# Did you ever laugh so hard at something . . . **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 25, 2018, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-laugh-so-hard-at-something/807462 "2018-01-25T17:38:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-laugh-so-hard-at-something/807462/21 "2018-01-29T21:07:14Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Oh, good, this saves me from starting a separate thread tentatively titled “I Guess I’m Weird Then!”. There was this pastry chef on Chopped who was talking about his sourdough starter, who “lives in his bucket under the sink. His name is Carl and he has his own nametag. After a year, I put a bowtie on him to celebrate his birthday.” > > I thought this was adorable. I would totally name my starter, who would be around for years and play a big role (roll?) in my bakery. Ted Allen says “You’re weird, aren’t you?” “Yeah, but it’s fun!” Count me in, Chopped guest pastry chef! I like it! I have been known to name inanimate objects that I love. For me it’s not how funny I find some things, but that I find certain things funny at all. I am on an endless quest to figure out why and how my sense of humor works the way it does. I can find humor in incredibly dark subjects, yet other jokes on the same subject fall flat or seem mean-spirited. And I can’t figure out what the difference is. Humor is such a weird and arbitrary thing. If I had to go on trial to justify my comedic preferences using logic and reason, I couldn’t do it. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-laugh-so-hard-at-something/807462/22 "2018-01-29T21:21:47Z")
This one always works for me - [Rejected Game of Thrones Characters](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/15/rejected-game-of-thrones-names-conan_n_3278801.html?utm_hp_ref=comedy) My mother used to say, when someone was laughing hard, “They sound like they’re gonna pass a bean!” I don’t know what she meant when she said this, but I believe I literally passed a bean reading this list. But then again, like **QtM** , I’m not surprised by what I laugh out loud at. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-laugh-so-hard-at-something/807462/23 "2018-01-29T21:31:07Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > This one always works for me - > > [Rejected Game of Thrones Characters](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/15/rejected-game-of-thrones-names-conan_n_3278801.html?utm_hp_ref=comedy) If I ever need a new username, I’m definitely gonna pick one of those! ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-laugh-so-hard-at-something/807462/24 "2018-01-29T21:37:27Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > This one always works for me - > > [Rejected Game of Thrones Characters](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/15/rejected-game-of-thrones-names-conan_n_3278801.html?utm_hp_ref=comedy) > > My mother used to say, when someone was laughing hard, “They sound like they’re gonna pass a bean!” I don’t know what she meant when she said this, but I believe I literally passed a bean reading this list. For some reason ‘‘Man Near Other Tree’’ is making me giggle. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-laugh-so-hard-at-something/807462/25 "2018-01-29T22:23:42Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > The hardest I can recall laughing was at a **Far Side** comic. It’s in the complete collection; I’ll try to get a page number later. > > What it is, basically, is a panel of grassy hills, a nice pastoral morning scene, with a tree in the foreground. A monkey-like creature has clearly just fallen from the tree and smacked into the ground, with a surprised look on its face. > > The caption says, “The Dawn of Man.” > > Every time I look at that thing, I crack up, sometimes until I can’t breathe. My father-in-law too. Our spouses, though, just look at us funny. I have two Far Side faves: “Why dinosaurs went extinct”: a bunch of dinos are smoking cigarettes. “Crisis Center”: The building is going over a waterfall and things people are phobic about, like snakes, are hanging out the windows. I wish Larson was still in the biz, he’s a genius. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-laugh-so-hard-at-something/807462/26 "2018-01-29T22:25:39Z")
> [@Jennshark](#): > > I have two Far Side faves: > “Why dinosaurs went extinct”: a bunch of dinos are smoking cigarettes. > > “Crisis Center”: The building is going over a waterfall and things people are phobic about, like snakes, are hanging out the windows. > > I wish Larson was still in the biz, he’s a genius. If you’re a fan, I highly recommend _Prehistory of the Far Side_, in which we, the fans, gain insight into his weird little mind. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-laugh-so-hard-at-something/807462/27 "2018-01-29T22:43:01Z")
