OK, first off: For some reason I didn't mention how cool the acronym IJatKotCS was when I was talking about it in my last post.
So, umm. It's a really cool acronym!
Moving on.
It's likely that I've told you about this before.
You see, I do not laugh very often at things I read. In print, yes (particularly Dave Barry's stuff, he makes me "LOL" more than anything else I read, I think). But on a computer screen? It almost never happens. The closest I get is a quickly-stifled snicker, like the one this website produced. And here we're talking about something that I thought was just hilarious (if you know what it's talking about, you'll think it's quite witty as well... I bookmarked it, and then Adam RSS'd it, which I thought was a pretty good idea, so I did the same).
It's just... I've learned not to. I don't like explaining why things (particularly things like the above link, which, really, would take a long time to explain) are funny. So I try to avoid being asked.
Also, at our previous house, I would often use the computer in the same room as people who were sleeping and I didn't want them to wake up.
Anyway, now I just don't laugh loudly anymore.
So here's the challenge: Make me!
The one rule is that it has to be something I read. I guess it can be a cartoon or something, but no videos or sounds or anything.
So there you are.
I'm not sure what you win if you do manage to do it, but I'm not too worried that that will happen, so....
I'd prefer it if you emailed your "submissions" or whatever.
QotD #1-
Seth: Should we lock up our bikes?
Me: My bike is purple.
QotD #2-
"Well, what are you doing telling me about it? Surely you don't think you'll be able to keep me quiet?"
Now I'd scared them. The younger man quickly pulled out a fifty and handed it over.
"Oh, that's just great," I groaned. "First people were bribing the criminals to bump off their enemies. Then the criminals started bribing the law enforcement to keep themselves out of prison. Now the police officers are rounding it all off by bribing civilians to keep them from tipping off the media! Oh, the state this government is in, why-"
He handed me another Ulysses and I shut up.
-Something from a short story I'm writing called That Wasn't the Worst of It.
0 comments:
Post a Comment