Intrinsically Hilarious Phrases

Sometimes a single phrase is hilarious by itself, but then the backstory just highlights the ridiculousness. Here are a few I’ve encountered recently where I get a giggle just by thinking of the phrase*:

• Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice – This is the actual name of the Saudi religious police. Here be the proof. (You know, the same religious police that stopped the rescue of 15 girls from a burning school because they weren’t wearing sufficiently Islamic dress, thereby causing them to burn to death.)
• Insufficiently Biblical – As if this isn’t funny enough by itself, the context is from a conversation on Declaring Independence Radio, This is the term used by one of the founding fathers of modern creationism to criticise the Discovery Institute (which promotes Intelligent Design a.k.a creationism in a cheap tuxedo). It’s always amusing for a wingnut to be criticised by an even greater wingnut for not being wingnutty enough.
• Time travelling chiropractor – This comes from an old SGU episode. It sounds like a parody but isn’t. A chiropractor claimed he could heal you by travelling back in time to when your injury originally occured and fix you there. And this is where it gets good: he treated complaints that were sent to him over the internet, thus never even having to meet the patient. Yep. Of course this isn’t much more ridiculous than some alt-med claims.
• ADDED – An Act abolishing diversity in Opinions – I forgot the best one and it only came to me a few weeks later! So I did a separate post on it.

If you have any intrinsically hilarious phrases, pray tell…

*There may be social cues here because I remembered the last 2 because the podcast hosts actually highlighted that these phrases are hilarious intrinsically.