Brotherly Humor

Our two sons decided to have a reunion in Las Vegas, each taking a couple of their friends. Late one night, the “boys” were sitting around a table when an inebriated girl came up to them, followed by her friends. She spoke first to our older son.

“It’s my 21st birthday. You’re cute. Are you married?”
“Yes.” He tapped his wedding ring.
“But are you happily married?”
“Yes! But he isn’t.” With a sly smile, he pointed to his brother. She turned on him.
“So are you married?”
Honest son that he is, he answered, “No.”
The girl then asked, “But are you happily married?”
He thought about it for half a sec, then answered, “Yes!”
The girl moved on to another table.

Video Link Thursday

And for the last Thursday of National Humor Month, 2011, I give you The Rev. Billy Bob:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5EhFFlc66o

Fly in the Soup Day

(Personal note: Today, I’m in Grand Rapids, MI, leading two workshops at Calvin College’s Youth Writers Festival working with middle school and high school youth. The name of the two workshops? “Getting on Your Funny.” Guess what I’ll be talking/teaching about?)

And for our final Fly in the Soup joke during this year’s National Humor month, here is an example of Escape or Release humor.

Customer: Waiter, waiter! There’s a fly in my soup!
Waiter: Oh, thank goodness! I thought it might be that mouse again.

Funny Foto Tuesday

This is not my own photo, and admittedly, a bit on the crude side, but I couldn't resist including it this month to show different types of humor. For you Dr. Who fans, you will either love it or hate it. (Passed on to me by Scott Jefferies/ Bill Binns)

Store Sign Humor

At a local restaurant, they often advertise “Half Off Buffet.”

We just wonder which half is missing? The bottom half? The left half? Do they give out half plates? What?

National Humor Month -- Clean Jokes #5 & #6

Question: Where do rabbits go when they get married?
Answer: On their bunnymoon.

The name of a best-selling rabbit book: HAVING BIG FAMILIES by Y. Nott

Personal Story Funny

My mother had a heart attack. (That, actually, was not very funny.) As soon as I was contacted by phone, I threw clothing enough for four days into a bag and within ten minutes, was on the road. I made the four hour drive in a little over three hours. I arrived at 11:00 p.m., and was informed by an in-law that I couldn’t see my mother. Rebel that I was, I replied, HA!

I jumped back into the car and drove to the hospital. When I went into her ER room, she seemed to be sleeping. I didn’t say anything, but just stood over her. Suddenly her eyes popped open, and she cried out in surprise. That set off all sorts of alarms and whistles on her machines. The nurses to came rushing. They gave me threatening looks, while both my mother and I tried to stop laughing. Great, I thought. I’d come to comfort my Mom, and instead nearly killed her with a second heart attack.

When I got back to my parents’ apartment, I’d discovered that there wasn’t a single piece of clothing I’d thrown into my bag which matched anything else. Mother recovered, just fine, but I’m guessing the nurses are still talking about the mis-matched clown who tried to kill one of their patients in the middle of the night.

Funny Video Link Thursday

And for Peter and Amanda...

The "Talk"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCjMGOvMghY

Fly in the Soup Day

(Today’s joke is an example of Rationalization Humor.)

Customer: Waiter, waiter! There’s a fly in my soup!
Waiter: Now there’s a fly who knows good soup.

Funny Foto Tuesday

In honor of our son, John who came into this world laughing and continues to embrace the funny: A Funky Cactus.

Another Funny Road Sign

Near VanBuren State Park (MI), there is a big brown information sign along the road just before the Park. It reads: “Michigan Critical Dunes.” Is this a warning to all who enter that the sand dunes will criticize us or find things to complain about? (I wouldn't blame them.)

National Humor Month -- Clean Joke #4

(Apologies for the delay -- computer crashing....) Joke: What lies at the bottom of the ocean and shivers? A nervous wreck.

Another Family Funny

When bathing my infant son, he pointed to something in the tub and asked, “What dat?” From his previous experiences, there were occasionally brown floating things in the water, but this was not one of those. It was a bug. I said more for myself than in response to him: “shark.” The poor kid quickly scooted to the far end of the tub. I didn’t even know he knew the word. Maybe he didn’t, but in his little mind, that thing in the tub had a name, and he was getting away from it. (Bad, bad Mama!)

