October 31, 2009 at 4:04 pm (Humor)
Tags: criggo, Humor, newspapers
I love it when I stumble across blogs that are dedicated to the ridiculous in life. Being ridiculous myself, it’s nice to know I have company. Today I stumbled across a blog that does nothing but scan and post funny things found in newspapers. I laughed out loud at several of them, (and yes, Elizabeth, I thought of you and your former newspaper career) but this is my favorite. I think when you read it you’ll know why.
July 26, 2009 at 4:24 pm (Humor)
Tags: flavanoids, flavor flave, Humor
Our tea bag box advertises the flavanoids in tea. Every time I see the word, it makes me think that if Flavor Flave bought Best Buy, he’d re-name the Geek Squad the “Flava Noids”.
Just the sort of things that run through my mind daily.
May 30, 2009 at 7:58 am (Humor, Just Life)
Tags: Humor, voice mail, wrong number
My husband doesn’t check his cell phone voice mail. He just doesn’t. If you call his phone and he doesn’t answer, just call mine, a message will be pointless. I have a story to illustrate this point.
Yesterday evening around supper time, Jonathan came to me and asked “How do I check my messages?” which should tell you right there how often he does it. The only reason he was checking them was because he saw that someone from Covenant Seminary had called, and he thought that might be important. He dialed his voice mail and walked away and I continued with supper preparations. Moments later he came back into the kitchen, handing me the phone with a quizzical look on his face.
“Listen to this message, and tell me who this is,” he said.
The caller clearly identified himself by name – my oldest nephew’s name – and referred to my husband as Uncle Jonathan, as would be appropriate. I wondered where the confusion came in, until I heard the rest of the message:
“Guess what? My mom is pregnant. She knows for sure because she took two pregnancy tests. Pretty cool, huh?”
The message was dated May 11th.
I was pretty sure that my sister would have mentioned something of this magnitude to me in the three conversations I had with her since May 11th. After conferring, we decided that someone had put my nephew up to playing a prank on his Uncle Jonathan. It was the only conclusion we could reach.
To confirm our theory Jonathan called my sister. She was speechless. So was her son. My nephew, identified so clearly by name on the message, had never left a message for his Uncle Jonathan. Now we were getting a little freaked out, so I checked his call log. On May 11th he had two missed calls from a local number – clearly the source of the message – but it also showed a completed call to the same number.
“You called this number back.” I said.
That was when the realization crossed his face. He remembered his phone ringing the last week of school, and when he called them back, the woman who answered apologized profusely.
“My son was trying to call his Uncle Jonathan,” she said, “and he got your number by mistake.” What she didn’t tell him, because she couldn’t have known, was that her son had the same name as our oldest nephew, and a similar voice, and was clearly close in age. The message was a wrong number, with so many of the right facts that two weeks later when Jonathan decided to check his messages, we were completely dumbfounded by it.
What are the odds?
May 7, 2009 at 6:55 am (Humor, Mackerdoodle)
Tags: amen, Mackerdoodle, talking toddler
Now that the mackerdoodle is communicating more effectively every day, we are having some very entertaining “discussions” in our house. She has quirky little mannerisms that we have a hard time not incorporating into our own language. For instance: she’s fascinated with letters and words. She calls them “A-Bs”. It makes sense, doesn’t it? The song “Old McDonald” is “eye-eye”, cars are beep-beeps, meals are num, or, if she’s really hungry, numeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
But one of the things she says fairly clearly is “amen.” It comes out a little like an old Rabbi: “ahmeen,” but she says it after every prayer at meals and family worship and staff devotions at school. Because we sing the doxology every night to finish our family worship, she will also often use it to end her made up little songs (lyrics like: “a b a b i i i i la la ahmeen”).
Wednesday morning we were listening to a sermon about marriage on the way to school. The preacher made the point that when we walk away from difficult things and times, we are often short circuiting God’s act of sanctification in our lives. I patted Jonathan on the shoulder and said “That’s how you should think of me, dear. I’m a big old helping of super concentrated sanctification.”
