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It’s been a couple of months now since I wrote one of these, but I’d like to resurrect them. I love a good laugh and so when I find little nuggets of hilarity, no matter how offensive, I will post them here.

This week’s first funny comes from an unfortunate typo story as recounted on fmylife.com, which leads me to this week’s second funny: the whole fmylife.com site. Very offensive in most cases, but very funny. Funny because so much of it is stuff most people can relate to in some way.

On to something even more disturbing. By now you’ve probably heard of the new Doritos Guru Contest to name their new chip flavour and submit a campaign around it (brilliant idea from the Doritos folks, btw – free advertising and free creative. Nicely done; my hat’s off to you!) Here’s one from a friend of a friend… his idea: Searing Cheese.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4ohF9XZi1Q

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I put my ipod through the laundry. Oddly they don’t stand up to that.

Yeah, that’s not really so funny I guess… well, maybe for you, I don’t know. But at least now I have a good excuse to go get another one; I just simply cannot go for a run without one, so off I go to Future Shop.

I do. All the time. And there are times, particulary when I’m stressed out, that I enjoy a good laugh more than others. So yesterday, I put out a question to my trusty Twitter followers, asking for them to hook me up with laugh links.

Here’s what they came up with…

The first is from Failblog, where I should always remember to go when I feel a need to take myself to the edge of peeing my pants:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYckGMNknQw

Then, my friend Karl Woll of Outdoor Vancouver sent me this Excessive Ping Pong Celebration video… which gets funnier and funnier the more you watch it, particularly when you realise the music is edited in for the video and this guy was celebrating to just the music in his own head.

This next video made me laugh so hard I felt uncomfortable but did manage to forward it to my one black colleague… I figured he’d get as much of a kick out of it as the Stuff White People Like blog he was enjoying in the office a couple of weeks ago.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWblCaFL1lc

Next up, dinosaurs, pigs, farts and stuff…

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWRDjTm1wto

Then this one shows how I feel during the night with a snoring husband, only this baby is cuter than I am and doesn’t assault the snorer with a poorly disguised kick.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEUVwfp8gF8

The Piece de Resistance was this offering from @GodFodder who sent me a Whose Line Is It Anyway sketch featuring Richard Simmons… worthy of forwarding all ’round the office. Not sure my General Manager really thought it was as funny as I did, but whatev.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ_lXJTaT5g

I still maintain laughter is good for the soul.

Photo: lepiaf.geo on Flickr

Well, this week I am lounging in Cancun, and this post is all that’s left of me in the real world. I did, however, want to make sure that I share a funny while I’m away…

I got this email forward from my mother in law. I am not normally a fan of email forwards, but I did find this one really funny. As it’s a forward I don’t know where it came from, nor to I know who these images belong to. If they’re yours, I’m sorry. Let me know and I’ll link it up.

If they’re not yours… enjoy!

25 Interesting things you find out from boys

1. A king size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq. ft. house 4 inches deep.
2. If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run over them with roller blades, they can ignite.
3. A 3-year old Boy’s voice is louder than 200 adults in a crowded restaurant.
4. If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not strong enough to rotate a 42 pound Boy wearing Batman underwear and a Superman cape. It is strong enough, however, if tied to a paint can, to spread paint on all four walls of a 20×20 ft. room.
5. You should not throw baseballs up when the ceiling fan is on. When using a ceiling fan as a bat, you have to throw the ball up a few times before you get a hit. A ceiling fan can hit a baseball a long way.
6. The glass in windows (even double-pane) doesn’t stop a baseball hit by a ceiling fan.
7. When you hear the toilet flush and the words ‘uh oh’, it’s already too late.
8. Brake fluid mixed with Clorox makes smoke, and lots of it.
9. A six-year old Boy can start a fire with a flint rock even though a 36- year old Man says they can only do it in the movies.
10. Certain Lego’s will pass through the digestive tract of a 4-year old Boy.
11. Play dough and microwave should not be used in the same sentence.
12. Super glue is forever.
13. No matter how much Jell-O you put in a swimming pool you still can’t walk on water.
14. Pool filters do not like Jell-O.
15. VCR’s do not eject ‘PB & J’ sandwiches even though TV commercials show they do.
16. Garbage bags do not make good parachutes.
17. Marbles in gas tanks make lots of noise when driving.
18. You probably DO NOT want to know what that odor is.
19. Always look in the oven before you turn it on; plastic toys do not like ovens.
20. The fire department in Austin! , TX has a 5-minute response time.
21. The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make earthworms dizzy.
22. It will, however, make cats dizzy.
23. Cats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy.
24. 80% of Women will pass this on to almost all of their friends, with or without kids.
25. 80% of Men who read this will try mixing the Clorox and brake fluid.

Now it’s your turn to share

Do you have boys? Know boys? I’d love to add to this list with the funny things boys do and see some links to more pics!

Photo: wasaby on Flickr

So this week has been filled with a little craziness. Work has been busy; I’ve been dealing with some injuries; and driving has been rediculous as people went back to work after Snowmageddon. I’ve honestly seen places where I was quite certain someone would die unless something was done about the sidewalks…

Anyway, here are some fun finds of the week to make it all better:

I was commenting on Tuesday about a woman who brought her two sons into a public women’s washroom. The boys were probably 10 and 12 – no joke. I really think she should have saved them the total embarassment they so obviously felt and just went into the mens with them if she was so worried about it.

