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  maryw : ponderer

Jokes and Laughs

maryw said Dec 4, 2006, 6:10 PM:

 

Bring 'em on, peeps! Jokes, that is: bad or good, pre or trans, flatland or 4-quad …

  maryw : ponderer

Re: Jokes and Laughs

maryw said Dec 4, 2006, 6:14 PM:

 

Monica first posted this in the I-I forums –

A Funny Comparison of Relgions

Taoism: Shit happens.
Agnosticism: I don't know if shit happens.
Confucianism: Confucius say, “Shit happens.”
Calvinism: Shit happens because you don't work hard enough.
Buddhism: If shit happens, it really isn't shit.
7th Day Adventist: No shit on Saturdays.
Zen: What is the sound of shit happening?
Hedonism: There is nothing like a good shit happening.
Hinduism: This shit happened before.
Mormonism: This shit is going to happen again.
Islam: If shit happens, it is the will of Allah.
Moonies: Only happy shit really happens.
Stoicism: This shit is good for me.
Protestantism: Let the shit happen to someone else.
Catholicism: Shit happens because you deserve it.
Hare Krishna: Shit happens, rama rama.
Judaism: Why does this shit always happen to US?
Zoroastrianism: Shit happens half the time.
Christian Science: Shit is in your mind.
Atheism: I don't believe in shit.
Existentialism: What is shit, anyway?
Rastafarianism: Let's smoke this shit.
Psychic: Erase this shit.
New Age: You are totally shit free here and now.
Unitarian Universalist: What is this shit.
Jehovah's witness: Knock knock, shit happens.
TV Evangelism: Send more shit and smile.
Integral Bunch: Include & transcend this shit.

And my personal favorite….

Jedi Knights: May the shit be with you!

  marigpa : bodhi fractal

Re: Jokes and Laughs

marigpa said Dec 5, 2006, 12:07 AM:

 

Hinduism reincarnated: Holy cowshit

Realism: This holy cowshit stinks

Ch’an: No shit

  marigpa : bodhi fractal

Re: Jokes and Laughs

marigpa said Dec 5, 2006, 12:48 AM:

 

The One - abbees: There is no shit

  Joe : Thinker

The Atheist dial prayer

Joe said Dec 5, 2006, 4:45 AM:

 

Did you hear about the athesist dial a prayer?

You call this number and it keeps ringing and ringing.

Joe

  Monica : >

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Monica said Dec 5, 2006, 3:20 PM:

 
 

Originally posted in my Laughter is Good Medicine Pod !

Freudianism
- I am fascinated by this shit! Tell me about your mother's shit.
Jungianism - I am in sync with this shit.
Slackerism - I hate this shit.
Whole Foodism - I like my shit organic and cage free.
Veganism - This shit needs more humus and sprouts.
Republicanism - Don't give a shit.
Democratic - Give shit to those in need.
Green Partyism - Save that shit!
Blue Collarism - Same shit, different day.
Southernism - Holy Sheeeeyit! 
Northernism - Shoot!
Politicalism - Talking shit.
Globalism - Spread that shit!
Nationalism - I pledge alliegiance to the shit.
Sterilism - My shit don't stink!
Fundamentalism - Only our shit exists.
Politically Correctism - Heavenly properties embued feces!! (holy shit!)
Pragmatism - This shit is good enough.
Eroticism - See Globalism.
Neanderthalism - Primal shit.
Gaiaism - The Mother of all Shit.
Bushism - Dumb shit!

  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Dec 5, 2006, 4:58 PM:

 

Taoism: the shit that can be named is not the eternal shit.
Robert Augustus Masters: Shit-Really-Matters
Helen: Craziii shit wot?
Stuart Davis: Shit is my koan of the day. Shit as a verb.
true-blue KW fans: We love Ken's shit!
HeartMind peeps: We are so past that shit.
those still in Integral Naked: There hasn't been much shit here lately.

  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Dec 5, 2006, 5:42 PM:

 

alternate Stu answer: This ain't no board game.  This is the deep shit.
Adi Da: I am the final shit.
Andrew Cohen: Shit evolves!
David Eggers: A Heartbreaking Shit of Staggering Stinkiness
George W. Bush: We shit over there so we don't get that shit happening over here.
libertarianism: hands off my shit.

  Liz : deLizious

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Liz said Dec 5, 2006, 5:48 PM:

 

“David Eggers: A Heartbreaking Shit of Staggering Stinkiness”

ROFL!

Adastra: Here's some interesting shit you should read.
Tamgoddess: I'm fucking tired of this shit!
MaryW: I'm contemplating this shit.
Balder: Feces happen in my subjective awareness.
DavidHoff: What should I do with this shit?
Jane: Shit has an aroma that takes me to another place…

  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Dec 5, 2006, 5:57 PM:

 

OK, I'm on the checkout desk, and you just made me literally

LOL

As the proctologist said to his receptionist:  send in the next asshole.

