# So, what made you smile today? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 18, 2021, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-smile-today/950882 "2021-09-18T19:28:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**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:** [March 21, 2024, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-smile-today/950882/281 "2024-03-21T23:36:35Z")
I hope we get to see it too. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2024, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-smile-today/950882/282 "2024-03-22T01:25:18Z")
This morning I had to get a blood draw. The technician was a Southern Asian woman, Pakistani or Indian, perhaps. I flinched when the needle went in, and she said soothingly, ā€œI know, the prick is hard.ā€ I had to turn my head and cover my mouth so she wouldnā€™t see me trying not to laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2024, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-smile-today/950882/283 "2024-03-22T01:35:47Z")
Woke up this morning and one of the Roku channels was playing Charles Bandā€™s 1977 musical _Cinderella_. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-smile-today/950882/284 "2024-08-14T16:12:25Z")
A woman became friends with a London street cleaner, Paul Spiers, through a mutual love of Elvis whoā€™s music he played through a speaker on his cart. She started a GoFundMe campaign which raised Ā£3000 to pay for a holiday in Portugal for him, but the local councilā€™s contract with his employer forbade it. šŸ™„ So, a local Travel Agent ran a competition, with a prize of a holiday in Portugal, which was open to applicants who ā€œlove Elvis Presley, are aged between 62 and 64, are loved by the local community, are a street cleaner in Beckenham and have the surname Spiersā€. And ā€¦ Paul won the prize ! Sorted. > **[Bromley: Cleaner 'wins' holiday after bosses ban fundraiser cash](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clywd1l0j58o)** > > He was not allowed to accept a GoFundMe reward of Ā£3,000 raised by members of the community. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-smile-today/950882/285 "2024-08-18T01:41:18Z")
A client made cream cheese wontons and brought them into my workplace just for me and one other person. There werenā€™t enough of them to share around with everyone, something I think she did deliberately. She had to make (and pay for) an extra trip on our bus service to bring them to us. I feel cherished. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-smile-today/950882/286 "2024-08-18T13:40:56Z")
Last night we were babysitting the grandkid, age not yet 4. At one point they said a version of one of their more recent quips: ā€œGive me a thumbs up and click on subscribe.ā€ This tends to come out when they are finished with one of their imagination plays with little figures. They first time this came out the mother said ā€œWe are such bad parents.ā€ ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-smile-today/950882/287 "2024-08-18T20:14:04Z")
I saw a woman walking a Yorkie in an umbrella stroller šŸ˜Š. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-smile-today/950882/288 "2024-08-19T11:41:06Z")
After going without a pontoon boat last summer and this one (and making many jokes about how great it was), we bought one yesterday. My gf insists that we are better off with a pontoon than without. We shall see! ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-smile-today/950882/289 "2024-08-19T17:07:58Z")
Grapefruit campari sorbet. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-smile-today/950882/290 "2024-08-19T17:13:01Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > After going without a pontoon boat last summer and this one (and making many jokes about how great it was), we bought one yesterday. My gf insists that we are better off with a pontoon than without. We shall see! I am sure this will bring many smiles! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-smile-today/950882/291 "2024-08-19T17:26:13Z")
Iā€™m at Rosston Eddy Marina now, waiting for the boat to arrive. The two happiest days; the day you get a boat, and the day you sell the boat. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-smile-today/950882/292 "2024-08-20T17:01:20Z")
seems like we need boat updates here ā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-smile-today/950882/293 "2024-08-20T17:58:31Z")
[![](https://i.imgur.com/Y4fcLCA.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/Y4fcLCA.jpeg) Hereā€™s our 2019 90 HP Yamaha on a Yamaha Sun Catcher pontoon boat. Not the fanciest boat out there, but way fancier than my first 3 pontoon boats. Unfortunately, the side gate is on the port side and the only open slip has me entering/exiting starboard. Itā€™ll be extra work docking, but Iā€™m up to it. Check out the sternā€¦thatā€™s a propane grill with a griddle top. The boat is at the marina, but on the trailer. Iā€™m picking up a hitch for my gfā€™s truck today and getting wet tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2024, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-smile-today/950882/294 "2024-08-21T16:43:42Z")
In the Furniture With Proper Names thread, **kaylasdad99** posted a song about IKEA that just busted me up. Much obliged, **kaydad**. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2024, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-smile-today/950882/295 "2024-08-21T17:19:22Z")
The only meeting scheduled for today was just cancelled. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-smile-today/950882/296 "2024-08-24T06:00:13Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > In the Furniture With Proper Names thread, **kaylasdad99** posted a song about IKEA that just busted me up. Iā€™m going to @ him to be sure he sees this. Then Iā€™m going to go read that post! @kaylasdad99 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-smile-today/950882/297 "2024-08-24T10:04:04Z")
Thank you much. (Rhyming ā€œNorsemenā€ with ā€œDivorced menā€ is a stroke of genius.) ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-smile-today/950882/298 "2024-08-24T10:27:21Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > _Detachable Penis_ just came on the stereo You live in a country where King Missile is not banned? ---
**Author:** ![Eric1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3bc359/32.png) [@Eric1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eric1)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-smile-today/950882/299 "2024-08-24T16:18:27Z")
I unexpectedly saw my neighbor at a store faraway, having known the guy my whole life. Heā€™s a landscape business owner who used to be undocumented and crossed the border on a seasonal basis in the 80s. I was surprised that he knew my name but he is naturally outgoing. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-smile-today/950882/300 "2024-08-26T16:29:19Z")
This: [![Google Photos](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczNKLhQGcoFpE5fiNC-vcq0aEngaPUEc62ZFTL51vOZqDBjK_U3d5NBm3LR5r9wQ4wiEsuCrX5rDBq60BeHbOvH2LR18kM7NW1tzLwenCvUdB662348=w600-h315-p-k "New item by j") ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/YXL84xXGKbt3HkSA6) And now I canā€™t get the line _Evā€™rybody stopped to stare at your multicolored motorhomeā€¦_ out of my head. j [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-smile-today/950882.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-made-you-smile-today/950882.md?page=16)