Plot concerns an man who juggles three air stewardess fiancées by means of careful scheduling. The obvious obviously happens and they all end up in his Paris apartment simultaneously and have to be shuffled between rooms. Pretty hard to suspend disbelief for that bit. The girls are Italian, German and American and fully compliant with all national and sexual stereotypes. Carla from Cheers plays the apartment's cynical maid.

Overall, a bit dated, but fairly entertaining: you could do worse. Not nearly as good as "The 39 Steps though".

Musuems
Had a quick look through the Hockney on Turner watercolours exhibition at Tate Britain. David Hockney has sorted through some of the vast and hidden collection of minor Turners: has some oil sketches and oil paintings as well as the watercolours.

It's a fair-sized exhibition and pretty impressive. Hard to pick out favourites though.

Surprisingly, not too busy, no kids, despite being free. The museums seemed to be exceptionally quiet that day (Saturday) though: I think everyone (or at least the tourists) was watching the Tour de France pass through London instead. Didn't bother myself.

Listening
Finished the Teaching Company's Argumentation lecture course. Covers the theory of argumentation: mostly informal logic, a bit of the philosophy of arguments, and a very little bit on debating tactics.

Well presented, but ultimately pretty boring. Goes through an awful lot of taxonomy, covering various forms of argument, rebuttals, and fallacies; most of which is fairly obvious.

The areas covered are mostly those that would be useful in a very formal environment like a courtroom or a debating society. Everyday argument, even in a place like old-school K5, is a bit more illogical and partisan than the cases mentioned here.

Interesting in some of its examples, but not much actual use.

Unintentional comedy
I'd noticed a while ago that while the movie Airplane was hysterically funny, none of the other movies made by the same people was quite as good. Didn't realise it till I saw this Youtube clip clip that Airplane was largely a remake of a cheesy film called zero hour, and large chunks of the dialogue were just quoted literally.

Another thing that comes to mind is the book "Three Men in a Boat", which was to be a long, serious account of the history and geography of the Thames, lightened up with comic interludes. A ruthless publisher sliced out everything but the interludes and created a comic classic.

What other examples are there of unintentional comedy?

Some belated links
Pics. Crimeboss magazine covers include Reform school girl. Alcoholics anonymous comics

Optimum copyright 14 years (long PDF)

Youtube. The Wire's fucking crime scene investigation.

Tech. Troll or real? Managing programmers [Stolen from reddit]

News. Americans saved from half-millimeter penis. This bun tastes like cardboard.

Hacking. Athens mobile phone spying. Cash machine hack: shop-owners fault for not changing master password from the default: 123456.