News and updates +--- a.k.a. ramblings... 6th Nov: Changed a couple of very minor things and decided to plug a new site in the little box below this. Yesterday I started writing a general blog, which might be worth checking out if you ever wonder what I do during my gaping absences from FAL. [;3] 9th Oct: FAL has been very kindly listed at The Archives. [=D] And with the advent of Ranking Pages, I've added a Ranking Placements section down at the Affiliates section. 6th Oct (later): Apparently having errors reported to me is the motivation I need to get there first. A helpful Neopian pointed out a default'd screenie page earlier, and since then I've been going through all the links excepting the big blue box of screenie listings (I will be checking the box at some point, I promise). So we're minus a few poofed LOL listings, and a few poofed affiliates and stuff. [=3] Yay for cleanliness. 6th October: I added a new screenie page today, and would also very much like to introduce a brand new branch of the directory - Life's A Game, a separate and compact little page that aims to help you find all the ranking pages, site-of-the-months and graphic-making contests you could need with ease. [^.^] 30th September: FAL has a new affiliate in the form of Neopia's Got Talent. [=)] 8th September: Find A Laugh is now listed in Landslide. [=3] Deleted a couple of vanished affiliates the other day. I think checking FAL's many links might be the thing to do... it's been a while. 5th September: Did I mention phases the other day? Well, I've been in a 'concentrating my energies on Courier' phase. [x)] But I did sit down on the Help Chat the other morning and added a few pages to the screenie box. To be honest, I'm not sure what to do here. Obviously I could go around adding more stuff to the various sections, but somehow that doesn't seem necessary. Surely there's something more necessary I could be improving on? Maybe I need to poke the Help Chat into giving me some opinions... As now they can't complain that my title banner is too plain... They'll have to come up with something else to not like! Buahaha! [8D] 29th August: What's that? Weapon finally got around to making a nice, fancy image for up the top there? [=O] Ahhhh, I'm being rolled over by waves of satisfaction here. Please let me know if anything looks wrong about the new image though, because I haven't got it checked in muliple browsers yet. I will be doing that, just in case. 25th August: Although I didn't see the results of the SOTM Leaves of Carnivals before it went down for a revamp, I'm told Find A Laugh did very well with over thirty votes. Thirty. [o____o] That's... an awful lot. Thanks. [=O] Sorry for my lack of activity here. I think I find it easier to go through phases of which of my sites I'm paying attention to, rather than forcing myself to work on things equally. Of course that means any regular visitors of FAL suffer. [D:] You may be interested to know that I updated my rambling About Me page with a new layout, some rewritten content, and a 'plog' I'm going to try and keep up with. 14th August: If you read about my misadventures with underlining headers in previous news, you'll be happy to know they aren't underlining any more! Be happy for me, at least. [x.x] In other news, a positive pile of pages has been added to the L.O.L., all by the one person. 11th August: The Three Petskateers is now listed in the L.O.L. and is also a new affiliate. [=D] 10th August: Sorry there's been rather a lack of interesting new stuff happening here lately. [n.n] I've been lazy the last few days and haven't even been answering neomails promptly. You can blame a new project I'm working on - which should soon be revealed. ETA: sooner than I thought: click for Courier. [;3] As to FAL, I've decided to do away with the Featured bit until I think of a more interesting way of doing it, because as it is I just keep forgetting to change it. Also, you may be glad to know a more captivating title banner is in the pipeline. 3rd August: H33lix's Comic Guide is now an affiliate. [=D] 28th July: We must wave goodbye to The XXI, a site whose owner decided to take it down. It was fun whole it lasted. [=3] I added animated, graphic awards to the Onpage Games section today. We also have a new/old affiliate, Screenie Directory, one who was around before FAL's hiatus. 24th July: Just an extra poke to check out the very new site called Gamer* . Absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I decided to join in the current competition. [-shiftyeyes-] Anyway, do check it out and take a look at all the entries - some are really clever. [:o] Now listed in the directory Very Important Sites. 23rd July: Voting is now open in the SOTM Leaves of Carnivals. [=D] Today I adjusted the criteria in the Announcement to your left. I also added a bit in the I Spy to point out how challenging it is, in case people were thinking it was a kiddie's game. Added Gamer* and Panda to the LOL. Been listed in the directory Al-Dalil. 18th July: Not a whole lot to report, sorry. [n.n] I've been working on A Gift For Life, and on some stuff for a new (but hopefully small) project. 15th July: Now listed at The Orange Peel. 13th July: Find A Laugh is now listed at Little Black Book. Still looking for jokes. [=3] 11th July: [-points to Announcement to the left-] 10th (later): Among adding a handful of screenie pages, FAL has gained a new listing in the LOL and an affiliate both in the form of Sneeze , and is also now participating in Leaves of Carnivals. 10th July: Noticed this morning that the headers were underlining when you hovered over them, because they were the destination for the anchor links. I've managed to stop them doing it, which I personally found astonishing. [xD] [edit] ...I'm told they still underline on Firefox. [=(] (I use Opera myself.) [/edit] 8th July: Adjusted the rules of the I Spy in the hope of attracting more players. Perhaps I should mention that the answers are more difficult than your average I Spy...? I also got around to making a couple of 'listed in' buttons, although one of them ended up saying 'listed at' and one 'listed in'. [x.x] I'm actually not sure which is more correct, but consistency would have been good whichever. . ++ Pathways To Success is what you need if you ever get that itch to do a bit of philosophising. +--- Linkback buttons... <a href="http://www.neopets.com/~Kelly555000"><img src="http://www.acoustictonkinese.com/image/falbutton_1.png" width="88" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.neopets.com/~Kelly555000"><img src="http://www.acoustictonkinese.com/image/falbutton_3.gif" width="88" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.neopets.com/~Kelly555000"><img src="http://www.acoustictonkinese.com/image/falbutton_2.png" width="88" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.neopets.com/~Kelly555000"><img src="http://www.acoustictonkinese.com/image/falbutton_5.gif" width="88" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.neopets.com/~Kelly555000"><img src="http://www.acoustictonkinese.com/image/falbutton_4.png" width="88" border="0"></a> +--- Visitors... Since 20th May, 2006.