Before Jonathan could respond, the mackerdoodle chimed in from the back seat.
“Ahhhhhhhhmeeen.”
April 25, 2009 at 2:44 pm (Humor)
Tags: arrogant worms, Humor
I thought this might make you all chuckle. It makes me laugh every time I hear it.
April 1, 2009 at 12:04 pm (Humor)
Tags: April Fool's Day
Well, it’s no April Fool’s Joke for me. I heard the official news today that I DON’T have gestational diabetes! HOORAY.
To commemorate the day and the good news, here are some April Fool’s Pranks that make me laugh. You can read all 100 pranks at that link, but my favorites are:
The Taco Liberty Bell
1996: The Taco Bell Corporation announced it had bought the Liberty Bell and was renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell. Hundreds of outraged citizens called the National Historic Park in Philadelphia where the bell was housed to express their anger. Their nerves were only calmed when Taco Bell revealed, a few hours later, that it was all a practical joke. The best line of the day came when White House press secretary Mike McCurry was asked about the sale. Thinking on his feet, he responded that the Lincoln Memorial had also been sold. It would now be known, he said, as the Ford Lincoln Mercury Memorial.
The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
1957: The respected BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. It accompanied this announcement with footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from trees. Huge numbers of viewers were taken in. Many called the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree. To this the BBC diplomatically replied, “place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best.”
Alabama Changes the Value of Pi
1998: The April 1998 issue of the New Mexicans for Science and Reason newsletter contained an article claiming that the Alabama state legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi from 3.14159 to the ‘Biblical value’ of 3.0. Soon the article made its way onto the internet, and then it rapidly spread around the world, forwarded by email. It only became apparent how far the article had spread when the Alabama legislature began receiving hundreds of calls from people protesting the legislation. The original article, which was intended as a parody of legislative attempts to circumscribe the teaching of evolution, was written by physicist Mark Boslough.
The Sydney Iceberg
1978: A barge appeared in Sydney Harbor towing a giant iceberg. Sydneysiders were expecting it. Dick Smith, a local adventurer and millionaire businessman (owner of Dick Smith’s Foods), had been loudly promoting his scheme to tow an iceberg from Antarctica for quite some time. Now he had apparently succeeded. He said that he was going to carve the berg into small ice cubes, which he would sell to the public for ten cents each. These well-traveled cubes, fresh from the pure waters of Antarctica, were promised to improve the flavor of any drink they cooled. Slowly the iceberg made its way into the harbor. Local radio stations provided excited blow-by-blow coverage of the scene. Only when the berg was well into the harbor was its secret revealed. It started to rain, and the firefighting foam and shaving cream that the berg was really made of washed away, uncovering the white plastic sheets beneath.
March 11, 2009 at 8:13 am (Humor)
Tags: Between the Lions, grammar, homophones
Here is a great video about homophones. Who knew words that sound the same but aren’t spelled the same could be so entertaining?
February 14, 2009 at 6:57 am (Humor, Love and Marriage)
Tags: despair.com, romance, valentine's day
January 29, 2009 at 6:47 am (Humor)
Tags: phone messages
I don’t usually go for jokes that make fun of men, because I think we should honor our men. But this made me laugh. My friend Sherri sent it to me under the title “Why we don’t let men take phone messages.” and I think we can all identify with this – even the men.
December 30, 2008 at 10:28 pm (Humor)
Tags: calvinist, funny video
Last night in a discussion with my parents, Jonathan said “Can I quote Spurgeon?” I responded “I love Spurgeon!”
This morning Jawan posted this video, and after laughing at the chorus, I knew I had to share it with you. You’ll either totally get it and laugh and laugh, or you’ll think “huh?”
The guy who wrote it has a blog which you can find by clicking here. He’s being added to my list of people I’d like to have sit in my living room.
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