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Babelavante is an old term from the Middle Ages for a bad joke.
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Eastenders is a successful BBC television soap-opera, first aired in 1985, about the everyday lives of a fictional community in 'Albert Square' in the East End of London. The show's relentless melancholy inspired viewers to joke that the only game never played by the residents of Albert Square is 'Happy Families'.
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Kremvax was originally, a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, announced on April 1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko. The posting was actually forged by Piet Beertema as an April Fool's joke. Other fictitious sites mentioned in the hoax were moskvax and kgbvax.
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Fanny Adams was an eight-year old British girl who in August 1867, was murdered at Alton, Hampshire while playing with her sister and a friend, and her body dismembered and the parts spread about local fields or in the river. Frederick Baker, a local clerk was convicted of the murder and was hanged on Christmas eve. Coincidentally, just after her murder, the British navy changed rations to chopped and cooked meat, leading to the sailors to joke that Fanny Adams' remains were being served up to them.
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Frank Capra was a Sicilian born Film director. He was born in 1897 at Palermo and died in 1991. His family moved to California when he was six, and he started work selling newspapers, playing the banjo, and doing other odd jobs. After studying chemical engineering he joined the army. Discharged he had other odd jobs until in 1922 he talked his way into directing a one- reeler, 'Fultah Fisher's Boarding House'. After learning about the film business, he became a joke writer for the Our Gang comedies and the comedian Harry Langdon. He directed some Langdon films and some two-reel comedies. His most renowned work as a director celebrated the decency and integrity of the common man as he combats corruption in high places, and he earned Oscars for the 1934 'It Happened One Night', the 1936 'Mr Deeds Goes to Town', and the 1938 'You Can't Take It With You'. His best known and most popular film was the 1947 'It's A Wonderful Life'.
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Ben Turpin was an American actor and film director. He was born in 1874 at New Orleans, Louisiana and died in 1940. His trademark were his crossed eyes, which he had insured by Lloyds of London - as a joke - in case they might come uncrossed.
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Joke Devynck is a Belgian actress. She was born in 1972 at Knokke.
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A job centre (known among the unemployed as a Joke Shop) is a British government employment agency that is supposed to seek work for those out of a job, assist employers to find suitable employees, and provide training facilities for trades in which there are shortages of skilled workers. In reality they are highly ineffective to the point of being laughable, hence their colloquial name of 'Joke Shop'.
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The Joke Virus is a computer virus which infects .COM files. The virus is loaded into memory by executing an infected program. The virus corrupts program or overlay files.
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Once You Meet A Stranger is a thriller starring Jacqueline Bisset, Theresa Russell and Robert Desiderio in a story about two women who meet on a train and jokingly make a murder pact, only one of the women takes the joke seriously. Once You Meet A Stranger was directed by Tommy Lee Wallace in 1996.
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