Anyway, after a quick discussion about it on twitter, the Ask A Urinal site came to my attention, quite by accident. Certainly fitting, though, and definitely funny.

Then one of my bloggers on Grouse Park Sessions posted this hilarious tip on how to deal with fogged up goggles. I can’t explain the many ways this makes me giggle.

My physiotherapy appointments have been funny all on their own, and quite the exercise in humility.

I’ve had a problem with my right hip for some time. It causes pain in my lower back and has been particularly troublesome in the last few weeks. I’m certain it’s from a combination of one-sided activities (8 years of kickboxing plus snowboarding) and running (which is just generally hard on the body) with very little stretching and weight training to speak of. Anyway, the first time I showed up my physiotherapist ended up being a guy I’d gone to high school with… okay, so I’m an adult now and I can deal, right? Not so much. I had to stand in front of him, facing away while he sat with his head at my butt level and his hands on my hips… then what do I have to do? Bend forward and touch my toes. WHAT?! Um… m-kay. It never ceases to surprise me some of the positions we get into that would absolutely NOT be okay if it wasn’t a professional situation. Kind of strange that it’s okay when it’s for the pursuit of a properly functioning body. But things seem to be getting better.

So, uh, would you get a WordPress logo tattooed on you? If you really want to, I’d like to suggest you go with Billy – he’s great, despite the state of his website. Don’t worry, I’m going to fix it soon.

Favourite quote of the week: “click my junk” from Mashable’s FOLLOW FAIL: The top 10 reasons I will not follow you in return on Twitter in reference to auto-DM “thank you for following now click my junk” messages.

Thanks to the very talented Jess Sloss, I came upon this post called Lists That Aren’t Interesting, by Jay Grandin. At first I was wondering why he wrote a list about bowel movements, but it did get funnier from there. And, well, as I’ve said before, my favourite 0ne liner from a movie comes from the monkey in Madagascar, “If you have any poo, fling it now.”

So really, yeah, all my funny stuff I find on Twitter. Twitter got hacked. And phished. And here are 15 Tweets that tell the story from Sarah Jones-Larson.

And last, but certainly not least, the funniest find of the week: Combover for Science!

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k83ECj4mGz0

Oh, but wait, there’s more: Combover Revolution!

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgdDTc1eh34

Well, that’s it for this week… see you next time!

Photo: Toronja Azul on Flickr

There are so many things about Christmas that sort of take away from the holiday: the angry shoppers, road rage and rudeness. There are the guys who threw a planter through my church’s glass front door yesterday or the car insurance claims caused by slick roads. There are family arguments over who will make the turkey or who will get Christmas Day vs. Christmas Eve, or whether or not the inlaws will get to see their grandchildren at all this year.

Whatever challenges you face this year, try and think about all the reasons why Christmas is fun.

• Decorating the tree
• finding the perfect gift for that someone special
• sledding and snowmen
• laughing at bad wrapping jobs
• horrendous Christmas sweaters
• Bailey’s in your morning coffee
• kisses under the mistletoe
• playing Santa & Mrs. Claus *wink wink*
• listening to some really outdated Christmas music on the radio
• watching the yule log on TV
• spending time with friends and family…

There are so many reasons why Christmas is fun and not all work… take the time to enjoy those fun moments and let the stressful ones roll off. What do you find most fun about Christmas?

Here’s my favourite fun moment of the season so far: My mini-man’s pride at his work of art.

Photo: SharkeyinColo on Flickr

This week was much better than last. While I’ve been down and out with a cold, winter season started and I got a chance to get out on my Snowboard last weekend, so that’s always a nice start to my week. Here are my fun finds for the week:

Monica Hamburg  on twitter put me on to Not Hired – “dedicated to all those who wonder why no one has called to set up an interview…” – some good stuff on there! Sort of like True Office Confessions, but for HR professionals to dish on the worst applicants or least-promotable.

I saw this ad for Helzberg Diamonds while watching Superbikes with big-man on Sunday. So funny to see how targeted ads are on different shows and networks:

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My favourite FAIL from failblog in recent history:

Nice.

And, um, thanks to the guys at Highly Obsessed, I stumbled upon this bit of i-dunno-what-to-call-it… I’m not sure what the boys over at DC are up to, but this strange commercial (?) featuring Devun Walsh and Iikka Backstrom is entirely too weird for me. I’m not the target market, clearly. Not even a little.

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Oh yeah, and the folks over at the Student Doctor Network sure get some funny stories to share on a forum. Awesome.

In the spirit of the festive season of non-denominational holiday celebrations I bring you a little icanhascheezburger…

And absolutely last, but certainly not least, I was just browsing twitter before going to bed and happend upon what is suddenly my favourite tweet of the week from @unclespeedo.

A scanned PDF file of three pieces of cardboard. Awesome.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyzFdbGqjm0&hl=en]

I think it’s dangerous to be too strict with parenting.