  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Dec 5, 2006, 7:46 PM:

 

Ken Wilber
  On the Colonic Nature of Reality: It's shit all the way down.
  On the Ultimate Realization: Shit is always already happening.

The Matrix: There is no shit - it is only your bowels which move.

Videodrome: Long live the revolution of the New Shit!  (Also under
                     consideration as an IIzaadz slogan.)

Bjork: All Is Full of Shit

the Bible: In the beginning was the Word - and the Word was Shit.

…and last but not least…

Shit on a plane!

  Liz : deLizious

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Liz said Dec 5, 2006, 8:02 PM:

 

Timothy Leary: Turn on, tune in, shit out
Krishna Das: Namah Shit-aya
Billie Holliday: God Bless the Child That’s Got His Own Shit

  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Dec 5, 2006, 8:36 PM:

 

James Brown: Papa's Got a Brand-New Shit

my current job: I check shit out.
nascent career path: Got any shit you need indexed?

  melv : new father

Re: Jokes and Laughs

melv said Apr 25, 2007, 3:48 PM:

 

well the dear anthro comrades i grew up with would say

this shit happens to teach us something

i say this shit is fookin great!

  maryw : ponderer

Re: Jokes and Laughs

maryw said Dec 5, 2006, 9:29 PM:

 

Heheheheheeeee …… ! You guys!

More on Integral Institute's Teachers, Artists, & Guests –

Genpo Roshi: Big Mind, Big Shit
Thomas Keating: Surrender to the presence and action of Shit.
Adyashanti: The Direct Shit: If all goes to shit, it's still shit–it can't possibly not be shit.
Diane Hamilton: I can facilitate the shit out of this shit.
David Deida: Masculine and Feminine Faces of Shit
Robert Augustus Masters: Shit Shining Wild
Wayne Teasdale: Out of the self, into the Shit.
Roger Walsh: Karma Shit
Fred Koffman: Shitting authentically
Sally Kempton: As God we shit.
Saul Williams: Hip Shit.
Alex Grey: Visionary X-ray shit
Nathaniel Branden: Taking responsibility after my years with Ayn the Shit Rand
Pema Chodron (not featured at I-I but what the hell): Shit Where You Are.

  Mascha : drop

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Mascha said Dec 5, 2006, 11:12 PM:

 

Mascha: (blubbering) Why can’t we all keep shitting in the same room?

Have I told you lately how much I appreciate the shit you shitheads put out?

I shit you not. It’s crap of the highest magnitude.

And Mary, when you say, “Now I really gotta run,” I understand. You’ve got the shits.

Oops, gotta go

  maryw : ponderer

Re: Jokes and Laughs

maryw said Dec 6, 2006, 1:46 AM:

 

Mascha: “Why can't we all keep shitting in the same room?”

Ahh, dear Mascha. I know, I know. (Though I suppose one answer might be: it gets kinda smelly).

Meanwhile, I think I got some more of the shits:

Don Beck: Spiral Shit
Tony Robbins: Unleash the Shit Within
Frances Vaughn: Paths Beyond Shit
Carolyn Myss: Shitting Intuitively
Bill Harris: Holoshit
Br. David Steindl-Rast: Gratefulness.shit
Tami Simon: Shits True
Reb Zalman Schacter-Shalomi: Oy Shit
Michael Crichton: State of Shit
Vernice Solimar: Shit and Spice
Sam Harris: The End of Shit
John Ince: Lusting for Shit

  Monica : >

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Monica said Dec 6, 2006, 9:34 AM:

 

LOL! You all are just sick and wrong.  ;-) But I must add….

Nurse Monica:
Cleaning up the shit.

  Lauren : mammal

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Lauren said Dec 6, 2006, 9:45 AM:

 

I always thought Hare Krishna was:

shit Happens, shit happens, shit shit, happens happens

  Liz : deLizious

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Liz said Dec 6, 2006, 10:30 AM:

 

Priceless, both of you!

It works best when you actually chant it out loud.

Liz

  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Dec 12, 2006, 9:06 AM:

 

Julian posted this funny seasonal tidbit in another thread…but it really belongs here:

 

Politically Corrrect Green Seasons Greetings!

Julian said Yesterday, 9:41 PM:

My girlfriend just sent this to me i think it's brilliant!

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all.
 
I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the generally accepted calendar year 2007, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere, and without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishes.

  Julian : integral healer

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Julian said Dec 12, 2006, 2:07 PM:

 

this is some funny shit!

i am so glad i stumbled onto this thread….

:O)

  Liz : deLizious

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Liz said Dec 12, 2006, 2:14 PM:

 

Julian: we need to ACT on this shit!
Arthur: I'm moving this shit to a different thread.

  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Dec 12, 2006, 2:53 PM:

 

  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Dec 12, 2006, 3:55 PM:

 

  maryw : ponderer

Re: Jokes and Laughs

maryw said Dec 15, 2006, 2:53 PM:

 

Anybody want to join me for some crooked crooning from the Dysfunctional Family Christmas Songbook?

