# When something strikes you as funny and you just cannot stop laughing **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 21, 2023, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338 "2023-07-21T01:56:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/21 "2023-07-21T20:23:48Z")
I’ve had this happen a few times in unforgivable circumstances. It is terribly embarrassing. I think part of the reason you can’t stop laughing is because you know _you really should stop laughing_ – and that makes it worse. There were 2 times when it happened during court during proceedings. Judge had to call a recess in each instance. Fortunately, the judge was also having trouble to keep from laughing, so the recesses weren’t just down to my bad behavior. There was also the time I inadvertently attended an Evensong service in Bath. We’d been fortunate in Exeter to be in the cathedral during their Anglican Evensong choir practice. It was incredibly beautiful and moving, and we were free to roam about at our leisure while listening. We so enjoyed the music that we thought we’d try again in Bath. Oops. Not a practice. A full-on service. A Catholic service. I’m no church-goer, and the Catholic calisthenics (sit, kneel, stand, sit, repeat) are a mystery to me. We tried to follow along best we could, but there came a moment when everyone else was sitting and we were conspicuously still standing. Three butts hit the pew in hasty unison. And that was it. The giggles commenced. Would not stop. Try as we might, chuckling, snorting and even a quiet, strangled cry emitted from our location. The person leading the service scowled at us in a furious manner. It did no good. We fled the venue in the first instant we could. The natives were more grateful than we were, I suspect. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/22 "2023-07-21T20:29:19Z")
I guess I’ll be the one who posts [this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJny78bpsgo&ab_channel=spidermanfan52) mmm ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/23 "2023-07-21T20:44:38Z")
LOL, definitely a lot like that!! Thanks for posting that – I had another giggle fit over it!! ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/24 "2023-07-21T20:50:13Z")
Platypusary. _Platypusary._ _ **Platypusary.** _ That is a most excellent word and now I will be saying it to myself and chuckling right along. I just had the uncontrollable laughing thing a few weeks ago when talking to a friend. We talk about food a lot, and I told her we were having shakshuka for dinner (for anyone not familiar with that dish, it is eggs poached in a tomato-based sauce). This brought up her dislike of plain eggs. She doesn’t like the taste or smell of them and is grossed out when her husband makes himself fried eggs for breakfast. Her: “To me, it’s like eating a fart. He’s eating farts for breakfast and you’re having farts for dinner!” I could not stop laughing. I ended up laying my head down on the table. And every time I make shakshuka I know I will remember this and start laughing all over again. Farts: It’s what’s for dinner! ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/25 "2023-07-21T21:00:44Z")
This just cracked me up and, to my eternal shame, I watch it over and over and over again. [Chicken Nugger French Fried Sweer Potato Kids Menu](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntyOzHm85rg) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/26 "2023-07-21T21:25:12Z")
Mustard, it made ME laugh a bit. Not for a quarter of an hour by any stretch, but it IS funny. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/27 "2023-07-21T21:38:55Z")
If I ever get a female platypus (TIL: they are called platipussy, right?) pet I am not going to call her Penelope, I’ll call her Galore. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/28 "2023-07-21T21:52:17Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > This just cracked me up Oh gawd me too! I was struck by an episode of helpless laughter that I have never forgotten the first time I saw _This Is Spinal Tap._ It’s a hilarious movie, but the scene that just about did me in was when the 6" high Stonehenge replica was lowered onto the stage. I think I’ll watch the chicken nuggers video again now. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2023, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/29 "2023-07-22T00:49:57Z")
There was a stretch of like 5 or 6 days where I was watching this 10 times a night and belly laughing every time. That was a few weeks ago and it’s still a side splitter. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/LO2k-BNySLI/maxresdefault.jpg "'Brian's Hat' Full Sketch - I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson Season 2") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2k-BNySLI) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2023, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/30 "2023-07-22T02:17:05Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > This just cracked me up and, to my eternal shame, I watch it over and over and over again. > > [Chicken Nugger French Fried Sweer Potato Kids Menu](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntyOzHm85rg) Sweer potatoes are by far the worst kind. > [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > If I ever get a female platypus (TIL: they are called platipussy, right?) pet I am not going to call her Penelope, I’ll call her Galore. I think **Galore** is a great name. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2023, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/31 "2023-07-22T11:51:59Z")
