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What Makes You Laugh?
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I wanna know what makes you cackle, what makes you crow, what makes you titter -- what makes you laugh. (Besides being tickled, but if you will ...) Here's what makes me laugh:
-Somebody messing up in their speech (like saying "I want to cow to the mall" )
-Elton John dressed up as Donald Duck. Correction: ANYONE dressed up as Donald Duck!
-Frizzy hair
-Homemade buns that look like bums
-When reporters screw up on air (or you hear people cursing in the background)
-When kids outsmart their parents
-People reading those self-help books (I think I'll write a book called: "The Self-help Book For People Who Read Self-help Books" )
-Watching my mother trying to play "Mario Brothers" on that old Nintendo
-Men shaving their hair off to look cool, while others spend a fortune trying to keep it on
-When someone accidently farts while laughing
Posted By:  Jdogg Nov 24, 2004 - 01:52 am |       | Plucking eyebrows and then drawing them back on again.
Hiding embarrassing mistakes in business. As a salesman, for example, I told the customer one day that I will deliver the goods to her home on Monday evening next week. When Monday came that week I forgot to deliver her order. The next day, Tuesday - instead of telling the truth at first that I forgot to deliver on Monday - I said to her that the order is ready to deliver today. The customer surprised by what I said thought someone, like husband, wife or son, was on the phone and told me to deliver the order on Tuesday because customer had to visit sick mother at the hospital or whatever excuse. Then later I said to the customer, "Oh, I forgot that your order was supposed to be delivered on Monday." She thought I was not telling the - who answered the salesman on the phone on Monday? - truth.
| Posted By: Magus Nov 24, 2004 - 11:41 am | | What makes me laugh?...
This really stupid girl who sits behind me in Chemistry. How she ever got there is anybody's guess.
Certain sitcoms ("Seinfeld", "Simpsons", "Friends", "Yes, Dear", "The Andy Griffith Show", "The Dick Van Dike Show" )
My Brother (Oh, the things that come out of his mouth...)
Certain Comedians (Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby, Ellen DeGeneres)
Comedy Improv ("Whose Line is it Anyway?" both British and American versions,)
British Humor ("Tales of the Blode", Monty Python, "Potter Puppet Pals" )
WWW.HomestarRunner.com ("Strong Bad E-Mails", "Teen Girl Squad", "Fhqwhads" )
Misc. Things (You don't wanna know what's under this category)
ok, sit back and be ready for my beasty list.
- our A.M.T. teacher and the stupid things he says that can be taken in SO many ways- Mr. Harry M.C.
- funny quotes that make no sense (have you ever stopped to think and then forgotten to start again?)
- our chem teacher (Miss B-to the-eeman) trying to not bore us to death and her innocent ignorance of our 4-1 where-abouts.
- these two guys in my chem class, Josh and Chris who mock the teacher and she doesn't have the power to stop them because there totally right. Its hilarious. They even played cards through class one time.
- when Rob mocked ms keahey last year and she chased him with an eraser.
- wayne brady
-anything by mel brooks
- mispronunciation of everyday words (seen the comercial with the guy who says puh-ho-nix? Instead of phoenix.)
- when i fall up the stairs
- teachers who have no idea what there doing teaching so they just ramble on and on and then no one is listening until they say stonehInge and not stonehenge
- danny (our drum major ) sticking david moon (itty bitty freshman) in an instrument cubbyhole
- parents trying to "connect" with their teenaged kids
- gay guys (no offense, there awesome and always so secure and confident- and they tell the best jokes!)
- scrawny white guys trying to be ghetto *coughsamcough*
- our president and the numerous jokes that can be said about him
- questions that make you go hmmmmmmmmm
- when someone touches my neck- it tickles, ok???
- christmas trees falling over on top of my sister.
- when i think back about things i say that sound dumb.
- my friend's bf lee.
- ok think: black ice+5 teenaged girls in holloween costumes trick or treating
- christmas caroling off key.
