CollegeHumor: How It Happened http://www.collegehumor.com/tag/how-it-happened Funny Videos, Funny Pictures, Funny Links! /article/3871766 http://www.collegehumor.com/article/3871766/sneakers-are-named Sneakers Are Named Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:17:15 -0500 1892 – Inventor Adam Abbot bursts into the office he shares with his fellow inventors.

Adam: I’ve done it, Gentlemen!  I’ve created a new, comfortable type of footwear!

Steve: Oh?

Adam: Yes.  You see, the walls of the shoe are composed of stiffened cotton and the soles are made of formed rubber.  They are light, flexible and great for athletics.

Steve: Athletics?

Adam: Yes, it’s a new word.  It describes physical activities such as bi-cycling or fast-walking.

Martin: Well, why didn’t you just say fast-walking, man?!

Adam: My apologies.  Now, gentlemen, what shall we call this new type of footwear?

Martin: Perhaps ‘rubber soled footwearers’?

Adam: Good, good.  But I think we can do better.  Steve?  Anything?

Steve: Perhaps, ‘Adam Abbot’s Fashionable Atletikes Shoes for Upstanding Men of Position’?

Adam: Did you mean, “Athletics?”

Steve: Yes, whatever that newfangled word is.

Adam: Perhaps…
...]]> /article/1110104 http://www.collegehumor.com/article/1110104/how-it-happened How It Happened Wed, 30 May 2007 11:20:56 -0400 Year: 1999

Two T.V. executives walk into a dorm where 2 friends are hanging out in the common room, smoking and playing video games



T.V. Exec 1- What’s up guys?

Friend 1- Who are you?

T.V. Exec 2- We just came to hang out for a little.

Friend 2- (to T.V. Executive 1) Are you a cop?
...]]> /article/172420 http://www.collegehumor.com/article/172420/how-it-happened-the-movie-crank How It Happened: The Movie "Crank" Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:52:51 -0500 Pretty office secretary: Sir, there is a man here with an idea for a film.

Hotshot movie executive: Okay, send him in.

Hotshot movie executive: So, what is your idea?

Uninspired script writer: Alright, well basically…. it’s the movie Speed. But with humans.

Hotsho...]]> /article/165129 http://www.collegehumor.com/article/165129/how-it-happened-mind-of-mencia How It Happened: Mind of Mencia Fri, 03 Nov 2006 02:16:41 -0500 Hotshot TV executive #1: Well… I hoped I’d never have to say this but.. it looks like Dave Chappelle has bailed on us. Not even $50 mil could keep him around.

Hotshot TV executive #2: WHAT?! WHAT DO WE DO NOW??

Hotshot TV executive #1: Get a hold of yourself, Hotshot TV executive #2!! Keep it together!

Hotshot TV executive #2: No..no, WHERE IS MY NOOSE??

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