Some silly things that made me laugh

  • Joy buzzerI’ve been really want­ing to write some impor­tant blog entry that just ties up all the loose ends and makes sense out of it all. Not for other peo­ple, of course — what am I, Con­fu­cius? — but just in my own lim­ited abil­ity to be all right with the world. But what are you going to do? Is there any one of the big loom­ing cur­rent events that lends itself to hav­ing a lovely 300-word-plus-clip-art bow tied around it? Check­ing the head­lines, we see:

    • Immi­gra­tion issue — com­plex and unsolvable
    • Ter­ror­ism at home — fright­en­ing and terrible
    • Mideast cri­sis (no. MXCVIII in a series) — hope­less and awful

    Good grief, they even man­aged to dredge up some­body who says he killed Jon Benet Ram­sey and we can’t get closure!

    I’m sorry. I hate pre­tend­ing to be more jaded and cyn­i­cal than I am, but there’s enough in the papers right now to make a per­son nearly insane. So that must be the rea­son I’m inclin­ing toward dumb, point­less or juve­nile humor these days. What the heck, right? If being a grown-up isn’t going to pay off, must be time to just for­get about heavy think­ing and laugh at stu­pid stuff.

    And judg­ing from some of the stops on the Ortho-blogosphere tour, I’m not the only one.

    A quick perusal found lit­tle in the way of deep cog­i­ta­tion, but …

    • Alana has a thought­ful gift for the bud­ding monas­tic in all of us.

      Your com­mute becomes a time of bless­ing and not curs­ing, when road rage and curs­ing is trans­formed into soul-illumining prayer thanks to the INFLATANABBOTT™ rid­ing shot-gun!

      No longer will you be tempted to waste your evenings watch­ing mind­less TV, for with the INFLATANABBOTT™ in your liv­ing room, Kathis­mas are the order of the day!

      DON”T WAIT! ORDER NOW! Plas­tochristodou­los, Inc. has oper­a­tors stand­ing by and wait­ing for YOUR IMPORTANT CALL! 1–555-ABBOTTS

    • E Rica posted the lat­est in the now-classic “Fart­ing Preacher” series. All right, so this is majorly low-brow humor. But I haven’t been able to make it through any of this series with­out laugh­ing so much my face hurts. (Do you ever won­der who this poor schlub is? How would you like to be more famous for your humorously-embellished ser­mons than for the real thing? Well, I can’t feel too sorry for him. Does he have to keep scrunch­ing up his face like that every time he makes a point? It was just a mat­ter of time before the bad kids in church got hold of some video pro­duc­tion programs.)
    • S-p at Pith­less Thoughts passes along a sen­si­tive lit­tle cry for help that’s sure to tug the heart-strings of any­one who has heart-strings to tug:

      I hope you will help me. You can help me if you for­ward this email to every­one you know. For­ward it to peo­ple you don’t know, too. Dr. Johansen said that for every per­son you for­ward this email to, Bill Gates will team up with AOL and send a nickel to NASA. With that fund­ing, NASA will col­lect prayers from school chil­dren all over Amer­ica and have the astro­nauts take them up into space so that the angels can hear them better.

    Come on, that’s just funny stuff.


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    August 20th, 2006 | Grace | 7 Comments |

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  • Word­mama 08.20.2006

    The Fart­ing Preacher is a tel­e­van­ge­list named Robert Tilton who has a less-than-spotless rep­u­ta­tion as a man of God; Google him and you’ll see what I mean. Appar­ently he thor­oughly deserves all the bad atten­tion he’s get­ting. I read some­where that those spasms of his were intended to look like he was receiv­ing direct com­mu­ni­ca­tions from the Holy Spirit. Methane is too good for him!

  • Grace

    Word! ( — ha ha. That’s a pun on your name. Oh never mind.)

    I thought I’d heard some­thing like that about this dude. Well, he’s pro­vid­ing a lot of laughs in the world whether he wants to or not.

  • Erica

    LOL! Col­lect chil­dren and take them up to heaven so the angels can hear them bet­ter. Ohhhh boy.

  • Grace

    Yep, it’s a goody all right. I don’t know if you went to the link, but you really need to read the whole thing. It’s just a tragic tale.

  • Mimi

    Tee hee.

  • Erica

    I want the link!

  • Grace

    The link was care­fully hid­den in the words “Pith­less Thoughts” above (just as yours was in your name). But here it is again — http://pithlessthoughts.blogspot.com/2006/08/piti…

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