Hoo Boy! Three Fun Facts About Me?
1. I have a great sense of humor. I love hearing or reading jokes and telling them. I've learned over the years to censor the jokes I told years ago in the locker room, but I still have a lot of jokes to tell.
A man walks into a bar and says, "Bartender, give me a Martinus."
The bartender looks perplexed and answers, "You mean a Martini?"
The man says, "If I wanted more than one, I'd ask for it."
What do you get when you cross and police officer with a flamingo? Pink Fuzz.
Two guys were playing golf, one hit his ball into some flowers and the other into shrubs. The first man swung his club and tore up some buttercups. The Goddess of the Glen appeared and said, "You've ruined my buttercups, for the rest of your life you can't eat butter. He yelled over to his buddy, "Where are you at?"
His friend said, "I'm here in the pussy willows." The first man yelled, "Don't hit them! Don't hit them.
I prefer to watch comedies than any other types of entertainment. The Marx Brothers, Bob Hope, Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Abbot and Castello, Laurel and Hardy, Steve Martin. Lily Tomlin, Grady Nut, Chonda Pierce, Rita Rudner, Phylis Diller, etc. I grew up watching sit coms from I love Lucy, Dick Van Dyke Show, to WKRP in Cincinnati, Cheers, Becker, All in the Family, Happy Days That Girl, Mary Tyler Moore Show. Was there ever a cast better than the Carol Bernette Show? The first five years of Saturday Night Live, even Hee Haw and Rowan and Martin's Laugh In. You could watch and laugh your head off.
I couldn't get through half an episode of The Office, Big Bang Theory or any sit com since Becker. I have the complete box set of Becker DVD's and whenever we're in need of laughs we watch them. No matter how many times we watch them they are funny. The Thanksgiving episode of WKRP in Cincinatti is the funniest show ever filmed. Abbot and Castellow's "Who's on First," is the greatest routine ever done.
They were funny and clean. Groucho Marx once said, "If you have to be dirty to be funny, you're not funny."
The eighties and nineties the sit coms were all about putting each other down, insults, pranks. The movies think being gross is funny. Okay off my soapbox.
2. As an English teacher who also taught psychology, I am great at analysis. It drives my wife crazy. We watch murder mystery shows and I've figured out who did it before the first commercial. Somehow that ruins it for her. It came in handy when working for an attorney. When a new client hired him, he had me look over all the documents and organize them. I'd read all of them while scanning them and write a synopsis of the case. Helped him sometimes, others he'd fill me in on what the law thinks against common sense.
3. I love trivia. I'm a fountain of knowledge on the most arcane and useless information out there. My wife refuses to play trivial pursuit with me. She likes Scrabble, she can beat me at that.
11 comments:
I love the Martinus joke. Going to have to remember that one. Did you ever play trivia on IRC?
What great stories.
And, yeah, I don’t like comedies that involve putting people down either.
Great jokes! Also, I know what you mean about Becker. It does have a rather comforting quality about it. I removed my previous comment, because auto correct did not perform adequately. 🤣
Stephan, glad you like it. I don't do stuff on the internet like that.
Thanks, Lydia.
George, autocorrect bugs me a lot too.
Comedies based on insults or comedies that rely on putting characters in embarrassing positions are pretty well lost on me; I have no taste for either setup. And the WKRP Thanksgiving episode was pure genius, the high point of a show that was thoroughly brilliant.
My partner and I are both trivia fiends, we both love quiz shows and she's the only person who's ever been able to beat me at Trivial Pursuit!
Glad we agree, Michael.
It's a rare gift, Cassie.
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