What tickles your funny bone? How often is it that other people are tickled too, and how often is it a unique trigger for you?
I came across this quote this week, and it makes me laugh every time I think of it:
The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and insignificant is energy.”
—-Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
I’m sure the quote wasn’t meant to be funny, and that most people in the world wouldn’t have my reaction. But there it is. It makes me laugh. Probably because I’m still regaining my energy from the virus I had a while back. It’s going well, just Mood and Energy Management 101, plus eating and sleeping well, getting appropriate exercise every day, and feeding my sense of humor with movies and reading. Yes, it’s going well, but the idea of having the kind of energy Buxton is talking about is laughable. 😀
So much for private jokes. The other thing that cracked me up this week made Andy laugh too. A TV channel had a lot of sleazy lawyer ads. “Did you take XXX and have any of the following side effects? Let us help you.” Then one ad showed a sad young lady holding up a bandaged finger. She said, “They shouldn’t make paper so sharp. Someone has to pay.” A lawyer in the background said, “If you have been injured, we can help. But you really have to be injured.” As luck would have it I had a paper cut, so from time to time I hold it up to show Andy and say, “Don’t forget, someone has to pay.”
It works for us. What makes you laugh?
http://www.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.235372.1243574086%21menu/standard/file/ny-walt-baby-boomers.swf
Never mind. It’s not good without the music. The 1st time I tried the link HERE there was music. The next time–no sound???
bikehikebabe,
The sound works for me, but the cartoon is way too energetic for me right now. 😀
For me it is the absurd and silly – the Goon Show (an old BBC radio show) and P G Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster stories.
Life.
Is this synchronicity?
Just now I called a Dawn Marie… I told her my middle name is Marie also. AND my mother’s name is Marie. I have a daughter Marie & 2 granddaughter’s with middle name Marie. Her mother & daughter’s names are Marie too!!! (No grandchildren yet)
I can make this comment longer too, about her 1st name Dawn. My next door neighbor’s daughter-in-law is Dawn Jones. (Jones is my maiden name.) Dawn was my horse–Jones being horses’ last name 😀 A Dawn Jones is a Foodnerd in my foodnerd group. That’s 3 Dawn Joneses.
There’s more about Cynthia Jones, next door– which is my maiden name, & astounding repeats of names there, but I’ll spare you.
Evan,
Anything that makes us laugh is a great resource, isn’t it?
Rummuser,
Agreed.
bikehikebabe,
That tickles my funny bone too. Thank you!
Kate,
Thanks for the jokes.
I can’t say that I’ve beaten the bug, it’s just not ruining my quality of life because I don’t have much that has to be done. My heart goes out to Steve, our architect. We’re having a meeting with him tomorrow but aren’t expecting him to do much for a while. He got the bug slightly before I did and is way behind on some projects because he just doesn’t have the energy he needs.
I’m very glad to see that you beat the bug without, uh, the ‘”chemicals”, Jean.
>Mood and Energy Management 101
– Wow. I practise some of these, which is why I get weird looks at times when I talk about life in general, and hiccoughs in life in particular. Now I feel even better for thinking the way I do. 🙂
Rammuser, I would love to agree with you, but I’m still learning how to look for the lesson that lurks within the bump in life every time it surfaces.
>Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.
—Robert Frost
– On the head, Mr.Frost. Thanks for adding that here, Jean.
Here’s a joke I read yesterday that made me smile.
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A college student delivered pizza to a regular customer’s house. The guy who answered the door asked him, “What is the usual tip?”
“Well,” replied the youth, “this is my first trip here, but the other guys say if I get a quarter out of you, I’ll be doing great.”
“Is that so?” snorted the man. “Well, just to show them how wrong they are, here’s five dollars.”
“Thanks!” replied the youth, “I’ll put this in my school fund.”
“What are you studying?” asked the man.
The lad smiled and said, “Applied psychology.”
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This next short one made me smile and explode a little.
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If you’re worried about cell phone microwaves, stick a piece of popcorn in your ear. When it pops, it’s time to hang up.
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Often, jokes teach us what NOT to do. 🙂
Kate
it depends…
sorry I’m all out of laugh out loud things right now…and don’t send me any!
just having a bit a of a tough time with certain parts of my life where the laughing at the antics must remain right inside my head/mind (yes I know we don’t technically have an organ: mind)
Cathy,
Good luck! Please let us know how it goes.
It’s hard to define humour, it just hits you sometimes. I know a man who lives near me who happens to speak really bad English but he thinks he’s fluent. He thinks he’s impressing me no end (being a native English speaker) and keeps on saying in my presence ‘you will never think I was not in the English school,’ using really bad grammar. I don’t mean to laugh at him but sometimes I just can’t help it.
Maria, my daughter who lives in Sweden, told me “Remember, you don’t speak English, you speak American.”
I’ve listened to my 3rd Irish book in a row. (Maria is Irish.) The readers don’t sound weird anymore. lol They sound normal. In fact I’m starting to talk like that.
Maria,
I agree, the things that really tickle us are often individual. I find the more I pay attention, the more I lighten up. It helps a lot.
bikehikebabe,
I might have to try that. 🙂
i’m amazed that i find life so funny on a daily basis.
i seem to laugh at the things most people don’t even notice. human nature mostly. and lots of laughs at my own foibles.
and animals always can make me laugh. i love all animals.
i enjoyed kate’s jokes, but can never remember a joke. and i am terrible at telling them. i don’t like stand-up comics, nor do i like the “humor” that passes itself off in those sit-coms that put each other down. stupid.
i like dry wit. (my brother’s style). alas, i am a bumbler wit i think. i laugh with others when they laugh, so they won’t laugh at me alone!
great post monk. and sorry… i seem to have written another book here. someday must publish all these profound thoughts. 🙂
bhb… what a neat way to learn a dialect! i love that!
i do a passable british. and sometimes i can sound like a little old yiddish man. but i have to be in the mood. hahahaha.
or is it that i look like a little old yiddish man? can never remember!
love to all,
tammy j
hey dear little monk,
i ready on rummy’s blog that you’re still not feeling all that well from the dreadful virus you had.
do take care… i don’t mean to be a fear monger, but my dad had the asian flu in 1963 and we think now that it weakened his heart. he was in fine shape and was only 45. he was hospitalized with it, but then came out and went back to his regular schedule the next day and it proved too much. he died of a massive heart attack a week later. not saying the flu caused it, but it couldn’t have helped. i think it killed many people that year. i believe it was also called the hong kong flu.
you said you’re staying hydrated and taking it slowly. but oh, please do! i know you are not one to rest, rest, rest. especially with so much you have to do with the house and all.
it may take a while to get your strength really back.
love and get well in-all-good-time wishes!
tammy j
Now I’ll be sure to get my flu shots even tho’ I read bad things about them. Reading is confusing. Better not to read. Haha
tammy,
Yes, a sense of humor is a great blessing!
Don’t worry, I am taking it easy. Thanks to you Wilf is my hero and role model. 🙂 Also I’m just about done with my part of the decisions on the house. Anything else will just have to wait. See tonight’s post.
I’m so sorry about your father.
bikehikebabe,
Andy and I get our flu shots every year.