Get Your Funny On

Day 23 of the April Plan is about humor. Humor is good for you. Appropriately employed, it has a significantly positive effect on your life. It can help us deal with pain and painful situations, it can lighten moods and encourage joy and learning. I don't think anyone will argue that humor is essential for a healthy life. But since it's not at all funny to write about humor, I thought I'd just share some things that make me laugh. Many of these are pulled from my ancient archives, but still get a chuckle out of me. You may have seen most of these already as well, but still...They're funny! There's just enough here for a tiny respite from mundanity and grumpiness. I've also added some links to funny sites at the bottom of the post. If you have a funny to share, please add it in the comments section. I'm always happy to laugh. Have a happy day! 

ANIMAL LOVE:

             

                                                                  

This is one of my favorite videos. It always inspires a laugh no matter how many times I've seen it.

FLUBBED HEADLINES:

Maybe because of tight deadlines, maybe because of lack of sleep, maybe because they just don't know any better, journalists the world over produce fodder for hilarious misunderstanding when trying to synopsize their article into a succinct headline. Here are just a few that have been around for a long while. Still funny.

 MAN ROBS, THEN KILLS HIMSELF

BOYS CAUSE AS MANY PREGNANCIES AS GIRLS

PROSTITUTES APPEAL TO POPE

DRUNK GETS NINE MONTHS IN VIOLIN CASE

BAR TRYING TO HELP ALCOHOLIC LAWYERS

TEENAGE PROSTITUTION PROBLEM IS MOUNTING

DEAD EXPECTED TO RISE

BLIND WORKERS EYE BETTER WAGES

MILK DRINKERS TURN TO POWDER

TWO CONVICTS EVADE NOOSE, JURY HUNG

HOSPITALS ARE SUED BY 7 FOOT DOCTORS

FARMER BILL DIES IN HOUSE

(A FEW MORE) FAR SIDE CARTOONS BY GARY LARSON:

CHURCH LADIES WITH TYPEWRITERS...(CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENT BLOOPERS):

They're Back! Those wonderful Church Bulletins! Thank God for church ladies with typewriters. These sentences (with all the BLOOPERS & TYPOS) actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced in church services.

The sermon this morning :"Jesus Walks on the Water." The sermon tonight: "Searching for Jesus."

Miss Charlene Mason sang "I will not pass this way again," giving obvious pleasure to the congregation.

For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.

Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days.

At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be "What Is Hell?" Come early and listen to our choir practice.

Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.

Low Self-Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM. Please use the back door.

Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you want remembered.

The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.

The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the Congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday.

Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use large double door at the side entrance.

DAVID LETTERMAN FUN FACT:

Due to a typo in is contract, illusionist David Copperfield once had to pull a rabbi out of a hat.

CHUCK NORRIS FUN FACTS: 

(Taken from Chuck Norris Cannot Be Stopped: 400 All-New Facts About The Man Who Knows Neither Fear Nor Mercy by Ian Spector)

Doctors once found sixty dollars worth of nickels in Chuck Norris's stomach.

Before Leo Tolstoy met Chuck Norris, his book was called Peace.

All of Chuck Norris's toes are big toes.

Chuck Norris tightrope walked across the Pacific Ocean, stopping only once, in Guam, to liberate it from the Spanish.

Chuck Norris's rap sheet actually rhymes.

Chuck Norris owns all of the No. 1 pencils.

When Alexander Graham Bell made the first phone call, all he heard on the other end was Chuck Norris's heavy breathing.

Chuck Norris whistles in German.

AND JUST A FEW MORE MEMES:

That's it for today. Go forth and laugh. Go get your funny on. 

For more funny check out 

The Onion - a hilarious satirical news site

BuzzFeed -  a potpourri of (real) news blips, quizes and entertaining lists of memes