But technology is also turning us into a global water-cooler culture, with millions of people sending each other (via e-mail, text messages, tweets, YouTube links) gossip, rumors and the sort of amusing-entertaining-weird anecdotes and photographs they might once have shared with pals over a coffee break.
Unsurprisingly, we refer to people as "funny" when they are entertaining or weird -- and it is probably impossible to be entertaining to some without being weird to others.
We'll be exploring the most interesting, unusual, and hilarious facets of Latin literature on a quest to highlight just how entertaining and weird the Romans really were.
Still, Maugham's story is eminently entertaining, a weird mixture of Horatio Alger and Noel Coward, and it does no harm to hear it again.
How could we have known, at the beginning of a totally entertaining and slightly weird night, that Ms. Carey's clichés would come true, right there onstage?
His banter is weird, entertaining and unsettling with an edge sharp enough to slice onions.
A Guardian journalist said it was "rather more entertaining" and "no weirder" than anything else that happens in Parliament these days.
Here are 10 of the biggest stories from an undeniably weird but entertaining year in the NHL.
Part of what makes "Hanna" weird and entertaining as well as food if not nourishment for thought, is that the body looks so young: Not 12, but not 16, either, which adds an outré touch to the sight of Hanna taking down a deer and soon after, a human being.
What makes me optimistic about the current state of TV is that there are so many solid performers that do a lot of very different weird and entertaining things.
