O.K. Now that I read Ray's response to the sneezing thread, I about spit carrots all over the place. So what's your worst laughing experience? I have a habit if I laugh really hard that it comes out as a wheeze. You know like Mutley on Wacky Racers? My family will even say "Cool, that was a good one, she did the Mutley." They're so kind.
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I used to get the giggles as a kid but don't have much trouble any more. I really struggled a couple years ago, when our pastor was using an interesting illustration in his sermon. He was talking about a method used to catch monkeys. He said they use a container just the right size and put nuts in it. The monkeys come grab the nuts in their fist and then can't get their hands out. They won't let go of the nuts. The illustration is how we sometimes have our favorite things that we won't let go even though they get us in trouble or keep us in bondage.
It was a good point, but he kept talking about "grabbing the monkey nuts and won't let go". Over and over he kept referring to "grabbing monkey nuts" and "holding on to monkey nuts". Many of us were looking around at each other just about ready to bust. No one broke that I heard, but it was really tough.
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i can't beleive no one laughed at that monkey nuts.
Mine is that there are three of us in here (well 4 but one is in her own area) and two of us talk on email and the 3rd is clueless. sometimes i start laughing about something we emailed and i can't stop and it is worse because the left out one has no idea what i'm laughing about. we're just working in silence and then i die laughing and it is really funny.
We were sitting in a truck stop diner after a full day of fishing and camping, we were all exhausted when someone said something really funny( I couldn't even tell you what it was) but we were laughing so hard we all had tears. the waitress came over to ask if we were allright because we were all crying. Now everytime we laugh that hard we call it a truck stop fit.
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Sometimes, when i'm lonely... i crawl into a laundry basket and tickle my ears. But, Some times I don't...
Oh, Star, don't let that stop you! I never do. Every now and then something hits me as funny and I let out a loud bark of laughter. I do not have a ladylike laugh. I have never been one of those people that hides my emotions well (I mean, I can, but I choose not to), so I let it all hang out. I would have lost it in church if someone had said something about monkey nuts. Talking about church stories...
We went to Easter mass one year and it was really crowded and we had to sit in the balcony. We had this visiting missionary priest that was really bizarre. Anyway, he's asking us if we agree with what he's saying in his homily (sermon) and we're all shaking our heads yes. But that wasn't good enough. He says "Then you should be jumping up and down and yelling Hallelujah!" He doesn't know the Catholics very well where I live. They would never do that and they're looking at him like he's some kind of alien. Then he just opens his hand and smacks himself in the forehead and I couldn't tell you what he said after that because I was trying so hard to keep the laughter in that I was crying. There is this priest in front of our congregation acting totally non-catholic (as far as behavior goes) and he has this huge hand print in the middle of his forehead from smacking himself. My husband (who is a silent laugher) is over there just shaking and I'm trying to find an exit from the balcony. Even now, that story has the ability to make me laugh.
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Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you do criticize them you will be a mile away and have their shoes.
A lot of times that will happen to me where I find something funnier than everyone else. For example did you see that BK commercial where the guy goes "I'm spicey" in a high pitched voice. We had spicey food one night and I started doing that and cracking up. They just looked at me like I was nuts. Well, that's another story but c'mon that's good humor!!
I can SO identify with that, Star. My daughter saw that commercial and thought it was funny, so she would strike a pose (she's 5 now, mind you) and say "I'm spicy!" in the weirdest of places. Wal-mart check out lines were one of her favorite places to do that, but it could happen at any given time. We get a lot of weird looks from strangers. She's 5 going on 15.
Last night after I gave her her bath, she said something to me and started laughing, I can't even remember what it was, but I told her that wasn't funny and she shouldn't be saying that and she says (her face all serious and her eyes wide) "But mommy, I'm laughing WITH you, not AT you." The stuff that girl comes up with.
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Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you do criticize them you will be a mile away and have their shoes.
When our son was just a toddler, we gave him a couple remote controls from a dead tv and VCR that were gone. This way he has his own remote and was happy with that. He's now 4-1/2 and the other day he walked by me with one of them in his hand and said:
"This remote is for my TV.org"
I was so proud!
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My wife and I were visiting my In-Laws in rural IL and decided to go to a movie with some Chicago friends who were living in Champaign. We drove to Amboy to catch "Robin Hood, Men In Tights" and we were the only four people laughing! I asked my wife what the deal was and all she could say was that country folk just didn't get it.
Our kids and us also drop lines that get us cracking up, usually from our favorite cartoons. "Foster's Home for Imagenary Friends" has proven to be a goldmine of funny lines. Problem is, being a family of hams, we usually to the whole scene.
My friends and I occassionally use the spicey line. Of course, once you do it, everyone at the table must do it. Kind of like Spartacus. I am Spartcus!
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My daughter is always coming up with something. We just shake our heads and say "that girl is something else". We haven't figured it out yet, but she's something else. She's a fashion diva drama queen. And if it isn't something she does, it's how she says something. She spends a lot of time with my mom, who is German-born, so she has picked up a little bit of my mom's accent. It's so bizarre. She says "just" like its "shust" and "ploblem" instead of "problem". It's just funny. She is my handful child and if she had been born first, she would have been an only child. She's spicey!
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