There's a famous quote about analyzing humor, but as we know sometimes it has to be done. So here's a place to talk about humor, fight about laughter, or just comment about some of the funnier things you've seen on the web lately.
Has anything recently had you laughing out loud? I, for one, could use a good laugh.
Not really local, but it's such a grey and dreary day that I will allow it. This is not an open thread, folks. Instead, tell us what's making you laugh, as JACC suggested.
»» Submitted by»»»msparber at 12:26 PM on April 24
I wondered if it was local or not. I thought that addressing the humor issue was borderline as it started over a local event, but I would have understood had you denied the post. Thanks for allowing it.
I love physical humor. I like to do a "humping dance" for the wife where I make the most disgusting faces. I think I find her reactions funnier than she finds my dance.
We also randomly say to each other "Do a jig." and the other person must immediately break into a jig-type dance for at least 10 seconds.
Hilarity and laughter ensue...
»» Submitted by mb@work at 12:55 PM on April 24
Farting is always hilarious. Lately I've enjoyed watching people run into things unexpectedly. I also get a kick out of the idea of having a giant air convection gun that I can use to knock over bikers on the greenway. Kinda ties into that second thing.
»» Submitted by kevin at 12:56 PM on April 24
I just finished reading a book recommended by Grote, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman, and I laughed my ass off.
This weekend my 95 lbs dog took out my 40 lbs nephew. Since the kid is alright, I've been laughing at the image in my head all week.
Dog and boy, both running in the yard, collide. Dog keeps going, looking for his tennis ball, like nothing happened. Boy gets about 4 feet in the air and is completely horizontal. His shoes FLY off his feet and he comes down flat on his face. Ended up with a bloody nose, but nothing worse.
For awhile he kept saying "he did it on purpose, he was looking at my nose and came for me. He was looking at my nose." He did finally say it was an accident and him and the dog are friends now.
"Lately I've enjoyed watching people run into things unexpectedly."
Speaking of, I was walking out of Lyle's one night, obviously not drunk, when a rather attractive young female was walking in. I turned over my shoulder to, uh, look in her general direction, and in the process of doing so, I smacked my right cheek bone on the door jam. It didn't hurt too badly, but man was it loud.
For awhile he kept saying "he did it on purpose, he was looking at my nose and came for me. He was looking at my nose." He did finally say it was an accident and him and the dog are friends now.
THAT made me laugh!
Also, I still giggle to myself when I think about dougnuts.
»» Submitted by mb@work at 1:02 PM on April 24
I never thought Chuck Klosterman was that funny, but everyone else did. And to be honest, I haven't read anything by him since his sports columns in The Dakota Student.
Rex's column made me laugh my ass off, though. He should write a book.
Actually, the story "Big Boy" in Sedaris' book Me Talk Pretty One Day (or maybe Naked) sends me over the deep end every time...I crack up just talking about it.
I was just on the phone and the person on the other end of the line asked me "do you have it up?" I giggled.
»» Submitted by kevin at 1:11 PM on April 24
I'm reading Klosterman's IV right now, and it's pretty good. Just a collection of his articles over the years w/ a lot of background. Good to read on the plane.
»» Submitted by cubbie at 1:13 PM on April 24
Sedaris is insanely funny...except his last book left me a little flat.
I found this to be quite bizarre/hilarious. It's not laugh out loud, but I chuckled inside a lot....and then questioned myself for finding it humorous.
I really enjoy badly spelled or mis-punctuated things, like when my colleague Jeffrey somehow signed his email "Jewffrey."
And a subset of that is when things are misspelled in a potty humor way, like when the client forgot to add the 'l' to the word "public" in the title of his document.
Also I have 4-page list of headlines, all actually published. seen by me. Oh, and a list of 240+ funny names.
»» Submitted by jane_ at 1:55 PM on April 24
My wife just got tix to see him in Oct.
I haven't even read his stuff yet and I wanted to go.
HA! I screwed up my own punctuation! I crack me up.
»» Submitted by jane_ at 1:56 PM on April 24
And a subset of that is when things are misspelled in a potty humor way
Recently I heard someone call pubic hair, "public hair". That was pretty funny. If it's public and you're wearing clothes it may be time for a shave. Or braid.
My experience with that site is that they don't know what passive aggressive means. Most of the notes are just mundane "stop being such a douchebag" style notes. There's nothing especially aggressive about them.
Well regardless of how "aggressive" they really are, some are pretty funny. Especially if you work in an office setting. Agree to disagree.
»» Submitted by marie at 2:15 PM on April 24
I'm presently participating in a game with some friends in which we write a 6 word story. This concept has been around awhile - perhaps a good Open Thread?
But here are a few that my friends wrote this morning that made me laugh out loud:
Note to self: burn those panties.
Julia's fornication notwithstanding, the afternoon slowed.
What the- Oh wait: Kimchi anyone?
Those made me laugh out loud. And they're really local.
If I don't hear something right, I'll always repeat back the closest possible approximation of what I thought I heard, because it's funnier that just saying "What?"
I like unintentional slip-ups. For instance, once I was ordering a Diet Coke from a VERY attractive young man at a sporting event. Apparently I was thinking about something else because I ordered a Diet Cock.
»» Submitted by mb@work at 3:49 PM on April 24
definitely 30 Rock
it's the one show that I laugh out loud watching... and it's on tonight!
»» Submitted by TJ at 3:53 PM on April 24
"If I don't hear something right, I'll always repeat back the closest possible approximation of what I thought I heard"
I'll say something totally ludicrous. I do this atleast once a day to the wife.
This has me laughing right now: Previous studies using mitochondrial DNA, which is passed down through mothers, have traced modern humans to a single "mitochondrial Eve," who lived in Africa about 200,000 years ago.
Because it means my dad f*cked your mom!
»» Submitted by kevin at 4:12 PM on April 24
And we're all inbred bastard children.
»» Submitted by tinnie at 4:14 PM on April 24
Because it means my dad f*cked your mom!
Or his mom.
I can usually count on my grandma to say something ridiculous to make me laugh. She always inadvertently refers to "Barack Obama" as "Osama." And Russ Feingold is "Seinfeld."
»» Submitted by marie at 4:42 PM on April 24
I have to admit the prior "public hair" comment I mentioned was something my grandma said.
Re: Farting - My farts smell like platinum and victory.
I dunno what's funny. (Hello.) Voices inside my mind are annoying... (No, I'm not!) ...but they do have some good Ideas about the funny stuff.(Really I do?) Sometimes. (Cool.) Whatever. You know, if you have voices in your mind you are not crazy, you are only crazy if you have fought with them, and lost. (Which you have.) HEY! Anyways, got any ideas? (Uh...) Come on! Said you did so hurry up! (Uh... I don't remeber.) Alot of good you do.
»» Submitted by Me Myself and I at 5:52 PM on May 12
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