In the early 1990s, one of my friends told me that she was driving somewhere in the college town where we both lived at the time, and she saw a man standing outside a car in broad daylight with no pants on. :eek: She told one of her roommates about it, and the roommate asked her, “Was he bleeding from the anus?” (Extra points if you got it.) She and I must be the only people on earth who thought that was funny. ---
**Author:** ![Hopeful\_Crow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-laugh-so-hard-at-something/807462/28 "2018-01-29T22:57:27Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > I think I mentioned this episode in another thread. > > Once upon a time, Mrs. J. and I used to get our taxes done at a (H&R Block?) kiosk set up in the local Sears store. One year, our preparer was a solemn, 70-ish, impeccably tailored Indian gentleman named C.U. Mehta…( This reminded me of the time a couple of nice Mormon boys stopped by to see if I might like to discuss their religion with them. I politely declined but was amused to see that their name tags identified them as Elders Cox and Ball. Some people might say that Mormons don’t have a sense of humor. I beg to differ. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-laugh-so-hard-at-something/807462/29 "2018-01-29T23:26:00Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > I think I mentioned this episode in another thread. > > Once upon a time, Mrs. J. and I used to get our taxes done at a (H&R Block?) kiosk set up in the local Sears store. One year, our preparer was a solemn, 70-ish, impeccably tailored Indian gentleman named C.U. Mehta. > > It was probably a combination of repressed hilarity about his name, plus the unending manner in which he painstakingly explored every possible angle which did not apply to our situation, but we finally got the giggles about the nth time he prolonged the session with another non sequitur, which led to outright helpless laughter (punctuated by indignant looks from C.U. Mehta), during which I finally had to get up and out of there before I coughed up a body part. > > It didn’t make me question who I am, but for awhile I seriously questioned if it was safe for me to be out in public. ☹ I have a recurring issue with remembering funny things in the midst of serious moments. I usually stifle my laughter with a cough fake-out but I don’t know how convincing I am. The last time this happened I was in a group listening to a writer friend seriously expound upon his work for critique. He said something that somehow triggered the memory of a completely unrelated Settlers of Catan in-joke with my friends the other night: a tiny hamlet we dubbed Curbstomp. I don’t remember the context, just that the hamlet of Curbstomp cracked my shit up, and then off I went, hacking and coughing to smother my laughter. It totally looked like I was laughing at my friend. I can’t help it, I just feel things in the moment, and if my mind hits on some random hilarity as it’s wandering… ---
**Author:** ![betterlifethroughchemistry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/betterlifethroughchemistry/32/3094_2.png) [@betterlifethroughchemistry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betterlifethroughchemistry)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2018, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-laugh-so-hard-at-something/807462/30 "2018-01-30T00:33:25Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > I don’t know of any that made me question who I am, but of all the myraid Peanuts cartoons I have been exposed to in my near-65 years (which means a lot), this one has stuck with me and can still make me grin, if not laugh out loud. Why? Can’t really say, but like Hopeful Crow above says, funny bones are weird. > > [https://pics.me.me/peanuts-though-her-husband-ve-solved-our-problem-he-said-21420830.png](https://pics.me.me/peanuts-though-her-husband-ve-solved-our-problem-he-said-21420830.png) I had forgotten that one - that’s pretty funny! ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2018, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-laugh-so-hard-at-something/807462/31 "2018-01-30T00:53:32Z")
I laughed out loud today while watching _Victoria_ an excellent series on PBS Masterpiece where she visited France to convince her cousin, the King, not to attempt to marry off his son to the Belgian Princess. He said “England is snapping up all the Queens. Queen Victoria promptly set him straight with “I was not snapped up”.I am still LAUGHING. This is a much watch series BTW. IMHO ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2018, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-laugh-so-hard-at-something/807462/32 "2018-01-30T01:07:48Z")