- this purple notebook me and my friends keep to amuse ourslves. Its hilarious meets inspirational. Hey, maybe we should publish it someday. Yeah. . . .
- jay leno and dave letterman and conan o'brian. SNL and mad tv. Will farrell
- apparently being married off to THE wierdest guy in our class. Just outta the blue this one girl goes, so if I wrote a book about him marrying her . . . . and im like, huh? Me?
-totally wiping out in the middle of english class. Like, you stand up to walk around the room to ask a friend a question about spanish and all of a sudden youre lying full out on the ground.
- lists of fun things to do in a wall-mart (www.forwardgarden.com )
- falling in my pond thats all of three feet wide. Two years in a row (don't ask how)
- etc etc etc. -basically just random things. Trust me, you don't want me to go on.
Seeing one of my closes friends get hurt. *Preferably in a phisycal way as long as it is not serious*
| Posted By: Magus Dec 22, 2004 - 09:20 am | | Mrs. Conway, my crazy English techer.
Mr. Williams, this one crazy teacher that always interrupted my Biology class last year.
This one Spanish teacher that occasionally drops by my Spanish class and pretends he's the Hulk.
The animated Return of the King movie. This one is the one that they made while on heroin!
-Mr. Davis, my crazy history teacher who is obsessed with wrestling and celine dion. no joke, he made us listen to her xmas album today in class. and when he describes the upcoming sporting events at our school, he says everytime, without fail, "the evening will be (cold/cool/kinda warm/warm in the gym/however the weather is that night)...(dramatic pause)...but the action will be HOT!
-the two guys in my spanish class who think that british people pronounce their -ar ending words "er" so they call me Emmer(Emma, Emmer, get it?) but that doesn't make me laugh so much as their(but this was really started by fiery red and myself) rendition of "santa clause": Santer Clarse. he's comin ter town!
-when fiery red falls into her goldfish pond
-when i stop talking to my lil sister and she gets all huffy and finally after about 10 years she hauls off and hits me
-tickling. hardcore tickling. not fun. but it makes me laugh anyway.
-"freaking out the normies" this involves leaving payphones off the hook, ripping random pages out of the phone books they have at pay phones, running around screaming, trick or treating at the age of 15 and older, breaking it down in the middle of the mall and yelling "drop it like it's hot ladies!" in front of American Eagle Outfitters, and basically causing a scene of any kind. tackling people in the hallways at school is a good one too.
-fontuns. my friend erica forgot the word "futon", and when called upon to use it, she mistakenly called it "fontun" this word must be said with a highly affected hllbilly accent at all times.
-another erica moment. she ran into a sliding glass door. and then my other friend katie did it right after her. (i wasn't there, i heard about it)
-making fun of oldy time musicals. case in point, fiddler on the roof: a bunch of old jewish guys get drunk and then all of the cool guy's daughters run away with russian men. the tailor guy is ambiguously gay. (no offense to fiddlers on rooves, i liked this movie, but you've got to have something to do when mr. harry mc is droning on and on about mash or seinfeld or both. seriously, he thinks the characters are real. they're his friends.
-purple notebooks
-when my mom tries to be "cool" only half the time i end up puking instead of laughing...
| Posted By: Magus Dec 22, 2004 - 06:17 pm | | My brother's first roommate. He didn't go to class, drank heavily and rarely left bed. He left at the semester and never returned. When cleaning out his stuff my brother found all of the guy's books, still in the shrink-wrap.
The Girl in my Spanish class who's a "natural speaker" who's getting a 2.7% while I get over a 100% in the same class. Also, the fact that she gets two or three Saturday Detentions and several more regular ones each week. And I'm not kidding about any of this!
Nat. Weird kid who began following some religious cult from a computer game.
Marching Bassoons. Watch the last scene of The Music Man. They don't exist, but are in the movie.
Marching Oboes, see above.
| Posted By: Aldan Dec 22, 2004 - 07:37 pm | | Ma'chin' 'obos? Well, if the PM don' do somethin' ta fix tha cost o' the pint, then they'll do't!
| Posted By: Magus Dec 23, 2004 - 06:39 am | | HUH?
