The Humor Effect: Aiming to Misbehave

Saturday, July 30, 2005

Click here for my idea of hilarity!

But, yes. When I tell people that my car (which I am still, in fact, too young to drive for several months) is a piece of crap, I get a variety of reactions. Mostly shared laughter, with a rare hint of superiority.

One reaction I get fairly often, however, is "at least it's a car", which is a sentiment I could not agree with more. The thing is, I don't think most people would view me as sane if I started running around saying what was on my mind ("HOLY SHIT I HAVE A CAR!!!ONE! I ROCK!") as I proceed to strip nearly nude and run across the nearest highway, flaunting my new acquisition.


If you think I'm obnoxious now, wait till I get my license

With friends like these, who needs anemones?

I'd like to talk about things being corny, for a second. I don't belive in it. I'll moan at a bad line in a movie just as much as the next guy, but I don't believe people can be corny in real life, you can't be cliche. When you're giving advice, and you say, "aw, this may sound corny, but" because it sounds like something your parents would say, that's a good thing.

Things become cliched because they're overused, and guess what: advice that's given out so much that it just sounds like rhetoric is probably some of the best advice around. We're talking about the creme de la creme here, the tidbits that have survived the test of time to become the phrases that seemed relevant the first time, but now just seem retarded.

The next time I hear something like that, I'm going to pretend like I've never heard before, and that's when I'm going to realize what good advice really is.

/gets down from soapbox
//remembers something, gets back up

I'd also like to share my new slogan. You're breathing, you're eating; fucking smile.

I think it's poetic. Give a beret and some bongos, we'll have a whole new movement on our hands.

Thursday, July 28, 2005

Ahh...innocence.

I just want to say that there is very little that is so simultaneously gut-bustingly hilarious and absolutely miserable as a group of about 50 six year old kids singing "Hollaback Girl." How could anyone ever think our culture was going downhill?

Sunday, July 24, 2005

Technology

I made some tin can walkie-talkies, but I have no one to use them with.