Video Day Link -- The Lama Song

Need I say more? Except... here it is...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMYN4djSq7o&feature=related

Fly in the Soup Joke Day

Today’s joke is an example of Miss-The-Main-Point humor. Customer: Waiter, waiter! There’s a fly in my soup! Waiter: Hey! What do you think I am? I’m a waiter, not a lifeguard.

French Creek Sign

Our family has always liked to hike. In the southern Black Hills of South Dakota, there's a trail which follows (and crosses numerous times) French Creek. At the trail head is this warning sign. Thing is, it does not even mention the fact that there are free roaming bison in the area, and that every year someone is gored. And, yes, we did hike a portion of this lengthy trail, backpacking in and spending the night.

Nite Crawlers

There is a restaurant south of Jackson, Michigan, called Nite Crawlers. They advertise a special Friday Night Fish Fry. How ironic is that... for those worms?

April Clean Joke #3

What do lawyers wear to court?

Lawsuits.

A Personal Funny

When I was 19 years old, I was a chaperone for 50 inner city high schoolers from Des Moines on a cultural trip to Minneapolis. It was a long drive. Most of them slept through the Shakespearean play. We stayed at a hotel. As the other female chaperone and I patrolled the halls after curfew, we smelled something funny. My partner recognized it as marijuana.

I knocked on the door from which the odor emanated. No answer. I knocked again, identifying who we were, and that they had better open up, RIGHT NOW. Still no answer. I pounded on the door, telling the occupants through the closed door that they had better stop what they were doing or the hotel would kick us all out in the middle of the night, to say nothing about getting arrested. It was late. Not a peep of a response. I didn’t feel like packing up and getting 50 sleepy kids back on a bus to another state. So we went to bed.

In the morning, I checked the roster of rooms where our people stayed. I was going to really chew those girls out for being so stupid. It was then that I discovered the room I pounded on in the night was not one of the rooms on our list of kids.

Video Link Day

Welcome to yet another day of National Humor Month.

I'm trying to remain disciplined. I really am. Last month I decided to have Thursdays be "share a video link" day for this bit of humor every day in April. Thing is, I really don't like opening forwarded links from friends. Some email me links only, and never even say "howdy." That being said, snatches of video are very common. SO, I gave in and will share at least one video link with you.

Because I learned how to type on an old-fashioned typewriter, when this clip first passed by my I could honestly relate to it.

A Senior Moment: http://www.myspace.com/video/vid/105171780

Fly In The Soup Day

There are MANY different types of humor. Just think about the variety of comic strips or political cartoons. Different types of humor tickle different people’s funny bones. On Wednesdays during National Humor Month, I’m going to give examples of a few specific types of humor. Today’s is conceit humor (i.e., relate things which are very different).

Funny Foto Tuesday

For National Humor Month, each Tuesday, I'm posting a photograph I took which amused me.

Here is a sidewalk going into the lake, warning all who come near. Geese, beware!

Advertisement Sign

Outside of Bangor, Michigan, there is a bowling alley. It’s called Lariat Bowling Alley with an image of a lasso on the sign. Having lived out west for many years, I pictured what cowboy bowling might look like: They’d swing their lariats over their heads and see how many pins they could rope in.

Clean Jokes #1 & #2

I've designated Saturdays during April as the day to share jokes I've heard. I’m going to break my discipline on day two of National Humor Month, by giving two jokes (v.s. one). Yay.

What do you get when you cross a dog with a frog? A croaker spaniel.

What do you get when you cross an adult with a moan? A groan-up.

A Family Funny

I don’t have a single funny thing to share today. APRIL FOOLS!

Time for a family story. When our family moved from wintery Buffalo, NY, to sunny Rapid City, SD, our one son was in 7th grade. Mind you, it does snow in the Black Hills, but usually just up north, and you have to do driving to look for it. In our 8 winters there, our street was only plowed four times. Although, solar snow removal and four-wheel drives were the norm.

Our son went three years just putting on a sweatshirt if it got cold enough to do so. But one week, the temperature stayed in the teens for several days. He finally agreed to wear a coat to school. He put it on. His arms stuck out from his elbows down.

BAD MAMA! He’d grown a lot in those three years, and because he never wore winter coats, bad mama hadn’t thought to buy him one. Bad Mama!!