Okay, you guys, I’m tired of the
serious stuff. In fact I’m just tired period, so maybe I’m just a little
punchy. But I can’t take hearing about one more National Disaster or Emergency
today. And World Crisis or the latest NWO shenanigans – don’t even bring that
crap to my attention. I already run the risk of alienating all my friends and
family by trying to wake them up to what’s going on. So if you hit me with it, I
might freak totally smooth out. Well, at least until I’ve had my second cup of
coffee. Then be very, very careful how you bring it up. Anyway, I was reading
this article this morning about how laughter is good for you. No wonder I’ve
been feeling a little puny lately. I haven’t found too much to laugh about it
quite some time. So quick, tell me a joke. No wait, that never works. I usually
don’t laugh at jokes. Oh some of them are funny, but not that funny. I’ve been
told I have a weird sense of humor. I’ve only tried to tell a joke that I’ve
heard a couple of times, and I always mess it up. No sense of timing I guess.
Now I do find stuff on “The Big Bang Theory” TV show hilarious sometimes. Those
guys do, as they say here, make me LOL. Maybe that has a lot to do with the fact that
I really identify with that group of nerds so much having been one of them most of my
life. Yes, you can’t tell it by looking at me, seeing the cool dude before you
that I’ve transformed myself into (don’t look at me like that – take my word
for it), but I was a Sam’s Club sized social misfit growing up. And I loved
science, science fiction, and comic books way more than playing baseball or
building a go-cart out of wood, spare wagon wheels, and an old lawnmower motor.
I didn’t start dating until I was eighteen, and even then I had to be tricked
into it by my so-called two best friends (who were also pretty much social
misfits by the way but not quite as nerdy as I was). Don’t get me wrong, I
liked girls. And I had started noticing them way before I was eighteen. But I
was way too shy to let any of them know about it. All in all, I guess I don’t
laugh nearly enough these days. So let me think about what makes me laugh. Hmm,
well my daughter makes me laugh. Seriously, she’s a very funny woman and it’s
hard not to laugh when she’s around. Sadly she’s not around nearly enough. Jeff
Dunham makes me laugh. I’ve seen all his specials on TV many times, and they
still make me laugh. Gabriel Iglesias makes me laugh – I love Fluffy! But I
haven’t seen him lately. In the article I read this morning, it claimed that
one of the benefits of laughter is that it lowers your blood pressure. Oh,
really? Then why doesn’t my doctor just give me a big cylinder of laughing gas
instead of the crappy medicine that doesn’t work very well and has stupid side
effects? Can you OD on nitrous oxide? I bet I’d be a big hit at parties with my
big cylinder of nitrous strapped to my back and one of those funny beer hats
with the tubes running from it to my nose instead of my mouth. Another benefit
of laughter according to the article was that it helps you lose weight. Now
that’s funny right there! And that one did make me laugh. I’ve known some jolly
old fat people in my life who laughed all the time – it didn’t work for them! And
it sure never worked for me. But seriously folks, looking at my life and the
world we live in today, you just gotta laugh. Because if you can’t find
anything funny about all this, you may as well take a dirt nap. So to prevent
that scenario, I’m outta here. Going to find some re-runs of “The Big Bang
Theory” or look for Fluffy on the internet. See ya!
Oh, and here’s
a couple of people I discovered on Twitter that I find to be very funny:
@Charles_E_Wells
a very witty man who’s on twitter just
about every day…tell him I said hi.
Erica Lucke
Dean – her blog is guaranteed to crack you up. Check it out at:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/21BZdQ/ericaluckedean.com/the-daily-blog/2012/12/28/blog-girl-to-the-rescue
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