“God Damn This Stupid Christmas Tree” (to the tune of “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”)

God damn these stupid Christmas lights! Who wound them up this way?
Remember last year I was still untangling Christmas Day?
Did someone take this cord of lights and use it to crochet?
Oh we tie things on branches that droop. Big friggin whoop.
We are tying things on branches that droop.

Let's not forget the popcorn string–that seasonal cliche.
Why is it no one mentions string one inch takes all day?
This trimming of the tree's as fun as New Year's at A.A.
We tie things on branches that droop. Big friggin whoop.
We are tying things on branches that droop.

And now get down the ornaments we finally packed last May.
Those tacky dime-store ornaments from back in Nixon's day.
There is just one that isn't broke–it's Barbie on a sleigh.
We'll tie her to branches that droop. Big friggin whoop.
We are tying things on branches that droop.

  maryw : ponderer

Re: Jokes and Laughs

maryw said Dec 15, 2006, 2:59 PM:

 

“Dinner Song” (to the tune of “Oh LIttle Town of Bethelehem”)

Oh giant lump of shiny ham how still you sit tonight.
Though you were made with love by Gram nobody took a bite.
“I don't eat meat,” said Cousin Pete and added his wife Sue:
“We all know that ham's full of fat and fat's not good for you.”

“Glazed ham is almost fiber-free,” said Auntie with a nudge.
“Just take a bite, you'll see tonight: Your bowels will not budge.”
“What's more,” said Dad, a-looking sad, “on cooked food I don't sup.
Don't know 'bout you, but when I do I cannot get it up.”

The little kids ate only fries, their folks on low carbs chewed.
Which left just me prepared to be the guest who eats real food.
But as I reached to take the ham my Gramps said Connie Chung
Once did a show and did I know that pigs eat their own dung?

It's been a year and still that dear old ham sits on the shelf.
And dear old gram, just like that ham, is looking grim herself.
She's not the same as when we came. She's lost her Christmas joy.
A vegan nut, she still cooks–but next year the ham is soy.

  maryw : ponderer

Re: Jokes and Laughs

maryw said Dec 15, 2006, 3:14 PM:

 

“Auld Dog Song” (to the tune of “Auld Lang Syne”)

Should old acquaintance be humped first
as I stand on legs so hind?
Or should I hump this brand new guest?
I can't make up my mind.
I guess I'll hump the old one first.
Oh yes, I'll hump him blind!
And then I'll sneak up on that guest
And sniff her old lang syne.

When I was just a tiny pup
I would play with ball and twine!
But now that I am all grown up
I poke where sun don't shine.
Oy yes, I poke my nose right in
So clammy, cold and wet!
That's simply my prerogative
As darling family pet.

Should unprepared guest find me rude
Because I'm so inclined
I'll back off, cute as Scooby Doo
Beloved by all mankind.
I'll cock my head and raise a paw,
Her brown eyes will meet mine
And when she comes to scratch my ears
I'll sniff her old lang syne.

  Nicole : wakingdreamer

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Nicole said Dec 15, 2006, 11:56 PM:

 

Star Trek Carols

Jean-Luc Picard (to the tune of ''Let It Snow'')
Oh, the vacuum outside is endless,
Unforgiving, cold, and friendless,
But still we must boldly go–
Make it so, make it so, make it so!


William Riker: (to the tune of ''Deck the Halls'')
Here's a vexing Christmas riddle:
(Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la, la la)
Why must I play second fiddle?
(Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la, la la)
How can I impress Deanna
(Fa-la-la, la-la-la, la la la)
When I'm number two banana?
(Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la, la la)


Wesley Crusher: (to the tune of ''God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen'')
I'm at Starfleet Academy,
And I'd just like to say
I miss the opportunity
To weekly save the day–
To make things worse, I have to be
In some dumb Christmas play!
Yes, I'm bright, though I'm just a teenaged boy,
Only a boy,
And the Enterprise was my most favourite toy!


Data: (to the tune of ''Jingle Bells'')
Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,
Jingle all the way!
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh–
or so I am reliably informed lacking a subjective
and intuitively perceived referent for the term ''fun,''
I am able only to report the phenomenon as experienced
by others, whose individual perceptions somewhat colour the–
yes, sir.


Worf: (to be to the tune of ''White Christmas'')
I'm dreaming of a dead Pakled,
Just like the one in Rec Deck Eight.
They all think they've hidden,
But this one didn't,
And I'm using him as bait.
I'm dreaming of a dead Pakled–
Their mental skills are rather lame.
May your foes die sonless, in shame–
And I hope you're wishing me the same!

  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Dec 16, 2006, 5:04 PM:

 

Bambi Meets Godzilla

  Gman : Rent this space

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Gman said Dec 17, 2006, 5:22 AM:

 

Here’s the lyrics to a classic Bob Rivers parody of of Winter Wonderland. (I heard this years ago, and by coincidence, the local radio station played it yesterday).

Lacy things – the wife is missin’,
Didn’t ask for her permission,
I’m wearin’ her clothes,
Her silk pantyhose,
Walkin’ ‘round in women’s underwear.

