Hilarity Ensues

Friday, November 21, 2008

Reagan Rulz.

[via Thinklings]

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Funny…

[via Thinkling Bill]

Friday, October 24, 2008

I asked Beau if I could tell this tale on him. He doesn’t think it’ll be funny to anyone but us, but we’ll see.

We both wear Breathe Right strips on our noses at night. I, because of my pregnancy congestion. He, because of his general nighttime congestion. With Beau there are two factors to consider: 1) he thinks it is wasteful not to try to reuse the strips, so he tries to reuse and 2) he often has his head under a pillow at times in the night. So over the past couple of weeks, when Beau has awoken he has found the strip to be anywhere but on his nose. Once he found it on his underwear. Once I found it stuck to the comforter. This morning he said, “Guess where the nose strip ended up?” I had no clue. “On my forehead.”

I busted out laughing.

“That’s not the best part, though,” he continued. “I woke up at one point and it was on my finger, so I put it back on my nose.”

I continued to laugh hard enough that I started to cry. That’s priceless.

On my own night weirdness front, my dreams continue to be bizarre. The other night I dreamed that Beau and I were good friends with Todd and Sarah Palin. In the dream we were just hanging out with them. Then last night I dreamed that Sarah Palin and I were hanging on the Straight Talk Express bus, but we never talked politics. We talked about babies, just mom to mom. It was great.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

This column is laugh out loud funny.

How To Make Fun of Obama

I wonder if Obama would laugh at it, though. I don’t see self-deprecation in him much.

[Oops, forgot to include the via - Thinklings]

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

My new favorite humor blog - CakeWrecks.

[via granny]

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Here.

There is adult content.

Quote of the Day: Home is where the heart is, so your real home’s in your chest.

Friday, July 18, 2008

Going back to the funny thing that Glenn Beck did last night about silly laws on the books in our country, here are a few in California alone that just boggle the mind:

1. It is illegal to set a mousetrap without a hunting license. (Beck mentioned this one.)

2. In L.A. it is against the law to complain through the mail that a hotel has cockroaches, even if it is true.

3. In Blythe, California, a person must own two cows in order to legally wear cowboy boots in public.

4. Redwood City has outlawed the frying of gravy.

5. In Los Angeles, you cannot bathe two babies in the same tub at the same time. (I wonder how many parents break this law daily?)

I couldn’t watch yesterday, but here’s the link to Dr. Horrible, Act II.

I love the first song.

The Glenn Beck show was fantastic. We laughed ourselves silly and had moments with misty eyes and left inspired. I’m half tempted to write in his name when I vote in November.

One thing Beck mentioned that had us howling (among many, actually) that I knew I had to look up is the story about the warning from feds about the increase in TB cases because of Mexican illegal street cheese.

Or “bathtub cheese” as it is also called.

Bathtub cheese.

He also mentioned the crazy laws in California. My favorites:

1. A regulation in San Francisco makes it unlawful to use used underwear to wipe off cars in a car wash.

2. No person shall produce, test, maintain, or store within the city a nuclear weapon, component of a nuclear weapon, nuclear weapon delivery system, or component of a nuclear weapon delivery system under penalty of Chapter 9.60.030 of the Chico Municipal Code.

He mentioned that #2 was actually about nuclear weapon detonation and a $500 fine for whomever detonated the nuke. Funny, right? We howled. But that one turns out to be an urban legend.

Anyway, the show was very fun and well worth the cost of the tickets, gas, babysitter, and lack of sleep.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

She’s hilarious.

And I totally agree with her. Choice quote:

I read a LOT of blogs, and I also read a LOT of blogs written by females (I’d say 75% of the blogs I read are written by women) (and WOW I am apparently really in love with percentages today). So all this week I’ve been rather bored by The Topic of BlogHer.

[...]

What sucks is that - all next week? Guess what I get to read?

A. BLOGHER WAS AWESOME! I met Dooce! She was SO COOL. And tall. And just as funny in person. She promised she’d visit my blog! Hi, Heather! *

Go read the whole thing, please, to get the rest of the multiple choice answers.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Brilliant!

