity break II And you thought Part D was all serious stuff...
That will prove you are a real human and not a computer system that is posting spam.
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 Salon Mothers Who Think | Juvenilia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Hilarity and insight -- sometimes unintended -- show up in the early writings of great authors.
We sighed and fainted on the sofa." Too much fainting undermines their health; one complains to the other with her dying breath, "One fatal swoon has cost me my life...
Run mad as often as you choose; but do not faint." Austen's equally delightful "History of England," written the next year "by a partial, predjudiced, and ignorant Historian," is available in facsimile, complete with illustrations by her sister Cassandra.
www.salon.com /mwt/wild/1999/05/18/juvenilia/index.html   (744 words)

  
 Las Vegas Mercury: Film: On the line: Farrell takes a fatal call in ...
Las Vegas Mercury: Film: On the line: Farrell takes a fatal call in...
I'm wetting my pants with hilarity in here.
In fairness, though, those four years have been busy ones for Farrell, who has crammed into them seven films and, if one believes the tabloids, innumerable one-night stands.
www.lasvegasmercury.com /2003/MERC-Apr-03-Thu-2003/21020209.html   (535 words)

  
 TNMC TV: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Outside of Anya's Martha Stewart crack, there wasn't a single moment of humor or joy in the entire hour.
That isn't necessarily a fatal flaw - one of the best episodes ever was also the saddest.
But even in the worst episodes, with nothing else to go on, you could always count on at least some comedy.
www.tnmc.org /tv/buffy610.shtml   (925 words)

  
 furiosity.com: wielding righteous indignation like the hammer of judgment, baby -- a site for satire, editorials, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
As the court of inquiry continues its investigation into the fatal collision between the nuclear submarine USS Greeneville and a Japanese fishing boat, questions about the Navy's "distinguished visitor program" and rumours of drunken cavorting by aging rock stars on board the submarine have begun to surface.
A court of inquiry has been told that a lengthy lunch for guests aboard a U.S. nuclear attack submarine led to an almost 45-minute delay in the emergency surfacing maneuver that resulted in a fatal collision with a Japanese fishing boat on February 9.
Rear Adm. Charles Griffiths, who led the Navy's investigation into the accident that left nine Japanese men and boys dead, was the first to testify at the proceedings.
furiosity.com /feature.php?fid=38   (1188 words)

  
 The Vicar Of Wakefield —5
At a small distance from the house my predecessor had made a seat, overshaded by an hedge of hawthorn and honeysuckle.
Some-times, to give a variety to our amusements, the girls sung to the guitar; and while they thus formed a little concert, my wife and I would stroll down the sloping field, that was embellished with blue-bells and centaury, talk of our children with rapture, and enjoy the breeze that wafted both health and harmony.
It was about the beginning of autumn, on a holiday, for I kept such as intervals of relaxation from labour, that I had drawn out my family to our usual place of amusement, and our young musicians began their usual concert.
www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/goldsmth/vicar/chap5.htm   (1167 words)

  
 The General (Silent) - Silent Films Classic Movies on DVD (1927) - Alpha Video : Oldies.com
He springs into action when he realizes the "other" love of his life, girlfriend Annabelle Lee, is taken captive.
His adventure turns from drama to hilarity in a memorable and poignant fashion.
Buster Keaton displays the deadpan countenance and brilliant comic timing that made him one of America's most beloved comedians and an icon of his era.
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 Webster promises a 'Devil' of a good time   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
However destructive their passion becomes, it is at least genuine, and Australian stars Marcus Graham and Angie Milliken make their fatal attraction deliciously palpable.
Bruce Spence is drolly doltish as Vittoria's husband, whom Brachiano and Flamineo conspire to kill, while Jacqueline McKenzie displays grace and grit as Brachiano's long-suffering wife, Isabella, who also is quickly disposed of.
The bloodletting accelerates toward the end, culminating in a final sequence that rivals anything Tarantino has done in its gore quotient and perverse hilarity.
www.usatoday.com /life/theater/lt010.htm   (685 words)

  
 Toulouse-Lautrec: La Gitane   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The story follows the fatal attraction of various men to the heartless Spanish gypsy Rita.
Lautrec has given a choreographic S-shape to the figure's swaggering posture, her face contorted in grotesque hilarity.
She gives a pitiless jeer over her shoulder at one of her frantic lovers scrambling after a rival over the hilly Granada scenery.
www.sdmart.org /lautrec/Gitane.html   (170 words)

  
 ahniwa de montrĂ©al » Serenity N… last night!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Well, hilarity in a very non-productive sort of way.
As he is stepping through the threshold, he asks me to make a solemn vow that I will watch Serenity.
Other than the near fatal dose of American Consumerism Humanity, it was an enjoyable experience.
www.ahniwa.com /2005/10/01/serenity-n-last-night   (305 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Femmes Fatal: Books: Dorothy Cannell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
With moments of warmth, hilarity and suspicion, this book has the same winning blend that makes Ms.
When the Chitterton Falls women sign up to join a club that promises to bring the passion back into marriage, with its helpful counseling and incredibly funny handbook of hints, things don't go as well as they should.
Therefore, the spelling of FATAL is a representation of murder, in order to create a more dramatic effect for the book.
www.amazon.com /Femmes-Fatal-Dorothy-Cannell/dp/0553296841   (1264 words)