Welcome to my directory

+--- Step this way...

Welcome to Find A Laugh, directory of screenshots and funny stuff. [=D] Originally only a directory of Neopians' screenie pages (you know how people take pictures of things around Neopia and stick them up on a petpage? Right. That's a screenie page for you), we have since branched out into other forms of entertainment. Why not take a look at the navigation below or simply go for a skim? Enjoy!

Oh, and my name's Weapon. If you happen to see a yellow Bori around, that will be Kelly, the co-owner.


Life's A Game is a new and greeny fresh offshoot of Find A Laugh, being a directory of ranking pages, site-of-the-months, and graphic-making contests. A gamer's directory, you might say. [^.~]

+--- About FAL...

The arrows () are a second version of the links they appear after - they will open the same address in a new tab or window (which depends on your browser settings). The exceptions are the Recent Additions, all links in the blue box of screenie pages, and the affiliates; these will open in a new tab or window regardless, just to confuse you.

FAL was my first 'help site', created six months after I discovered Neopia. I consider it be on its second lease of life at the moment (though it's on about... the seventh layout [D=]). May, 2006 - January, 2009. Hiatus. June, 2009 - present. During the hiatus I wasn't updating, and only the screenie pages themselves were up and on a very simple layout. The hit counter wasn't in place then either, so it was rather like FAL just wasn't there.

+--- Navigation...

• The directory of screenshots
• The rating system
• Screenie-making guides
• List of laughs
• The Neopian Times
• Plots of Neopia
• Onpage Games
• The affiliated ones
• Thanks for visiting

• Neopets.com
• Neomail me
• My userlookup
• Kelly's lookup (FAL's awards)
• A Gift For Life
• I Just Won The Game
• Courier
• Filter Solutions
• Life's A Game

The directory of screenshots

+--- Dive on in...

Pages listed: 434 HORSE GRAM
A page listed that isn't there anymore? Or full of broken images? Please let me know. Thanks. [=3]

Like your page listed? Drop me a neomail with a link to your petpage, and I'll let you know once I've added it. There are no restrictions as to what we accept. [C=] Please use one of the buttons to link back to me before or immediately after.

+--- Recent Additions...

(21/10/09) User: Angel_of_the_water10 - Pet: Emerrellis
(13/10/09) User: Binformation - Pet: Plumeeria
(06/10/09) User: Crepusculelove - Pet: Domynicke
(17/09/09) User: Eugeniamezeritski - Pet: LawDuckie
(07/09/09) User: Guitar_champ980 - Pet: Rainingrabbits
(04/09/09) User: Novcic - Pet: Uelc
(04/09/09) User: Catikins - Pet: Thorniecroft
(04/09/09) User: Stranged - Pet: Vanawe

+--- Splash...