In the store – there’s a teddy,
With little straps – like spaghetti,
It holds me so tight,
Like handcuffs at night,
Walkin’ ‘round in women’s underwear.

In the office there’s a guy named Melvin,
He pretends that I am Murphy Brown.
He’ll say, “Are you ready?” I’ll say,”Whoa, Man!”
“Let’s wait until the wife is out of town!”

Later on, if you wanna,
We can dress – like Madonna,
Put on some eyeshade,
And join the parade,
Walkin’ ‘round in women’s underwear!

Lacy things… missin’,
Didn’t ask… permission,
Wearin’ her clothes,
Silk pantyhose,
Walkin’ ‘round in women’s underwear,
Walkin’ ‘round in women’s underwear,
Walkin’ ‘round in women’s underwear!

  Mascha : drop

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Mascha said Dec 21, 2006, 1:35 PM:

 

Ha ha, Gman, I knew a guy like that. He had ISSUES… But be that as it may – if “Jingle Bells” have started to bore the shit into you rather than out of ya, here is an old Monty Python stand-by that could help ~

(Children’s choir to the tune of “All Things Bright And Beautiful”)

ALL THINGS DULL AND UGLY

All things dull and u-hug-ly
All creatures short and squat
All things rude and na-ha-sty
The Lord God hath made the lot.

Each little snake that poisons
Each little wasp that stings
He made their prudish venom
He made their horrid wings.

All things sick and cancerous
All evil great and small
All things foul and dangerous
The Lord God hath made them all.

Each nasty little hornet
Each beastly little squid
Who made the spiky urchin?
Who made the sharks? He did!

All things scabbed and ulcerous
All pox both great and small
Putrid, foul and gangrenous
The Lord God hath made them all.

~ Amen ~

  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Dec 22, 2006, 3:58 PM:

 

This version of the parable parable of the blind humans and the pachyderm was written by Robert Anton Wilson:

Five stoned men were in a courtyard when an elephant entered.

The first man was stoned on sleep, and he saw not the elephant, but dreamed instead of things unreal to those awake.

The second man was stoned on nicotine, caffeine, DDT, carohydrate excess, protein defiancy, and the other chemicals in the diet which the Illuminati have enforced upon the half-awake to keep them from fully waking.

“Hey,” he said, “there's a big, smelly beast in our courtyard.”

The third stoned man was on grass, and he said, “No, dads, that's the Ghostly Old Party in it's true nature, the Dark Nix of the soul,” and he giggled in a silly way.

The fourth stoned man was tripping on peyote, and he said, “You see not the mystery, for the elephant is a poem written in tons instead of words,” and his eyes danced.

The fifth stoned man was on acid, and he said nothing, merely worshipping the elephant in silence as the Father of Buddha.

And then the Hierophant entered and drove a nail of mystery into all their hearts, saying, “You are all elephants!”

Nobody understood him.

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  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Dec 23, 2006, 10:33 AM:

 

Let's not forget the J-man on this holliday season.  Watch this video, it's pretty damn funny IMO.

Dr. Katz - Effeminiate Southern Jesus

  Liz : deLizious

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Liz said Dec 23, 2006, 11:49 AM:

 

Hilarious. Here's one that will remind everyone of somebody.

Myself, I go more for the Star Trek nerds than the Star Wars ones. Come to think of it, I haven't even dated anyone who wasn't since the 80's. Ha!

Liz

  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Jan 6, 2007, 10:15 AM:

 



 

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Patrick [no longer around] said Jan 6, 2007, 2:09 PM:

 

Here's a deep video…many things to be thought about. Deep..deep.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9goLXFJzSik


Patrick

  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Jan 23, 2007, 11:46 AM:

 

Boomeritis prayer…

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  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Jan 23, 2007, 7:35 PM:

 

“Some say reality is an illusion, a dream. Others claim it is whatever can be objectively measured and verified. And some say we create reality with our thoughts, intentions and wishes. I wish those people were dead.” - Stuart Davis, Love Has No Opposite, chapter one


  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Jan 25, 2007, 8:21 PM:

 

Liz pointed out this hilarious article to me a while ago…I remember those adolescent days…  :0

Sexual Tension Unbearable Between 15-Year-Old, Rest Of World

November 6, 2006 | Issue 42•45

MELBOURNE, FL—Palm Bay High School freshman Keith Ness said the overwhelming sexual tension he experiences daily between himself and roughly 3.65 billion other people on earth has become “almost more than [he] can handle.”

Sexual Tension R

Ness says he experiences “powerful, electric” sexual energy from almost exactly half the people he encounters.

“At first, I didn't even take much notice of the world around me,” said the 15-year-old of the charged but nebulous relationship he has enduredwith a majority of the human population. “But then, I found myself staring at the sexy way everyone walked down the hall, jogged in the park, or sat down at the bus stop. Something about that blond, brown, or red hair tied back, pinned up, or dreadlocked, really gets me going.”

