Funny

Disclaimer--I don't know if I'm right about this "funny stuff". Or maybe I'm just funny in the head. Maybe I'm half right. I don't know about you, but half right is about par for the course for me.  Sooooo relax and try to figure out which half is right!!!

FunnyFred (i.e. use to be FastFreddy) emailed me and suggested that I try to do better.  He said--Your writings are half baked thoughts with a few lame jokes and scurrilous slurs.  I might suggest FunnyFred (i.e. who now is just HandyFred) that you mind your own business!!!!! You get what you pay for!

MN-Mary (i.e. anybody can be a Mary) sent me this--Berzzy Berzzy in MN.  Minnesota has issued a travel advisory due to snowfall and bad road conditions.  They suggest that anyone travelling in icy conditions should make sure they have the following: Shovel, blankets or sleeping bad, extra clothing including hat and gloves, 24 hours worth of food, de-icer, rock salt, flashlight with spare batteries, road flares or reflective triangles, full gas tank/can, first aid kit, and booster cables.....I looked like an idiot on the bus this morning!! 

Some folks have funny footprints! MissPerfect says--Talk is cheap but it takes money to buy whiskey! I was running on the Bear Creek Trail when in Colorado. Recently it snowed 14 inches. They clear this trail. You can tell a lot about a person's recent past life by their recent footprints in their life. Just like you can tell about how folks run by their footprints in the snow.  Some run with long strides, some with short strides, some with their toes straight ahead, some are pigeon toed, and some are duck toed, and others I just don't know about! Their recent footprints don't lie folks. BatmanRoy has a Masters in Disasters; follow his footprints and you'll probably know what you are going to get. And that ain't funny folks. Such is life.

Some folks are just funny! And some folks think they are funny but really are not. It's probably good to know that you are not funny when you think you are (i.e. those folks that don't know they aren't funny but think they are, are funny to me). Sometimes people laugh at something someone says to just be nice. But it isn't funny. It's not funny at all, really. They are just accommodating them (i.e. like a speaker who isn't funny but thinks he is) and folks laugh politely.  Other times you can't stop from laughing because the other person is so funny. Some folks can tell stories much better than other (i.e. much funnier). Such is life.

This was funny to me! Some things that happen in our lives just make us laugh--you just can't make them happen; they just happen (i.e. they just lift my spirits).  When traveling back from Denver to AZ last Sunday, I was standing at the baggage claim carousel waiting for our suitcase.  A maybe 19 year old pretty little gal charges up to my right and grabs her suitcase.  As she was pulling it off the carousel, the outside pocket of her suitcase opened and all her brightly colored bikini panties fell out.  Some fell to the floor and maybe 5 fell on the carousel which just kept going.  I ran along the carousel and picked them up and brought them back to her. There I was with 5 brightly colored bikini panties in my hand. I was laughing. She thanked me and told me that she was returning from CO Springs to Grand Canyon University.  I think she was telling me that they were clean, maybe.  It didn't bother her a bit. What a hoot!  

So who is the funniest person you know? Who is the person that just makes you laugh. They just lift your spirits. And they don't even know it! I am not talking about people who are goofy, but people are funny. I mean really funny! Goofy folks make me laugh toooooo.  Some folks are just naturally goofy.  They don't have to try.  But they make me laugh.  

CaptainChet was making faces at LittleJimmer.  Jimmer said--You're funny! Some people can laugh at themselves and some people cannot. Some people like to laugh and some people never laugh. And then there are some people who are just funny looking! It's funny how this all works out isn't it. Joesixpack says--That's funny! Life is funny--or at least, I think it should be. LuckieEddie says--If you can find humor in everyday things, it's a gift. Humor at very stressful times is sooooooo refreshing. Abraham Lincoln used humor to relieve stress.When Ohio Congressman James Ashey disapproved of a story Abraham Lincoln had just told, the President responded: “Ashley, I have great confidence in you and great respect for you, and I know how sincere you are. But if I couldn’t tell these stories, I would die.” On another occasion the President prefaced a discussion of the draft Emancipation Proclamation by reading aloud from a favorite humorist. In response to the disapproval of some members of his cabinet, Mr. Lincoln said: “Gentlemen, why don’t you laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.” I asked Siri for a joke about Alzheimer's. She said she couldn't remember any!

3.5 pounds  Weight of the "Big Game Burger" to be served at Lambeau Field when the Packers host the Cowboys tomorrow.  The $20 sandwich has venison, beef, jalapeno bacon, crispy fried onions, pickles and tomatoes on a pretzel bun.  Now that is funny to me! Folks love their forks!

ItchieBitchie says--Laughter is internal jogging.  Folks who laugh, think better and feel better and have better health.  They are much more fun to be around tooooo (i.e. my opinion). MissPerfect says--That's funny that you say that ItchieBitchie, 'cause I just heard someone else say the same thing.  That's funny!

