Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Things that make me giggle.
Have you ever seen or heard or thought of something that made you laugh and no one around thinks it's funny? It's usually something silly and not to complicated but it reaches in and touches you in that place in all of us that is silly and not too complicated.
I was once watching the Olympics with my friend Darren. (No, not another story about the Olympics. Ya know, they still haven't written me back about my ideas.) We were watching the hurdles and the runners were in the blocks. They had just done that thing where they go from the crouch to the "butt-in-the-air thing." Now, I know that some "professor of running" could give us a half dozen reasons for the "butt-in-the-air thing," but I wouldn't be surprised to find that it showed up somewhere around the time women's running caught on. Anyway, the runners, or at least their butts, rose into the air, and just then Darren burst out with "Smoke a cigarette!" You're thinking "Huh?" If you don't understand this, it refers to an old children's trick. You were going to have a race and you were the starter and you say "On your marks...get set...Smoke a cigarette!" and everybody false starts and it is very funny. No...no..believe me, when your eight years old, that is ass kickin' humor. So, at the moment of Olympic competition before us, the thought of an official not firing his pistol and instead saying "Smoke a cigarette" turned a key inside me and I almost died laughing.
I don't think for a second that I could convey that feeling to you or expect you to find it remotely funny but hopefully you have had such a moment in your life. If not, I can let you in on one more of mine in the hopes that you too will get a giggle.
My uncle Jack sent me a link that, at first, didn't work but I finally got it. It is a foreign web site and rather than giving you the address and finding that the page was gone or changed at a later date, I decided to find the film clip on the original page, and re-publish it myself. (I'll change this post later when I remove the clip.)
I have seen some cool remote control aircraft in my day, but this has to take the grand prize. I can't watch this clip without bursting into the giggles. If you don't have high speed Internet you may want to wait until you have access because the file is about 5 megs. Here it the place to find the clip:
http://www.geocities.com/lornahawley/
Enjoy!
Have you ever seen or heard or thought of something that made you laugh and no one around thinks it's funny? It's usually something silly and not to complicated but it reaches in and touches you in that place in all of us that is silly and not too complicated.
I was once watching the Olympics with my friend Darren. (No, not another story about the Olympics. Ya know, they still haven't written me back about my ideas.) We were watching the hurdles and the runners were in the blocks. They had just done that thing where they go from the crouch to the "butt-in-the-air thing." Now, I know that some "professor of running" could give us a half dozen reasons for the "butt-in-the-air thing," but I wouldn't be surprised to find that it showed up somewhere around the time women's running caught on. Anyway, the runners, or at least their butts, rose into the air, and just then Darren burst out with "Smoke a cigarette!" You're thinking "Huh?" If you don't understand this, it refers to an old children's trick. You were going to have a race and you were the starter and you say "On your marks...get set...Smoke a cigarette!" and everybody false starts and it is very funny. No...no..believe me, when your eight years old, that is ass kickin' humor. So, at the moment of Olympic competition before us, the thought of an official not firing his pistol and instead saying "Smoke a cigarette" turned a key inside me and I almost died laughing.
I don't think for a second that I could convey that feeling to you or expect you to find it remotely funny but hopefully you have had such a moment in your life. If not, I can let you in on one more of mine in the hopes that you too will get a giggle.
My uncle Jack sent me a link that, at first, didn't work but I finally got it. It is a foreign web site and rather than giving you the address and finding that the page was gone or changed at a later date, I decided to find the film clip on the original page, and re-publish it myself. (I'll change this post later when I remove the clip.)
I have seen some cool remote control aircraft in my day, but this has to take the grand prize. I can't watch this clip without bursting into the giggles. If you don't have high speed Internet you may want to wait until you have access because the file is about 5 megs. Here it the place to find the clip:
http://www.geocities.com/lornahawley/
Enjoy!
// posted by Chris @ Tuesday, November 30, 2004