“It's driving me crazy having to sit here while the world tempts me in those formfitting, playfully conservative, or woolen, shapeless outfits—I can't take much more of this,” Ness added.

Though Ness said he would like to think the world is at least in some way aware of how he feels, he at times despairs that it is oblivious to his desires.

“It's so hard to concentrate on my social studies homework sometimes, when all I can do is wonder if the librarian with the noisy high heels even knows I exist,” Ness said. “Same goes for the silhouette of that girl dancing in the iPod commercial, and whoever it is who keeps clearing her throat in one of the back pews at church. But then again, you don't just go around smelling like lilacs, moisturizer, Chanel No. 5, or the slightest hint of perspiration masked by baby powder for no reason.”

Ness further speculated that the aloof cashier, the seemingly indifferent parking attendant, and the cruel senior volleyball-team captain were probably just having a bad day.

Still, Ness maintained that he is always on the lookout for signs of interest, and claimed he was determined make his feelings public.

“I have no idea where to start, but there's so much about the rest of the world I'd like to get to know better,” Ness said. “I think about it every time I see the world's blue gym shorts with white piping, the belly-dancing aerobic exercise videos, the curvy shape of the lower back on the diagram of the human body in my biology textbook, or contemplate the concept of 'fishnet.'”

“God, there's just so much,” he added.

According to Ness, the situation has been further confused by the feelings he has for much of the inanimate world, including the family lawn mower, which he associates with watching his neighbor Tina sunbathe on a large yellow beach chair while he cut the grass last August; an old dryer outside a neighbor's home, which reminds him of a story he heard at camp about people making out in a laundry room; and posters of the cast of the television program Lost, which he associates with the cast of Lost.

“How am I supposed to live in the same house as the Sunday newspaper considering my undying but unexpressed love for the underwear ads?” Ness said.

The teenager has also expressed concern that his intentions toward his mother's friends, the mail carrier, schoolmate Brian Graney's cousin who visited from Iowa last spring, Natalie Portman, Florida congresswoman Katherine Harris, R&B singer Kelis, and several fictional comic-book heroines, will somehow be misinterpreted.

“I'd hate for the world to think I'm some kind of creep,” he said. “I just happen to be very, very interested.”

Ness explained that he has recently been frustrated by the way the world casts sultry glances at him, coyly does not look at him at all, and walks toward or away from him seductively.

“What more can I do?” he said. “It doesn't matter to me if the world is a little overweight or much, much older, or taller, or a different race, or simply lives thousands of miles away.We just need to admit that there's something between us, and that we'd all regret it if we let it pass us by.”

Frustrated by the situation, Ness said he was gearing up to broach the subject of his desires in algebra class, at an upcoming walk for hunger, in the produce aisle, ordering Chinese food, or on a message board for home-schooled Christian teens, by writing a heartfelt poem, buying tickets to a romantic movie, sending flowers, playfully tossing crumpled-up balls of paper, telling a mutual friend how he feels, or quietly willing it to happen, either later today, tomorrow, Wednesday afternoon, Saturday morning, next Friday, right after Thanksgiving dinner, early next month, certainly before the new year, or whenever he feels ready.

  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Jan 26, 2007, 1:34 PM:

 

Has anyone heard the old joke about three umpires: The first umpire says he calls balls and strikes as they are. The second umpire says he calls balls and strikes as he sees them. The third umpire says there are neither balls nor strikes until he calls them.

heehee
arthur

p.s. the fourth empire says there are balls and/or strikes when she wishes for them…

  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Jan 31, 2007, 9:51 PM:

 

The coast of Ireland, sometime in the mid 1800's…

Angus walks into a bar, soon to be joined by a young man.  Angus orders up a guinness, the young boy a glass of milk.  And they sit there, sipping their respective drinks for a time.  When finally, Angus blurts, “Ya see this bar here laddy?”

“Yeah, I see the bar Angus.”

“I built this bar y'know.  I felled the trees, hewn the planks, sanded and finished this bar for three weeks, so men from miles around could come enjoy a drink together…”

The boy raises his eyebrows mockingly, “It's a pretty nice bar Angus.”

Angus smacks his palm down on the bar, “But they don't call me Angus-the-bar-maker, do they?”

“Well, no, the don't call you Angus-the-bar-maker.”

After a long swilling silence Angus lays in again, even edgier, “Ya see that stone wall there Laddy?”

“Yeah, I see the wall Angus.”

“I built that wall y'know.  I dug the stones, carried them to the field edge, placed each one on the other, so that not one of our townspeople's sheep would stray.”

 “It's a nice wall Angus.”

Angus pounds the bar with his fist, “But they don't call me Angus-the-stone-mason, do they?”

Shaking his head consolingly, the boy replies, “Nope, they don't call you Angus-the-stone-mason.”

Another while passes, and Angus pokes an elbow into the boys side and points out the back door, “You see that pier there Laddy?”

“Yeah, I see the pier Angus.”

“I built that pier y'know.  I drug the logs from the forest, plunged them deep into the harbor floor, laid each and every plank so that boats from all of ireland could stop over for a pint!”