Pssst! I read in the paper soooooo it must be right--We can't cure children's diseases overnight.  But we can make this boy smile, and it has an immediate impact and outcome. Huh, interesting.  When in business, I tried to make everyone who left our office happier than when they came in.  Our support staff was very good at this as well (i.e. some very good gals).  Some times it was hard but we tried.  Some folks just weren't very happy for many different reasons.  The hardest folks to make smile were the terminally unhappy folks.  They were tough nuts to crack. A pickleball buddy Kathy (i.e. anybody can be a Kathy) says--Skies are always bluer when there is humor (i.e. happiness)!  She displays such an attitude (i.e. my kind of person).  Joesixpack says--Humor optimises life.

You might wonder if we are "funny in the head"!  No no, we are just tough nuts!  I guided these Sherpas on a night hike up 'er in 'em mountains last night.  What a good time.  A lot of laughing and joking.  Ya just don't do this in IA.  Why not?  I guess folks just don't for all  kinds of reasons.  It's fun to be different and do something different.  It's sooooo easy to sit on the couch and eat chips. Doing fun things with good folks with good hearts (i.e. my kind of folks) lifts a person's spirits.  Good stuff! No mountain lions or rattle snakes--All Sherpas returned save!!! Just another day at the office--what a hoot!  

WorldClassLarry says--When we look back after some time about many things that seemed sooooo upsetting at the time, we laugh.  After some time much of the stuff is funny. Sooooooo why not say to yourself--Some day we are going to laugh about this--why wait, laugh now! 

Our grand kids each have their moments when they are funny in their own way (i.e. not any different than any of your grand kids).  They all have their moments.  Erin has soooo much energy and is sooooo active.  She is funny and she makes me laugh during those moments.  Charlie asks such interesting questions and says some funny stuff.  She is funny and makes me laugh during those moments.  LittleJimmer has the funniest expressions and actions.  He is funny and makes me laugh.  Rookie has funny facial expressions (i.e. much like his daddy when he was a little boy).  He also has a pat answer if you ask him a direct question--NO, no not, or I don't want to.  He is funny and makes me laugh.  BUT they all have their moments when they aren't sooooo funny and don't make me laugh. But, even during those "not soooo funny moments", they make me laugh 'cause I'm going home in a day or so.  Such is life.  

We have had a few cold night here in the desert.  A couple down the street in our 55+ community had a lot of potted plants. During that recent cold spell, the wife was bringing a lot of them indoors to protect them from a possible freeze. It turned out that a little green garden grass snake was hidden in one of the plants and when it had warmed up, it slithered out and the wife saw it go under the sofa. She let out a very loud scream! The husband (who was taking a shower) ran out into the living room naked to see what the problem was. She told him there was a snake under the sofa. He got down on the floor on his hands and knees to look for it. About that time the family dog came and cold-nosed him on the behind. He thought the snake had bitten him, so he screamed and fell over on the floor. His wife thought he had a heart attack, so she covered him up, told him to lie still and called an ambulance. The attendants rushed in, wouldn't listen to his protests and loaded him on the stretcher and started carrying him out. About that time the snake came out from under the sofa and the Emergency Medical Technician saw it and dropped his end of the stretcher. That's when the man broke his leg and why he is still in the hospital. The wife still had the problem of the snake in the house, so she called on a neighbor man. He volunteered to capture the snake. He armed himself with a rolled-up newspaper and began poking under the couch. Soon he decided it was gone and told the woman, who sat down on the sofa in relief. But while relaxing, her hand dangled in between the cushions, where she felt the snake wriggling around. She screamed and fainted, the snake rushed back under the sofa. The neighbor man, seeing her lying there passed out, tried to use CPR to revive her. The neighbor's wife, who had just returned from shopping at the grocery store, saw her husband's mouth on the woman's mouth and slammed her husband in the back of the head with a bag of canned goods, knocking him out and cutting his scalp to a point where it needed stitches. The noise woke the woman from her dead faint and she saw her neighbor lying on the floor with his wife bending over him, so she assumed that he had been bitten by the snake. She went to the kitchen and got a small bottle of whiskey, and began pouring it down the man's throat. By now the police had arrived. They saw the unconscious man, smelled the whiskey, and assumed that a drunken fight had occurred. They were about to arrest them all, when the women tried to explain how it all happened over a little green snake. The police called an ambulance, which took away the neighbor and his sobbing wife. The little snake again crawled out from under the sofa. One of the policemen drew his gun and fired at it. He missed the snake and hit the leg of the end table. The table fell over and the lamp on it shattered and as the bulb broke it started a fire in the drapes. The other policeman tried to beat out the flames, and fell through the window into the yard on top of the family dog who startled, jumped out and raced into the street, where an oncoming car swerved to avoid it and smashed into the parked police car. Meanwhile, the burning drapes were seen by the neighbors who called the fire department. The firemen had started raising the fire truck ladder when they were halfway down the street. The rising ladder tore out the overhead wires and put out the electricity and disconnected the telephones in a ten-square city block area (but they did get the house fire out). Time passed! Both men were discharged from the hospital, the house was repaired, the dog came home, the police acquired a new car, and all was right with their world. A while later they were watching TV and the weatherman announced a cold snap for that night. The wife asked her husband if he thought they should bring in their plants for the night.

Have a FUN day my friends unless you have other plans. (-:

erv

MyFriendJean says--Happiness was made to be shared.