… videos, jokes, websites, pictures, anything. Show me something fun. Tell me what you do that makes you feel warm, happy, or comforted.
I’ve had a horrible, horrible couple of weeks (both my dad and my grandmother died over the past two weeks. My grandmother was really old. My dad wasn’t. Oh, and my birthday right in the middle.) and even more crap has rained down over the past couple days that I’m not even going to get into. It’s exam time, so I haven’t missed a day of school or had time to stop and breathe and think about any of it.
So today, I’m in an awful mood. I have to work tonight (there’s only an hour’s gap in between school and work- not enough time to go home- so I’m sitting in a Panera near work) til around 1 AM and am really not feeling up to it. I haven’t slept properly all week (because of a combination of stress from school/week-before-exams crunch and just… life being crappy). I need something to look forward to when I get home tonight. Or tomorrow morning. I honestly just feel like crying for hours right now.
And I know when I’m having a bad day, someone else out there is probably having a worse one and could use a pick-me-up even more than I can.
So share- what are your favorite fun things? Your favorite jokes, your favorite movies, your favorite subject to sit and research long into the night, anything. Tell me about something funny that happened to you, a cute thing your kid (or nephew, or some kid in the store, or your dentist) said. Even if you’ve had a rotten day/week/month too, tell me about that.
I’ll start out- here and here- goofy generators (sign generators, birthday cake generators, fortune cookie generators)- they’re silly, but I love playing with them and sending them to my friends with their names on it (as a joke, mostly).
Hey there Surrender, can I call you Surrender?
Sorry to hear about you Dad and your Grandmother. I know having bad things happen while your trying to get through exams is the worst. But here’s a little joke.
One day SurrenderDorothy was fishing at a little pond. A frog hopped up onto the bank where she was sitting and said to her: "Hello, I’m not really a frog, but a handsome prince put under a curse by a wicked witch. If you’ll kiss me, the curse will be lifted. You can then marry me and be my princess and we’ll live happily ever after. So SurrenderDorothy said:
“Cool, I’ve got me a talking frog!” Snatched him up and stuffed him into her catch bucket.
Sorry about your losses but to me beer is really good stuff.
Raising Arizona is my favorite quotable movie(G-dammit that there is a 500 dollar camel hair jacket)or (son you got a panty on your head) Its spring time here in Texas, A man walks into a bar and says ouch. How a bout Panera makes a really good cinnamon swirl bagel that should make things seem at least a little better. or how about one of those cyber hug things? if I knew how?
Awe jeez Dorothy, I know you’re not looking for condolences, but I’m offering mine anyway. That’s a difficult time for sure.
There are a lot of Just for Laughs comedy festival clips on Youtube that are mindlessly funny. Have a look at this one and then browse the related ones. You don’t need sound to enjoy any of these, which sometimes helps with privacy.
Take care.
I’m so sorry to hear of your troubles. My dad died unexpectedly, and early, when I was 21.
One favorite: silly kitty comic strip called Two Lumps.
Epic Win FTW
Well you did specifically ask for stories about my nephew.
When he was right around 4 he discovered the wonder that is star wars toys, and subsequently made the discovery that my fiance was already aware of this wonder. (We have many shelves of 'em) he was Very put out that he couldn’t play with mr. thief’s toys when he wasn’t around, and was aggravated about it for many weeks. One day I called his mom and he got on the phone with me.
Have you ever seen 12 monleys? He sounded EXACTLY like brad pitt’s character. He went off on a rant about people not sharing their toys, etc. Then he says
" And do yoo THINK you can have STAR WARS figures in a GOLDEN MANSION?! … You CANNOT - you canNOT have STAR WARS Figures in a golden mansion!"
I have no idea where the golden mansion came from, but apparently you canNOT have star wars figures in one.
They would fall out the windows, he told me recently (couple of years later)
I am very sorry for the tragedies you have recently experienced. My fiance’s mother died just a couple of days after his birthday. It was brutally hard on him. I feel for you {hug}
Bad Pets
Where the Hell Is Matt?
Psychiatric Clinic for Abused Cuddly Toys (interactive “game” – kind of like a Choose Your Own Adventure – where you’re the psychiatrist, trying to make the toys feel better)
Sita Sings the Blues (wonderful animated movie based on some Hindu mythology; movie maker deliberately made it free to download [or watch on YouTube] in its entirety)
No one expects the Spanish Lickquisition!
2010 Live Owlet Cam in Austin, TX
Vanity Plates
Cake Wrecks
[Note: direct link to an MP3] Cruel Shoes (Steve Martin reading one of his own short stories)
Itty Bitty Kitty Committee
ZooBorns (baby animals at zoos)
I bet you’ve seen some of these, but not others. I keep them bookmarked for my bad days.
Oh no… it’s… it’s… it’s a CUTE OVERLOAD!!!!!1!!
Sorry for your rough patch.
Not particularly funny, but and incredibly effective diversion:
sporcle
Take care,
MMM
On a radio station yesterday morning: They were talking about a church that has a special service for dogs. Someone called in and said “At that service, they preach hellfire and dalmatian”
Baby laughing at ripping paper: I watched this with my three year old niece, and we then spent the next hour reenacting the video. I’d hold a sheet of newspaper, she’d grab an end of it and pull it hard enough to make herself fall down (which she’d fake 9 times out of 10) and then laugh hysterically. This went on for AN HOUR until we thankfully ran out of paper. I seriously thought I could outlast her, but if we’d had more newspaper, she could have gone on and on.
She also thinks the word “kiddo” is really funny. Every time I call her kiddo, she repeats the word and laughs. Strangely, the word “niece” makes her angry, and she insists she is not my niece but my nephew.
My other niece knows that she is a girl (insists that she is a girl), but when she wears her cowboy hat she is a cowboy; she gets angry if you tell her she’s a cowgirl. She’s a cowboy, not a cowgirl, not a girl cowboy.
Beer. 
As for something online, Jon Lajoie videos on youtube always make me crack up.