“What can I say Angus, its a great pier.”

Seething, Angus raises his fist in the air, “But they don't call me Angus-the-pier-builder, do they!!”

With every effort to sit in such fury, the boy replies, “No, they don't call you Angus-the-pier-builder.”

Angus, red, and popping veins in his neck, empties the rest of his guinness in three large gulps, slams the glass down on the bar, and hollers, “but ya fuck ONE goat!!”

  Mascha : drop

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Mascha said Feb 1, 2007, 12:24 AM:

 

A teacher friend emailed me this:

No parent left behind

These are real notes written by PARENTS in a Tennessee school district…(Spellings have been left intact.)

1. MY SON IS UNDER A DOCTOR’S CARE AND SHOULD NOT TAKE PE TODAY. PLEASE EXECUTE HIM.
2. PLEASE EXKUCE LISA FOR BEING ABSENT SHE WAS SICK AND I HAD HER SHOT.
3. DEAR SCHOOL: PLEASE ECSC’s JOHN BEING ABSENT ON JAN. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 AND ALSO 33.

4. PLEASE EXCUSE GLORIA FROM JIM TODAY. SHE IS ADMINISTRATING.
5. PLEASE EXCUSE ROLAND FROM P.E. FOR A FEW DAYS.
YESTERDAY HE FELL OUT OF A TREE AND MISPLACED HIS HIP.

6. JOHN HAS BEEN ABSENT BECAUSE HE HAD TWO TEETH TAKEN OUT OF HIS FACE.
7. CARLOS WAS ABSENT YESTERDAY BECAUSE HE WAS PLAYING FOOTBALL. HE WAS HURT IN THE GROWING PART.
8. MEGAN COULD NOT COME TO SCHOOL TODAY BECAUSE SHE HAS BEEN BOTHERED BY VERY CLOSE VEINS.
9. CHRIS WILL NOT BE IN SCHOOL CUS HE HAS AN ACRE IN HIS SIDE.

10. PLEASE EXCUSE RAY FRIDAY FROM SCHOOL. HE HAS VERY LOOSE VOWELS.
11. PLEASE EXCUSE PEDRO FROM BEING ABSENT YESTERDAY. HE HAD (DIAHRE, DYREA, DIREATHE), THE SH**S. NOTE: [WORDS IN ( )’S WERE CROSSED OUT].

12. PLEASE EXCUSE TOMMY FOR BEING ABSENT YESTERDAY. HE HAD DIARRHEA, AND HIS BOOTS LEAK.
13. IRVING WAS ABSENT YESTERDAY BECAUSE HE MISSED HIS BUST.
14. PLEASE EXCUSE JIMMY FOR BEING. IT WAS HIS FATHER’S FAULT. {You know, this could be legit!)
15. I KEPT BILLIE HOME BECAUSE SHE HAD TO GO CHRISTMAS SHOPPING BECAUSE I DON’T KNOW WHAT SIZE SHE WEAR.

16. PLEASE EXCUSE JENNIFER FOR MISSING SCHOOL YESTERDAY. WE FORGOT TO GET THE SUNDAY PAPER OFF THE PORCH, AND WHEN WE FOUND IT MONDAY. WE THOUGHT IT WAS SUNDAY.
17. SALLY WON’T BE IN SCHOOL A WEEK FROM FRIDAY. WE HAVE TO ATTEND HER FUNERAL.
18. MY DAUGHTER WAS ABSENT YESTERDAY BECAUSE SHE WAS TIRED. SHE SPENT A WEEKEND WITH THE MARINES. {I absolutely LOVE that one!}
19. PLEASE EXCUSE JASON FOR BEING ABSENT YESTERDAY. HE HAD A COLD AND COULD NOT BREED WELL.
20. PLEASE EXCUSE MARY FOR BEING ABSENT YESTERDAY. SHE WAS IN BED WITH GRAMPS.

21. GLORIA WAS ABSENT YESTERDAY AS SHE WAS HAVING A GANGOVER.
22. PLEASE EXCUSE BRENDA. SHE HAS BEEN SICK AND UNDER THE DOCTOR.
23. MARYANN WAS ABSENT DECEMBER 11-16, BECAUSE SHE HAD A FEVER, SORE THROAT, HEADACHE AND UPSET STOMACH. HER SISTER WAS ALSO SICK, FEVER AN SORE THROAT, HER BROTHER HAD A LOW GRADE FEVER AND ACHED ALL OVER. I WASN’T THE BEST EITHER, SORE THROAT AND FEVER. THERE MUST BE SOMETHING GOING AROUND, HER FATHER EVEN GOT HOT LAST NIGHT.

  marigpa : bodhi fractal

Re: Jokes and Laughs

marigpa said Feb 7, 2007, 8:14 PM:

 

What's the difference between glossolalia and glossolabia?

With glossolalia you can have real difficulty understanding what they're saying.

