"funny how?"
Fat Tuesday Edition
quotes:
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.Jack Nicholson
Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.Billy Crystal
Sex is one of the most wholesome, beautiful and natural experiences money can buy.Steve Martin
It isn't premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married.George Burns
I don't have a girlfriend, I just know a girl that would get really pissed if she heard me say that.Mitch Hedburg
You cannot outthink someone who isn't thinking.Albert Einstein
In a world gone mad, only a lunatic is truly insane.Homer Simpson
It's better to be pissed off, then pissed on!Annonymous
He couldn't make me laugh, even if I was laughing my ass off and he was the one making me do it!Family Guy
Even a fish could stay out of trouble if it kept it's mouth shut!Annonymous
A good friend will help you move. A really good friend will help you move a body!Annonymous
Last week my tie caught on fire. Some guy tried to put it out with an ax!Rodney Dangerfield
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.Hunter S. Thompson
Is it possible to see something so funny, that it ruins your sense of humor forever?Eric Cartman
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.Will Rogers
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.Albert Einstein
I just thought of something funny...your mother.Cheech Marin
When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.Peter O'Toole.
Who the [heck] wants to hear actors talk?H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927
All I need to make comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.Charlie Chaplin
I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.Mel Brooks
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.Joe E Lewis
I can resist everything except temptation.Oscar Wilde
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.Pablo Picasso
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.Dennis Ritchie
Drinking for an entertainer is like stretching for an athlete.Mitch Hedberg
There are no good ways to die.Chick McGee
If you die, and you're in debt, you win.Ben Creed
If you can't spot the sucker at your table in the first thirty minutes, you are the sucker.Matt Damon, Rounders
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.Colette
You can go along way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.Al Capone
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.Mel Brooks
I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets.Dave Edison
There is one thing I would break up over and that is if she caught me with another woman. I wouldn't stand for that.Steve Martin
Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.Jim Carrey
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.George Carlin
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane!Jimmy Buffet
If you dedicate yourself to learning about your subject for 15 minutes a day, in a year's time you'll be an expert. In five years, you'll be a national expert. The only hard part is choosing your subject.Albert Einstein
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Things you can do with absolutely nothing...Push your eyes for interesting light show:
(Amusement Potential: 1-5 minutes) See a variety of blobs, stars and flashes. Try to make out things - is your subconscious trying to send you a message? Can you control what you see by pressing different areas with different forces? Would it be possible to somehow see the same effects on TV? Or for that matter, watch TV with your eyes shut doing this?
See how long you can hold your breath:
(Amusement Potential: 4-20 minutes) Not that much fun, but it sure passes the time. Play with a friend, or try to beat your own personal best. Some tips: hyperventilate before hand, and stay as still as possible.
Try to not think about polar bears:
(Amusement Potential: 1-5 minutes) This is especially hard, because by trying too much, you remember what you were trying to avoid thinking of. If you try too little, you end up thinking about polar bears anyway.
Scratch yourself:
(Amusement Potential: 1-3 minutes) Go ahead, scratch yourself now. Even if nothing itches, go ahead. Doesn't that feel pretty good?
Hurt yourself:
(Amusement Potential: 1-3 minutes) What is pain? Why is it unpleasant? There's nothing physical about it - it's all in your mind. Plus, after pinching yourself for awhile, boredom will seem nice next to being in pain.
Try to swallow your tongue:
(Amusement Potential: 1-3 minutes) There's not much to say about this one. It is possible.
Look at something for awhile, shut eyes, study after image:
(Amusement Potential: 2-5 minutes) Another great time waster. It takes about 30 seconds of staring to create an after image, and the image is then viewable for about the same length of time. Fun to combine this one with pushing on your eyes.
Get yourself as nauseated as possible:
(Amusement Potential: 5-10 minutes) Best achieved by looking straight up and spinning around. Try to be so dizzy you can't even stand up. This is also entertaining due to the "makes boredom seem a lot better" effect (see "Hurt Yourself").
Things you can do with very little:
See what's in your neighbour's trash:
(Amusement Potential: 20-30 minutes) You can learn a lot about people by what they throw out. You might uncover some dark secret about them. Plus, they might be throwing out something with value that still works, like a VCR.
Watch TV, repeat everything said in Italian accent:
(Amusement Potential: 5-10 minutes) Sort of entertaining. Fun to pretend the people on the screen are actually talking that way.
Call up people who write editorials you disagree with:
(Amusement Potential: 15-60 minutes) I'm surprised no one has thought of this before. Unleash your fury on the person who had the nerve to write a letter like that! I'm pretty sure it doesn't qualify as a prank phone call, too.
Make prank phone calls:
(Amusement Potential: 20-60 minutes) Very entertaining, but requires discipline. Remember - vulgarities don't make a call funny, but getting the other person to believe a ridiculous story will. Even more fun if you get a bunch of people on the line using a Wonderphone and take turns making the calls. One to get you started off: Call McDonald's, try to make reservations.
Pretend all humans will die except for people in the room with you:
(Amusement Potential: 10-20 minutes) What would you do if this really happened? Would the group stay together, or would there be factions? Who would join what group? Remember, there would only be power for a few days before the plants ran out of fuel or broke. To travel, you would always have to be near cars to siphon gas out of. Best to do with people you know.
Step off a curb with eyes shut, imagine it's a cliff:
(Amusement Potential: 2-5 minutes) To get any benefit out of this one, you have to have a good imagination. Don't step off immediately, build up to the jump. Study the ravine below. Feel the winds at that altitude. Step off and... AHHHHHH!!!!!
Burn things with a magnifying glass:
(Amusement Potential: 5-30 minutes) Ants are always fun to use for this, but burning the face of someone you don't like, under some circumstances, can be just as entertaining.
Things you can do with another person:
Have a water drinking contest:
(Amusement Potential: 5-10 minutes) While the competition is fun, you probably won't feel too good afterward. To give your event an old western theme, slam the cups upside down on the tables after you have emptied them.
Stare at the back of someone's head until they turn around:
(Amusement Potential: 2-5 minutes) This works on the "I have the feeling I'm being watched" principle. Conduct an experiment--does this really work?
Have a "Who is less competitive" competition:
(Amusement Potential: 1-3 minutes) Trying to win at this will make you lose. Trying to lose makes you win which makes you lose. Not trying at all makes you lose which makes you win which makes you lose.
Pick up a dog so it can see things from your point of view:
(Amusement Potential: 3-5 minutes) Think about it: your dog has only seen the house from a viewpoint from 6" to 2' high (15 to 60 cm for all you metric fans). It's never seen the tops of counters, what you keep on your desk, the tops of shelves, etc. Try looking at things from its point of view, too.
Pull out a hair, stick in someone's ear:
(Amusement Potential: 1-5 minutes) Best done to sleeping people. Added challenge in having no one else around, because then you can't blame it on anyone else. Try to beat your record number of times before the person catches on.
Pour water in hand, make sneeze noise, throw water on back of person's neck:
(Amusement Potential: 5-15 minutes) Always a good gag. For an even bigger reaction out of the person, act like you're not sorry at all for what they think you did. Comment instead on how big that sneeze was or about how there was a lot of mucus in that one.