> [@BobBitchin](#): > > I have found a few people in my life that are triggers like this. > > The right joke sends us into a giggling feedback loop Goddammit, now you are forcing me to watch all of _Coupling_ all over again. That episode where Jeff talks about trying not to laugh during a solemn event, but you thinking of something funny and you get caught up in The Giggle Loop. That whole series is full of moments that are too funny. Some that are not so much, but many that are. Steve: _I have to ask her three more times_ Nurse: _She said you can’t_ Steve: _She didn’t say “can’t”_ ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2018, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-laugh-so-hard-at-something/807462/33 "2018-01-30T01:27:30Z")
> [@ASGuy](#): > > I’m sorry, but as a male, cartoons and jokes of this _specific_ type are not funny. And it is entirely because I have been subjected to this event. It is _not_ pleasant. I suspect that most men cringe at the very thought of being kicked in the genitals. And that’s from day-to-day life experience. Fiction authors and filmmakers have got this right: it completely incapacitates the victim and is painful for a long time. I’ve been a victim. It’s not a joke to us. That cartoon is an almost perfect rendition of the first time I met my best friend. Right down to the fact that I’m a bear, and he’s a pig. Anyway, I thought it was funny. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2018, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-laugh-so-hard-at-something/807462/34 "2018-01-30T01:40:01Z")
> [@Hopeful\_Crow](#): > > This reminded me of the time a couple of nice Mormon boys stopped by to see if I might like to discuss their religion with them. I politely declined but was amused to see that their name tags identified them as Elders Cox and Ball. Oh, C.U.Mehta is funny because of his initials?? I thought it was because it sounds like “see you later!” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2018, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-laugh-so-hard-at-something/807462/35 "2018-01-30T04:48:54Z")
> [@Hopeful\_Crow](#): > > The [“Taranshula”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYAlB1Kxayc) scene from Red Dwarf (go to the 56 second mark if you want to skip the preamble) has sent me into paroxysms of laughter like nothing else I’ve ever known. Loud, uncontrollable, breath-stealing, tear-making, bladder-straining laughter. > > It has stricken me this way several times. Even now it still gives me a good chuckle. Something about the way Lister and Cat describe what’s going on offscreen while typing on the computer just puts my funny bone in overdrive. > > I sure many of you who see this scene will think, “Meh,” at most. All I can say in defense is that funny bones are weird. “You haven’t seen it!” > [@Max\_Torque](#): > > The hardest I can recall laughing was at a **Far Side** comic. It’s in the complete collection; I’ll try to get a page number later. > > What it is, basically, is a panel of grassy hills, a nice pastoral morning scene, with a tree in the foreground. A monkey-like creature has clearly just fallen from the tree and smacked into the ground, with a surprised look on its face. > > The caption says, “The Dawn of Man.” > > Every time I look at that thing, I crack up, sometimes until I can’t breathe. My father-in-law too. Our spouses, though, just look at us funny. [https://i.pinimg.com/564x/b2/b1/5b/b2b15b23fb466d27216492c3028c71a3.jpg](https://i.pinimg.com/564x/b2/b1/5b/b2b15b23fb466d27216492c3028c71a3.jpg) It must be a guy thing, I don’t get it either. (See? Stuff like this is never funny to me.) > [@gigi](#): > > Oh, good, this saves me from starting a separate thread tentatively titled “I Guess I’m Weird Then!”. There was this pastry chef on Chopped who was talking about his sourdough starter, who “lives in his bucket under the sink. His name is Carl and he has his own nametag. After a year, I put a bowtie on him to celebrate his birthday.” > > I thought this was adorable. I would totally name my starter, who would be around for years and play a big role (roll?) in my bakery. Ted Allen says “You’re weird, aren’t you?” “Yeah, but it’s fun!” Count me in, Chopped guest pastry chef! I had one named Clyde who lived in my fridge, and mostly ate leftover mashed potatoes. I admit to giving him a spoonful of sugar on special occasions, and a piece of the cake on my birthday. Last year I went on a bread-making spurt, and tried to start a new one, but Clydes II through IV didn’t make it past a few days/weeks. * * * Through some odd quirk of fate, today “Outdoor Life” magazine e-mailed me [this handy recipe for cleaning and cooking deer danglies.