With glossolabia you just haven't a clue what they're saying …. it's that damned lip-stick you see.

  marigpa : bodhi fractal

Re: Jokes and Laughs

marigpa said Feb 7, 2007, 8:51 PM:

 

 “Being shy and far too polite for my own good, I would listen to her stories, give an understanding ear and sometimes take her on philosophical journeys …”

I know you meant well, B.   …. but if there is a next time …. why not take her on a journey to the final (upstanding) frontier instead?

  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Feb 9, 2007, 6:21 AM:

 

Privately Mary mentioned a t-shirt she saw that read “If you are what you eat, I must be a woman.”  hehehe

I tried to find an image of that t-shirt but failed.  FAILED!  <pitiful sobbing>

However, I did find the following two images:

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r.thor

  Liz : deLizious

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Liz said Feb 9, 2007, 2:28 PM:

 

There are so many things that come to mind when I read this, dear Arthur…none of them printable…;-)…see you in a week!

Liz

  Jane : riversong

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Jane said Feb 9, 2007, 11:33 AM:

 

Q: How many new agers does it take to change a light
bulb?
A: None. They just join self-help groups to learn to
live with darkness in their lives.

  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Feb 9, 2007, 7:02 PM:

 

Q: How many second-tier people does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: Second-tier people don't change lightbulbs; they transcend and include the darkness.

  maryw : ponderer

Re: Jokes and Laughs

maryw said Feb 9, 2007, 10:48 PM:

 

Good ones, Arthur and Jane!      :-)

This is old, but what the hell:

How many nondualists does it take to change a lightbulb?

Three:

One to change the light bulb.
Another to not change the light bulb.
And another to neither change nor not change the light bulb.

  Liz : deLizious

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Liz said Feb 10, 2007, 3:06 AM:

 

Well, what's an insomniac to do but roll out another light bulb joke? This one isn't so spiritually oriented, though arguably, since it's a Jewish mother joke…

How many Jewish mothers does it take to screw in a light bulb?

None. That's ok, I'll sit in the dark. Don't worry about me. I'm fine.

  Liz : Intersection Princess

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Liz said Feb 10, 2007, 4:06 AM:

 

How many social workers does it take to change a light bulb?

None, the light bulb has to want to change………

Liz

  Liz : Intersection Princess

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Liz said Feb 10, 2007, 4:09 AM:

 

Another text from my sister in law

How do you get an 89 year old granny to shout “C**T”

get another one to shout “BINGO!”

Liz

  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Feb 10, 2007, 7:18 PM:

 

Another old lightbulb joke:

Q: How many feminists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Just one.  And that's not funny!

Q: How many people with unresolved anger issues does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Fuck you.


I may have told this joke before, but I love it, so I'll risk repeating myself:

knock-knock

Who's there?
Orange.

Orange who?
Orange you glad I didn't say “Homeland Security?”

arthur

  Liz : deLizious

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Liz said Feb 10, 2007, 7:35 PM:

 

By the way, Arthur, that last one is the one that you told my son that he likes the most.

Hmm.

How many Integralites does it take to change a lightbulb? four.

One to change it, and the others for aqal perspective.

Liz

  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Feb 10, 2007, 7:50 PM:

 

heehee

Q: How does Andrew Cohen change a light bulb?
A: By helping it evolve to a more enlightened state - by any means necessary (and don't even talk to me about shadow!)

Q: How does Ken Wilber change a light bulb?
A1: By talking to it until it lights up spontaneously.
A2: By convincing it that it's Always Already en-light-ened.
A3: The lightbulb will be changed in 6 months - seriously!

Q: How does Robert Augustus Masters change a light bulb?
A: He doesn't - he's really into Darkness Shining Wild.

arthur

  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Feb 10, 2007, 8:00 PM:

 


Which Condom would you use....


Nike Condoms: Just do it.
Toyota Condoms: Oh what a feeling.
Diet Pepsi Condoms: You got the right one, baby.
Pringles Condoms: Once you pop, you can't stop.
Mentos Condoms: The freshmaker.
Flinstones Vitamins Condom Pack: Ten million strong and growing.
Secret Condoms: Strong enough for a man, but ph balanced for a woman.
Macintosh Condoms: It does more, it costs less, it's that simple.
Ford Condoms: The best never rest.
Chevy Condoms: Like a Rock.
Dial Condoms: Aren't you glad you use it? Don't you wish everybody did?
New York Lotto Condoms: Cause hey -- you never know.
California Lotto Condoms: Who's next?
Avis Condoms: Trying harder than ever.
EverReady Condoms: Keeps going and going ...
KFC Condoms: Finger-Licking Good.
Coca Cola Condoms: Always the Real Thing.
Lays Condoms: Betcha can't have just one.
Campbells Soup Condoms: Mm, mm good.

  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Feb 10, 2007, 8:32 PM:

 

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  Siona : Synchronicity Coordinator

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Siona said Feb 10, 2007, 10:03 PM:

 


q. How many mice does it take to screw in a light bulb?
a. Two. But you have to get them inside the light bulb first.

