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I’m a fan of humorous diagrams as much as the next guy. Okay, perhaps more than the next guy, because I just spent an hour reading through the archives of Indexed, a blog of diagrams that “make fun of some things and sense of others,” as author Jessica Hagy puts it. Here are some examples:



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(Via 43 Folders.)
A Senator would not be in the House. A Senator would be in the Senate.
posted by Witty Nickname on 10-16-2007 at 11:17 am
The pirate/rap video cracked me up.
posted by heather on 10-16-2007 at 12:22 pm
Witty,
I’m with you on the House/Senate think. You’d be 100% right if the diagram said House (cap), but in defense of whoever developed that diagram, the Senate is one of the two houses (lc) of the U.S. Congress. Still, I think it was likely an oversight.
posted by Caleb on 10-16-2007 at 2:54 pm