The pages are no longer rated

+--- But when they were...

There are two rating systems in use among the screenshot pages here: the old and the less old. The old split the screenie pages into three different categories: 1-4, 5-7, and 8-10. Ten was high. The less old (and less in evidence) was out of twenty. Designed to be less subjective, it looked at several different aspects and awarded points for each to make the total. It could also award half points, e.g. 12.5, or even 0.5. Twenty was high. Any graphic awards that were available are available no longer.

Screenie-making guides

+--- Explore the art...

ScreenieHelp by Braikuvdawn: A straight forward how-to, touching briefly on cropping and file formats. Includes images; some HTML codes you might want to include on your screenie page; a guide for Mac users, and tips from other screenie-makers. A Dutch translation of the whole page is available.

Metalworks by Kmc244: More aesthetic but essentially along the same lines as ScreenieHelp. The two could perhaps be read together, to offset any differences in opinion. Includes images and an FAQ on the subject.

Impression by Shinning123: A highly detailed and explorative guide - this one's not for those wanting to know where to find the Print Screen key, but those wanting to improve. A clean layout and plenty of images. Important parts of the text are highlighted for clarity.

Neopian Times writers offer us some thoughts on the matter, too:

• Screenies: What Neopets Never Told You by Sumthingshiny
• A Neopian's Guide to Screenie...izing by Megamooseking
• How to Make Good Screenshots by Weaponstar

Other resources for the budding comedian:

• (petpage) H33lix's Comic Guide by Pacmanite
• (NTimes) So You Want to Be a Neopian Cartoonist, eh? by Caloriemuncher
• (NTimes) Chomby Crash Comics Course by Silverskink

The LOL, or list of laughs

+--- Entertainment at your fingertips...

• (graphics) Fake Pet Colours by Scattergirl
• (graphics) Phantom Orange Shirt Guy Fan Page by Scattergirl
• (graphics) Mao's Painted Petpetpets by Mao_mau
• (directory) Plot Humour Pages Directory by Tess_240
• (prank) The Chokato by _Tanwen_
• (quiz) The HC Stereotype Quiz by Zbryant
• (prank) Scammer Warning by Taxi_9211
• (uncategorised) Shout to the Pillow by Pacmanite
• (game) Mulitplayer Connect 4 by The_stripy_socks
• (prank) My Piece of Toast by Cat_e13
• (directory) Mallowmeow's World by xMissmeowx
• (adoptables) E-yeggs by Easydamsel
• (literary) Articles of Debatable Importance by Ellen1232123
• (comic) The Restock Machine by Cardquestmanager
• (game) The NeoHunt by Grantauy
• (directory) Quizmania by Crystallineh
• (graphics) Pea World by Guiro
• (voting-game) Funniest HC Topics of the Day by Surflightseamstress
• (prankish) Rock Paper Scissors by Bumperboats
• (facts) Sneeze by 142035
• (voting-game) Gamer* by Gelatisimo
• (facts) Panda by Fruitjuiceland
• (literary) The Three Petskateers by Da_4gotten_bubba
• (craft) Need Herbal Scrambled Eggs? by Shady_s_angel
• (craft) So You Want a FQD? by Shady_s_angel
• (craft) You Want a Draik Egg? by Shady_s_angel
• (craft) You Want a Transmogrification Potion by Shady_s_angel
• (craft) So You Want Some Neggs? by Shady_s_angel
• (craft) You want a Plushie Paintbrush? by Shady_s_angel
• (craft) So You'd Like a Meowclops? by Shady_s_angel
• (craft) So you need a SuAP? by Shady_s_angel
• (organisation) RRDA Headquarters by Glitter34bubba

The Neopian Times

+--- Funny story, y'know...

Not only does Neopia's number one newspaper provide us with a bottomless pit of trite and clichéd stories, it has a section of (supposedly funny) comics as well!

• Click for the Neopian Times

But besides the comics, there's one or two literary pieces that might entice a chuckle from you. And if you know of any humourous pastermieces yourself, do let us know of them.