  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Feb 11, 2007, 9:27 AM:

 

hehehe - cute li'l mice.  Um, they're gonna fry when they get that lightbulb changed though.  :0

OTOH, here's an alternative interpretation:

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“If I can't laugh, I don't want to be part of your evolution.” - adastra

  Liz : deLizious

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Liz said Feb 11, 2007, 9:56 AM:

 

Aw, man, Artrhur. The mice I had pictured in my head were much cuter.

As an addendum to your excellent Wilber quote, I will quote my dearly departed saintly mum:

“Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke!”

Liz

  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Feb 11, 2007, 10:31 AM:

 

Aw, man, Artrhur. The mice I had pictured in my head were much cuter.

As an addendum to your excellent Wilber quote, I will quote my dearly departed saintly mum:

“Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke!”

Liz

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

er…just don't take her advice too literally, OK sweetie?  :)

arthur

  Pelle : focusing

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Pelle said Feb 11, 2007, 11:07 AM:

 

My brother sent me this link.

You only need to read the heading :D

  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Feb 11, 2007, 11:30 AM:

 

Thanks, Pelle - Liz and I were reading through that hilarious article on the phone and laughing together.  Meanwhile, I discovered that there is a short documentary detailing this important national crisis.

Spider

spider on,
arthur

p.s. I have had a lifelong fear of our arachnid companions - luckily it is much less intense than it used to be, but just so you know, my skin is very itchy right now.  :0
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  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Feb 11, 2007, 11:34 AM:

 

Bonus spider-man panels (found while looking for the above cartoon)

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  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Feb 11, 2007, 11:36 AM:

 

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  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Feb 12, 2007, 9:02 PM:

 

I'm not really sure this is funny…

Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.
–George Bernard Shaw

  Pelle : focusing

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Pelle said Feb 13, 2007, 1:08 AM:

 

  Pelle : focusing

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Pelle said Feb 13, 2007, 1:20 AM:

 




Green cowboys….

  Pelle : focusing

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Pelle said Feb 13, 2007, 1:24 AM:

 

  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Mar 14, 2007, 8:34 AM:

 

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  Nomali : IntegralSpiritualChocolate

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Nomali said Mar 21, 2007, 12:05 PM:

 

I was walking Buddy the Beagle this morning (here in Boulder, CO) and saw this in someone's backyard. Thought is was funny!

Fear not, that ”WE!”

  UnrulyJulie : Mahayana Girl

Re: Jokes and Laughs

UnrulyJulie said Mar 21, 2007, 8:57 PM:

 

http://web.archive.org/web/20010804062718/viz.co.uk/hairloom/larger/life_christ.jpg

  Liz : deLizious

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Liz said Mar 22, 2007, 9:52 AM:

 


Integrally, of course.

  Liz : deLizious

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Liz said Mar 22, 2007, 9:53 AM:

 

  Liz : deLizious

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Liz said Mar 22, 2007, 10:13 AM:

 

And that is a bargain price.

  adastra : Curious Mutant

Re: Jokes and Laughs

adastra said Mar 23, 2007, 5:25 PM:

 

It's always nice to find one's ego in the bargain bin…

Meanwhile, back at the ranch…

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  Mascha : drop

Re: Jokes and Laughs

Mascha said Mar 29, 2007, 9:07 PM:

 

Lower self in the mood for something subversive? Read on, crazy diamonds.



When Insults Had Class


“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
  – Winston Churchill

“A modest little person, with much to be modest about.”
  – Winston Churchill

“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great
pleasure.”
  – Clarence Darrow

“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the
dictionary.”
  – William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”
  – Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time
reading it.”
  – Moses Hadas

“He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I
know.”
  – Abraham Lincoln

“I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.”
  – Groucho Marx

“I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved
of it.”
  – Mark Twain

“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
  – Oscar Wilde

“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a
friend…. if you have one.”
  – George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

“Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second… if there is
one.”
  – Winston Churchill, in response

“I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here.”
  – Stephen Bishop

“He is a self-made man and worships his creator.”
  – John Bright

“I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.”
  – Irvin S. Cobb

“He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.”
  – Samuel Johnson

“He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.”
  – Paul Keating

“He had delusions of adequacy.”
  – Walter Kerr

“There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure.”
  – Jack E. Leonard

“He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.”
  – Robert Redford

“They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human
knowledge.”
  – Thomas Brackett Reed

“He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by
diligent hard work, he overcame them.”
  – James Reston (about Richard Nixon)

“In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.”
  – Charles, Count Talleyrand

“He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.”
  – Forrest Tucker

“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on
it?”
  – Mark Twain

“His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.”
  – Mae West

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”
  – Oscar Wilde

“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts…for support
rather than illumination.”
  – Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

“He has Van Gogh's ear for music.”
  – Billy Wilder

  maryw : ponderer

Re: Jokes and Laughs

maryw said Mar 30, 2007, 1:24 AM:

 

Whew, Mascha! Don't I wish I could haul out some one-liners like those when I needed 'em …


Anyway … Liz & Arthur, this pirate thang has apparently spread to some of our most trusted news sources …

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