-my dad told me a story about his high school days, he went to a catholic school w/ nuns, and they made all the students go to midnight mass like every week, so my dad and his friends got fake ids and went to the bar amd got totally hammered, then went t mass. after awhile, they figured out that they could just skip the church altogether. this is half offensive, half funny  magus's bro's roomate story reminded me of this
| Posted By: Magus Dec 24, 2004 - 06:20 am | | Yeah, the roommate kept bottles of Canadian Whisky in plain view. ONe night he got so drunk he threw up on my brother's rug and then threw it away. My brother asked him about it and he denied it until he confessed a week later. But this is the best part right here:
Later, when he was cleaning out the room, my brother found a poem his roommate wrote about him. It was called "My Rommate is What's Wrong With America".
My brother doesn't think it was well written. But, then again, he is a biased English Education major.
oh my that is HIlarious! my luck, ill end up with a roomie like that...good for the ol' memoirs tho...lol j/k my life is way to boring to write anything decent about
| Posted By: Magus Dec 26, 2004 - 08:21 pm | | As my brother says, every year he plays the roomate lottery and every year he loses.
What makes me laugh? Hmmm, let's see...
*My friend Kimi because she acts so crazy
*The "Circle of Friends" (as my friends and I call ourselves, since when we get together, we're in a circle)
*People I'm talking to on IM
*My geography teacher
*My sister(occasionally)
That's all I can think of right now
| Posted By: Ariel Mar 26, 2005 - 05:12 pm | | Ferrets,my cats,my family...
Tickling.
| Posted By: aldan Mar 27, 2005 - 01:29 pm | | *A very deep voice booms*
SEEING SOMEONE TICKLED WITH A BASEBALL BAT.
AN IRON MAIDEN
WATCHING BOXERS PUMMEL EACH OTHER.
READING THE FRONT PAGE OF THE NEWSPAPER
WATCHING THE NEWS FOOTAGE FROM IRAQ
...and if you believe that, I have an investment in a bridge crossing the Atlantic Ocean for you...
What I really find funny, humorous, whatever, is silliness, not due to what the silly person is doing, but due to the reactions of people TO that person's actions.
Puns are fun, but not funny. What IS funny is the pained groans of the people who catch my puns.
In novels, what I will laugh at is witty conversation, in which there is a straight man and of course an over-the-top funny man, and when that's done well, I have to read the book in a private location or else I'll embarrass myself with my laughter... but then if I'm in a mood, I'll do so anyway, just to see the reactions of passersby.
| Posted By: aldan Mar 27, 2005 - 02:00 pm | | By the way, there was a song by Oingo Boingo called "It only makes me laugh" that goes quite well with what I tend to laugh at...
| Posted By: Magus Mar 27, 2005 - 02:42 pm | | 2/3 of a pun is "PU".
Oh ha ha, Magus. 
Yeah, like often times I find laughter more funny than the joke pun that causes it. Ever just laughed for no reason? I had a friend who would sit next to me in English class just to make me laugh, by making silly faces and stuff, because once I really get started I can't stop. I'd put my head down, arms rapped over my head, my whole body shaking in an endless melody of silenced laughter. He'd point it out to the guys behind us and they'd start laughing, and then the guys behind them would ask what's so funny? but wouldn't get an answer, until they started laughing. Finally, all the guys in the class would be laughing for no reason! The girls would just raise their eyes at us, the teacher was pissed. We'd laugh and laugh until the class was over. Then, we'd all walk out groaning from stomach pain. That was funny! 
| Posted By: Magus Apr 04, 2005 - 06:00 pm | | Well, I know what makes me cry and whimper like a little baby. But Princess of Fire can further explain that.
| Posted By: aldan Apr 04, 2005 - 08:13 pm | | "When I fall down a hole and I hit the bottom, it only makes me laugh."
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