Some of these are funny, some are down-right "punny", some are just strange, and some of these really apply to our class...

Feel free to me with more BioHumor.  It's all around us! 

What did they call the dog that belonged to the baseball player?

The catcher's mutt.

A client in a restaurant complains to the waitress:

``There's cockroach in my soup!''

``Eat, we have more. I'll bring you a fork.''

OR........

A client in a restaurant asks the waitress:

``Why is there a dead cockroach in my soup?''

``Boiling water always kills them.''

Fly Poem

God in his wisdom,

made the fly

And then forgot,

to tell us why.

- Ogden Nash  

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

Limerick: (for AP Bio students-a little organic chemistry)

A mosquito was heard to complain
That a chemist had poisoned his brain
The cause of his sorrow
Was para-dichloro-
diphenyltrichloroethane

March 2, 1996

Emergency medical technicians in Sydney, Australia, were called to a hostel to remove a 1 1/2 inch cockroach trapped in the ear of a Swedish backpacker. AP Wire  

Then there was the one about the guy who woke up in the middle of the night bothered by mosquitos, grabbed the can of insecticide, sprayed it all around the room and then went back to bed. In the morning he discovered that the 'insecticide' was really a can of red paint.

There were these two cows, chatting over the fence between their fields. The first cow said, "I tell you, this mad-cow-disease is really pretty scary. They say it is spreading fast; I heard it hit some cows down on the Johnson Farm."

The other cow replies, "Gee, I'm not worried, it doesn't affect us ducks." 

This one is not necessarily BioHumor, but it does play with your mind.  Go to http://cs.bluffton.edu/~scoffman/magic.html to see what I mean.

And then visit this site http://www.funtrivia.com/ to take some science (and other) trivia quizzes and see just how much trivia you have stored over the years!!

There are also a whole slue of brain jokes at http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/jokes.html .

And, for the latest (only, as far as I know) issue of "Weekly Science Snoop", the weekly science newsletter from Science News.