The Meepit Show by Spoonguardonline is one of my personal favourites. One of a long and - correct me if I'm wrong - still going) run of short stories plus a series, I ran across it for the first time just as I was despairing of finding anything decent to read. The play-like format may be unconventional, but that doesn't stop the characters coming across in all their charmingly flawed colours. And if the reference to meepits (argh old jokes) irritates you, don't worry, you'll love the humour. Click for all of Spoonguardonline's publications.

Dear Crabby by Dan4884 is another multiple publication - 'advice columns' written by a mutant Lenny ('and proud of it, baby!') named Crabby, who is indeed rather crabby and who is frequently annoyed by the idiocy he perceives in his readers. Click for all of Dan4884's publications.

The Secret Diary of Jeran Borodere by Nimras23. As the title indicates, it's in the form of a diary - affording us a look inside the mind of Jeran, Meridell's hero, during the Battle for Meridell. It certainly isn't as squeaky clean in that fellow's head as one might imagine. Also well worth a read is the companion story, The Secret Diary of Danner Carnahan. It should perhaps be noted that both of these were published around April Fools day. [;3] Click for all of Nimras23's publications.

The Old Neopian's Guide to the New Neopia by Too_kule isn't so much what it says on the tin but what it says in the fine print. This quirky guide will point you in the wrong direction and suggest that untied shoelaces are definitely 'in'. Click for all of Too_kule's publications.

Newspapers Across Neopia by Silent_snow tells us all about those other papers that don't quite measure up to the Neopian Times. Stuffed full of logic and references, this may well have the experienced Neopian smiling all the way through. Click for all of Silent_snow's publications.

Neopia's Future New Features by Slamina83. Written back in Y7, this clever article contains 'predictions' of new features - right up to Y57! Includes mention of the 2283rd issue of the Neopian Times, the twelfth version of Meerca Chase, and plenty of TNT-like humour. Click for all of Slamina83's publications.

Mysteries of Neopia Revealed by Argetl. Written in a play-like format, this inane, laugh-a-minute article isn't so much about the 'mysteries' as about the cast's spectacular failure to discuss them. And don't let the number of characters deter you - it only adds to the madness. [;D] There is also a Mysteries of Neopia Revealed II. Click for all of Argetl's publications.

Plots of Neopia

+--- Comically done...

Here we have links to the comics that mark out Neopia's continuing legacy. History has never been so flashy. [;D] They're arranged in what I hope is the correct order, from oldest to latest.

• Champions of Meridell
• Battle for Meridell
• Hannah and the Ice Caves
• Curse of Maraqua
• Lost Desert Plot
• The Cyodrake's Gaze
• The Tale of Woe
• Journey to the Lost Isle
• The Return of Dr. Sloth
• Operation Petpet Park

Onpage Games

+--- Sharp wits come hither...

I definitely enjoyed making these. Hopefully you will enjoy doing them. [;3] If you don't tell me otherwise with either of these, I will put you on the scoreboard.

+--- Vegetables...

Kelly and I have hidden five 'codes' about this page. You'll know them for what they are because they will all name a different vegetable in ALL CAPITALS. You can neomail me what vegetables they are when you've found them. Oh, and since they're proving more evasive than I imagined, you may let me know at any point (whether you have found one, two, three, four, or five) to be added to the scoreboard below.

+--- I Spy...

I Spy (with my little eye...) is a guessing game where one player (the spyer) secretly chooses something in the vicinity and tells the other players only the first letter of the something. The other players then proceed to try and guess what the spyer is thinking of. Normally this would be played with actual, panoramic surroundings. Let's hope it works just as well with images. [=D] But be warned - this is intentionally tougher than your average I Spy.

Click to neomail me your guess - please remember to state clearly which image you are guessing on. You have unlimited guesses. Good luck. [=3]

• Library - I spy something beginning with 'S'.
• Lunar Festival - I spy something beginning with 'B'.
• Tonu - I spy something beginning with 'M'.
• Faellies - I spy something beginning with 'E'.
• Imperial Exam - I spy something beginning with 'S'.

+--- And for the winner...

Awards! [=D] But only for those who have scored 5/5 (i.e. those in the bolded font) on the relevant game.



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The affiliated ones

+--- Ooh, flashy buttons...

Requests for affiliation are most definitely open.

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Thanks for visiting

+--- Curtain down...

Suggestions are welcome, corrections are appreciated. Thanks for your support. Please drop by again soon! [=3]





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