  
 NewspaperARCHIVE.com - Search old newspapers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Prom the Bystander B EFORE Pitou, the composer, left for The Hague, he ca led on The- ophile d-e Fronsac, the poet.
To be infatuated by lier, they say, Is harmless enough, but to her is invariably fatal within a few Some time ago she engaged her- Sf If to one of the troupe, and soon after- ards he learned she was deceiving him.
She Is, by She smiled at him a moment later, but I knew with tolerable certainty that Bob- by would not have the luck to "lunch" mamma that day.
www.newspaperarchive.com /newspapers1/na0010/379040/4059663.html   (9084 words)

  
 2020 Hindsight » Iraq
The upshot is the same as the previous post, but with no hilarity whatsoever.
Along related lines (knowledge is power, fun facts about the Middle East) check out this Imperial History of the Middle East map (requires Flash to view).
The nail in the story Fatal Inaction (via) stands for basic supplies.
www.2020hindsight.org /category/iraq   (2688 words)

  
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Unsolicited commercial email was dubbed "spam" in the 1990s, after the British comedy group Monty Python introduced a skit in which a couple struggles to order dinner from a menu consisting entirely of Hormel's canned concoction.
The hilarity of the skit comes from the actors' use of the word "spam" more than 100 times in the two-and-half-minute sketch.
This inspired email users to adopt the terminology to describe the onslaught of unwanted email solicitations.
www.smith-winchester.com /inFocus/Infocus15Spam.htm   (755 words)

  
 DVD Verdict Review - Red Dwarf: Series 5-8
A fatal radiation leak in the ship's main drive has killed the entire crew except for one unfortunate bloke: Dave Lister (Craig Charles), Third Class Technician and for all intents and purposes the lowest-ranking member on board.
He has been sealed away in suspended animation for smuggling his pet cat onto the ship.
Fans often point to these shows as individual treasures (the Wild West excursion—"Gunmen of the Apocalypse"—even won an Emmy), but the cloud hanging over the show was about to burst wide open and the fallout was almost fatal.
www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/reddwarfseries58.php   (5263 words)

  
 DVD Pacific   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A "wickedly funny" (Cue) comedy about the value of life and death, this "hysterical" (Variety) slapstick farce will leave you dying from laughter!
So when he suddenly is diagnosed with a fatal -- and painful -- disease, he guzzles down a bottle of sleeping pills in an effort to end it all!
But his plan not only fails, it lands Sonny in the loony bin beside a demented schizophrenic named Marlon (DeLuise) who is more than eager to help him fulfill his mission!
www.dvdpacific.com /item.asp?ID=3091   (216 words)

  
 The Funniest Joke in the World - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Funniest Joke in the World is the most frequent title used to refer to a Monty Python's Flying Circus comedy sketch, also known by two other phrases that appear within it, "joke warfare" and "killer joke".
The premise of the sketch is fatal hilarity: The joke is simply so funny that anyone who reads or hears it promptly dies laughing.
The sketch appeared in the first episode of the series "Whither Canada?
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_funniest_joke_in_the_world   (494 words)

  
 Mystery, Alaska + Gladiator = Hilarity - The CHUD.COM Message Boards
Would killing three opponents in one match count as a hat trick?
If wounding somebody but then leaving the fatal blow for your teammate to deliver, would you earn an assist?
How nasty an offence would you need to commit in order to be placed in the penalty box?
www.chud.com /forums/showthread.php?p=484712   (200 words)

  
 diary - June 2006
In the first reported case of fatal hilarity, the Greek fortune-teller Calchas is supposed to have died of laughter on the day he was predicted to die, when the prediction didn't seem to be coming true.
For example, bacteria in water send water-insoluble molecules to each other in little packages called vesicles.
As if this weren't enough, it turns out that advanced life forms like us - eukaryotes, to be precise - are able to pass on traits not just using their DNA and RNA, but also using a trick called histone methylation.
math.ucr.edu /home/baez/diary/june_2006.html   (7792 words)

  
 IGN Boards - Foley in the game 4 times?
Do the names on the Countdown represent all the Superstars that will be in the game?
Imagine the hilarity of a Fatal Fourway between Foley, Mankind, Cactus Jack and Dude Love!
Imagine the hilarity of seeing this posted 80 times a day.
boards.ign.com /wwe_smackdown/b6546/129466154/p1/?1   (532 words)

  
 WCF Join
Jack then uses his remaining arm to choke his opponent.
A submission., JackTerminator: A Van-Terminator with the dropkick replaced by a flying headbutt., Trading Places: Chokeslam STO, Fatal Hilarity: The opponent is face down.
Jack hooks the leg as if he were to Mexican Stretch but instead uses an arm to hook the opponent's head into a Reverse Face Lock (Reverse DDT position.) He then uses his free arm to pass through the armpit and connect with his other.
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