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/how-to-cook-venison-rocky-mountain-oysters?CMPID=ene012918&spMailingID=32826271&spUserID=ODY3OTE0OTMxODQS1&spJobID=1203655912&spReportId=MTIwMzY1NTkxMgS2#page-14) (No, I don’t have any idea how I got on their mailing list.) It includes a helpful link to instructions for turning the scrotum into a coin purse. > [@](#): > > “Begin by cutting off any remains of the pizzle. . .” > **[How to Cook Venison Rocky Mountain Oysters](https://www.outdoorlife.com/how-to-cook-venison-rocky-mountain-oysters/?CMPID=ene012918&spMailingID=32826271&spUserID=ODY3OTE0OTMxODQS1&spJobID=1203655912&spReportId=MTIwMzY1NTkxMgS2)** > > I’ve never eaten rocky mountain oysters, nor made them in my kitchen. But inspiration came after tagging my first whitetail in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming. If you’ve never tried the dangly woodland berries yourself, man, are you missing out.... ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2018, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-laugh-so-hard-at-something/807462/36 "2018-01-30T09:30:41Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > . . . that [it made you seriously question who you are?](https://scontent-sea1-1.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/s640x640/sh0.08/e35/c0.31.854.854/22858208_507730832931379_1953833193350103040_n.jpg) I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2018, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-laugh-so-hard-at-something/807462/37 "2018-01-30T14:54:14Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > … I am on an endless quest to figure out why and how my sense of humor works the way it does. I can find humor in incredibly dark subjects, yet other jokes on the same subject fall flat or seem mean-spirited. And I can’t figure out what the difference is. Humor is such a weird and arbitrary thing. If I had to go on trial to justify my comedic preferences using logic and reason, I couldn’t do it. Yesterday, I was thinking about that immortal **Monty Python** quote : “I fart in your general direction!”. “I fart in your direction!” is just as insulting but only mildly amusing. It’s the addition of the adjective “general” that makes the joke. Why? Perhaps because it adds a layer of insult as in : “I fart in your direction but you’re so insignificant that I can’t be bothered to aim precisely” ? I don’t know… ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2018, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-laugh-so-hard-at-something/807462/38 "2018-01-30T14:58:12Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > [https://i.pinimg.com/564x/b2/b1/5b/b2b15b23fb466d27216492c3028c71a3.jpg](https://i.pinimg.com/564x/b2/b1/5b/b2b15b23fb466d27216492c3028c71a3.jpg) > > It must be a guy thing, I don’t get it either. (See? Stuff like this is never funny to me.) I think it’s the expression on his face, juxtaposed with the grandiosity of “the Dawn of Man”. I can’t explain it, but it still kills me. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2018, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-laugh-so-hard-at-something/807462/39 "2018-01-30T15:22:47Z")
> [@ASGuy](#): > > I’m sorry, but as a male, cartoons and jokes of this _specific_ type are not funny. And it is entirely because I have been subjected to this event. It is _not_ pleasant. I suspect that most men cringe at the very thought of being kicked in the genitals. And that’s from day-to-day life experience. Fiction authors and filmmakers have got this right: it completely incapacitates the victim and is painful for a long time. I’ve been a victim. It’s not a joke to us. Not personally. But we will snicker when it happens to someone else. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2018, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-laugh-so-hard-at-something/807462/40 "2018-01-30T15:45:27Z")
Oh, my cousin and I get to laughing so hard it turns into snorting, which just makes it worse. One of my favorite panel comics (sadly I for got who drew it) Bummed out man sitting at bar - My Wife left me, I lost my job, my dog died and all anyone cares about is my hat! Man sitting next to him - What’s the matter with your hat? BOMSAB - SEE!!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-laugh-so-hard-at-something/807462.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-laugh-so-hard-at-something/807462.md?page=3)