OK, it’s been two days and I have made progress. With effort, I can (usually) say the word “platypusary” without so much as cracking a smile. mmm ETA: I just re-read my post and chuckled. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2023, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/32 "2023-07-22T12:24:08Z")
Platapusary Galore Platapusary Galore Platapusary Galore 😁😁😁 ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2023, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/33 "2023-07-22T13:41:38Z")
In another thread about Scentsy it was a post about a fartsy that set me off ugly laughing Whew o needed that. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2023, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/34 "2023-07-22T14:55:08Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I’ve told the story before of how we once went to a new church, where we heard a sermon entitled “Jonah and His Three Boners”. We took a group of high school kids on a mission trip right after Hurricane Katrina to rebuild flood-damaged houses. Stayed Saturday night in a church basement in less-than-urban Tennessee. We felt obligated to attend their service the next morning… where the pastor made a big deal of their cornholing. None of us yanks had heard the term used for anything G-rated. We could NOT stop laughing (silently, but the back pew we were in was shaking). It didn’t help that the old men in the church were called up to the pulpit to persuade people: “Ah jes’ don’ see _whyyy_ we cain’t git more people _cornholin’._ It’s good clean fun, an’ you can even do it with a beer in yer other haind.” ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2023, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/35 "2023-07-22T21:46:29Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > This brought up her dislike of plain eggs. She doesn’t like the taste or smell of them and is grossed out when her husband makes himself fried eggs for breakfast. > > Her: “To me, it’s like eating a fart. He’s eating farts for breakfast and you’re having farts for dinner!” Back in college I worked at a pizza place that had a salad bar. One of the guys who worked day shift (where they did a lot of prep work between lunch and dinner) would put jokey labels on the salad bar tubs. For eggs he would put something like “solid chicken farts” or “smelly things from chicken butts”. He had to stop doing it when a customer saw one and complained to the manager. (And even now, 40 years later, I’m getting the giggles typing “solid chicken farts”!) 😂 ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2023, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/36 "2023-07-22T22:07:14Z")
I played Mae Peterson, the villain in _Bye, Bye, Birdie_, in our high school’s production. At one point in the show, Conrad Birdie dresses up as my character. During the dress rehearsal when I saw him for the first time this way, I laughed so hard I almost fell down, and took the rest of the cast with me. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2023, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/37 "2023-07-22T23:38:58Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > For eggs he would put something like “solid chicken farts” or “smelly things from chicken butts”. These turns of phrase are things of beauty. Thank you! I’ll be giggling all night now too. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2023, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/38 "2023-07-23T00:21:57Z")
Whenever I’m in need of a good laugh, this [old clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM&t=1s) always does the trick: ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2023, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/39 "2023-07-23T00:42:32Z")
Albert Brooks has always been able to completely break me up. I think it’s because he commits so completely, whether it’s his standup in the old days or his movies. The man looks like he’s never “broken” while delivering a funny line in his life. He made a movie called “Looking For Comedy In the Muslim World” a while ago in which he travels to various countries trying to discover what they find amusing. In India he gives a stage performance, and is stymied by the lack of support he gets from the sullen crew at the performing space. When told there’s no backstage area he asks for a tent where he can change clothes and be alone before the show. This is met with silent incredulity, but later we see they have gotten him his tent… A Native American tepee. It struck me all at once: Brooks sitting forlornly in his ridiculous stage wardrobe, in a tepee, in India. Where did they even get a tepee in India?! And did they do this intentionally as a f\*%$ you to Brooks? I was laughing so hard I had to stop the DVD. Not a great movie otherwise, but that moment just killed me. However, I have no doubt most people wouldn’t have had the same reaction. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2023, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338/40 "2023-07-23T00:55:40Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > For eggs he would put something like “solid chicken farts” or “smelly things from chicken butts”. I once dated a guy whose mother was susceptible to the power of suggestion to an inordinate degree. He and his brother were aware of this quality in their mom and had fun with it. So one day they were waiting in a drive-thru line at a Taco Bell. They pulled up to the speaker phone and Mom asked her sons, “What would you like me to order for you?” The boys, in unison, “We want chicken vaginas!” And Mom ordered… yes. Yes, she did. It took awhile to clarify that she meant chicken fajitas. To this day, I slow down before ordering chicken fajitas. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-something-strikes-you-as-funny-and-you-just-cannot-stop-laughing/987338.md?page=3)