Thursday, July 10, 2008

We went to dinner with our small group last night. Merry arrived right on time, as we were struggling to try to feed Jesse some English muffin pizzas. He was having none of it. And then Merry walked into the kitchen and he was happy to see her until he realized that seeing her meant Mom and Dad were leaving. That’s when his lower lip went into full on pout mode.

I really need to take a picture of him when he screws up his face like that. It’s amazing how frowny he gets - every muscle in his face is in play and it’s fun-ny.

So he started crying like his heart was breaking into a thousand pieces. We kissed him, said we’d be back, and went to dinner. Merry was left to fend for her own dinner, which ended up being a Totino’s pizza, which she shared with Jesse.

We enjoyed our time with our friends and got home a couple of hours later. As I drove Merry home I asked how long Jesse cried after we left. She said, “As soon as you pulled the door closed he stopped and gave me a big grin.” Poser.

She said he ate well and they had a good time playing before she put him to bed. That’s a good thing - we’re hiring her to watch him while we look at houses on Saturday and then she’ll sit him again next week when we go to the Glenn Beck comedy show simulcast.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Based on two reviews I read just today (in addition to the others I’ve seen as well), I have removed The Happening from the viewing queue. What follows may contain spoilers.

First negative review was Jan’s:

The Happening feels like someone came up with a really great concept: “Hey, what if the plants decided to get rid of humans?” “Yeah, and people just started dying!” “Yeah!” And then they filmed that. Leaving out one little thing… what was the point?

Here’s a synopsis:
The wind blows.
People get confused.
People kill themselves.
The wind blows.
More dead bodies.
The wind blows some more.
More different and inventive ways for people to kill themselves.
Then it stops.
Or does it…
The End.

Don’t worry… there’s no spoiler here. The spoiler would be letting it slip that they forgot an ending for the movie. The unexpected surprise was that there was no more movie, when the credits rolled at just over 90 minutes.

Basically the same thing that Jared said, but he has the line that made me snort out loud in my office.

Stupid. Stupid stupid stupid.
This movie is not just bad. It is beyond bad. It is Ed Wood bad, only not entertainingly bad.
I want to set this movie on fire and pee on it.

Italics mine. So funny.

And sad. I like Shamaylan’s movies. I even gave Lady in the Water 3 stars for all of its flaws. I loved Signs and The Sixth Sense and count myself among others who consider Unbreakable to be his best.

But for him to get such awful reviews means I will not bother. Sad.

Watch me when the DVD comes out, though. I’ll find myself trying to rent it. You who saw it need to stop me, OK?

There won’t be much political blogging here as we lead up to the election. I’m tired of the elevation of the Obama cult. I’m not thrilled with the GOP nominee. It’s a complete mess and I’m very tired of it all. However, the story of Obama’s faux presidential seal brouhaha is too rich to leave alone. I first thought it had to be some parody by a blogger online, but it turns out to be some nitwit idea by someone in the Obama campaign. How completely arrogant - I wonder if they were planning to make it the real Presidential seal after his coronation in November.

WASHINGTON (Map, News) - After days of media mockery, Barack Obama has decided to stop using a presidential-looking seal that his campaign designed and affixed to his podium on Friday.

Journalists said the seal, which features an eagle clutching arrows and an olive branch, smacks of arrogance. John McCain’s camp had a field day, calling the seal “laughable, ridiculous, preposterous and revealing - all at the same time.”

The seal was conspicuously missing from Obama’s lectern when he spoke to a group of women in Albuquerque on Monday. Not surprising, given how much grief Obama took from a normally laudatory press corps after unveiling the seal at an appearance in Chicago on Friday.

There follows quotes that I would never have expected to see from members of the media who did all that they could to ensure that Obama is the left’s nominee. My favorite is the Quote of the Day:

“The Audacity of Hype,” cracked ABC’s Jake Tapper. “No word on whether they played a remix of ‘Hail to the Chief’ as Obama walked in.”

Ha!

Amazingly, it was the media reaction that caused the campaign to dump the seal. I wonder how the campaign would have reacted if the media hadn’t said anything about it?

Friday, June 20, 2008

[via Jared]