Make Me Laugh Monday (and Tuesday!)

Silly me, if I'm anouncing the winner on Wednesday then of course the contest includes Tuesday. So if you haven't entered yet, there's still time!

At Blissdom last month I received a gift certificate for up to $50 from Crocs (the shoe company). After much pondering about what to do with it, I've decided to pass it along to one of you!

So I'm having a "Make Me Laugh Monday" contest because, well, it's Monday and we could all use an extra smile.

Leave a funny comment (a story, conversation, quote, link, or whatever else has made you giggle lately) to be entered. Be a good sport and tell your Croc-loving friends to enter too.

I'll announce the winner on Wednesday!

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Comments

[Holley]

Okay, the funniest thing that has happened to me today is that none of you are commenting! I know you're out there by the hundreds, I see the numbers, so either you don't like crocs or you're not feeling especially jolly. I'm officially entering myself and unless someone says something soon, I'm keepin' those puppies! (:

[Cindy Shirah]

The other night, I caught my three youngest children wasting shampoo (again) by pouring over half the bottle into the tub to make bubbles and to shampoo their baby dolls hair. Now, this is something we have talked about a few times before so after they got out of the tub, I once again had a serious talk about wasting things. I reminded them of how a few days ago, they had some money saved up that they got to take to the store and spend. They now had no money, but in it's place they had some new clothes and a new movie. I explained that what they did with the shampoo was like me going to their room and throwing away their new clothes and movie. If I were to do that, they would have no money and no new clothes or movie. I went into further detail about how I'd had money the other day too and so I bought shampoo with it. Then I had no money but I did have shampoo. Now - I have no money and no shampoo. Somebody had to work for that money. And to waste things was like working for no reason at all and getting no pay as well. I then told them that in the morning, they were going to do a hard chore all by themselves without any reward so they could feel what it would be like to work hard for "no reason". Up until then, I had three little faces before me, full of contrition, heads bowed, and properly ashamed of themselves... until that last part about working hard the next day... at that point little Johnny's head popped up and he began to laugh quite heartily. He then pointed at me and said, "Ah ha ha ha mom... that's a funny story! MOM- You're so funny!" He fell on the floor and literally pounded the floor all the while laughing hysterically like I'd just had him really going! Well, he completely caught me off guard. I couldn't even finish scolding the kids because we all began laughing so hard! (They did however, find out the next day that I wasn't just telling a funny story!)

[Linda]

Holley, Holley,
These crocs may be for you
The world has been silent
Oh, where are the humorous few?

I was rather humored when I checked the post to discover no one had responded, except you. If you are the one who ends up with them I hope they are your most favorite ones ever. :) You've made me smile several times today. Afraid my greatest chuckles recently wouldn't humor the world as much as it did me and mine.

[Sulwyn]

I had to laugh a little because I clicked to read the comments hoping for a chuckle since you asked for funny stories and such (and I really am in need of a good laugh) only to find yourself, one funny story, and a great limerick! Personally I love to see what is new at Cute Overload as they can usually make me smile at least a little: http://www.cuteoverload.com/

[Janice]

Funny Monday story:
I showed my kindergarten grandson his name in the local paper.
He said "why is my name in the paper?". I explained "perfect attendance".
He grew quiet and then said "But I have made mistakes" --a pause and then "I'm not perfect".
I then hastened to tell him that perfect attendance meant he had not missed a day of school.
"oh" he said, very relieved.

[Jeanette]

Hi, Holley. I heard this a couple of weeks ago:

A string walks into a bar. The bartender says, “We don’t serve your kind here,” and kicks him out.

The string leaves, dejected.

He goes to his neighbor’s house and asks her to tie him in a knot. She complies.

Then he says, “Can you please muss my hair up a little?” so she does that too.

He goes back to the same bar. The bartender says, “Hey, weren’t you the guy I kicked out earlier? I think I recognize you!”

The string then says, “No, I’m a frayed knot!”

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahhaahahhaahhaaaaaaa!!!!!!!

Can you hear me laughing all the way from Illinois to Colorado???

[Terrie]

OK, Holley, here's my Make Me Laugh entry. By doing this I am revealing many things about myself: my age, my wanna be a blonde, and scatterbrainess (is there such a word?).

Does anyone like hemming pants, skirts, dresses? If you do, you are the ONLY one that I know. It all started last year when my mom (of 78 years young) was telling all her children; (7 girls, 1 boy ) that she was hemming her night gown. It had lots and lots of material, and took her an extra long time. If you could appreciate this statement: my mom has severe diabetes, it has dimmed her eye sight that has developed into legal blindness. Her hands have many bumps and are also gnarled from arthritis. Well, she finally finished hemming her nightgown to find out that she had hemmed the part she cut off!!! She told this to all of us with no embarrassments at all, just a good belly laugh to go along with it! We have laughed about this so much that it was getting to be quite a story around their house.

I am sorry to say that this is not the the end my story............well, I had a pair of pants that were way too long for me. I had put off hemming them for weeks, and finally decided one quiet evening that I could do the 'chore' of hemming those pants. I carefully cut off the part that was no longer needed and proceeded in hemming both legs. When I went to put these pants on, I had hemmed them on the wrong side, they were hemmed with the stitches on the outside of my pants! I wasn't laughing when I discovered this at first, but as I told several of my sisters, they had an extra thing to throw in there; like mother like daughter! Well, I was told when I was younger, that I couldn't deny that I was Gena's daughter! I am proud to say that I am my mom's fifth daughter. Even though I can't sew, I can laugh!
P.S. I didn't re-hem those pants, I wear them with the hem on the outside. Guess what? No one has noticed(at least until now)!

[Mandy]

This morning as I was rocking Eli, Meggy came in with her magic wand and asked, ”Momma, is it okay if I turn Eli into a cat?” After receiving my approval she 'Bibbity Bobbity Booed' him and proudly twirled out of the room. Such a ‘magic’ moment...only to be broken by Meg’s cries less than a minute later when she reported that Ben had thrown her magic wand into the potty. I guess Ben didn’t like what he was about to be turned into. Oh, the life of us...

(This is one of my project 365 posts from a few days ago. Here's the link if you want to see the picture. http://mandytharelbaker.blogspot.com/2009/02/life-of-us_5535.html).

Thanks Holley! This is so fun! *M

[Mandy]

PS...not to influence your decision at all (cough, cough) but I thought I'd also point out my blog post from Sunday, January 18. :) http://mandytharelbaker.blogspot.com/2009/01/life-of-us.html

Terrie, I'm totally loving (and relating to) your hemming story. I think you and I would be good friends. *M

[Jennifer]

My husband and I live in a house in the country with our 2 cats. It is not uncommon for the cats to hunt in the basement and bring a mouse upstairs to play with. They like to harass the mouse for hours and we don't want to give them a chance to kill it (I pretty much like all furry things so we set the mice free)so this usually results in us chasing the cat that is chasing the mouse. Two of my favorite mouse stories are:

One time one of our cats had been chasing a mouse throughout our bedroom and bathroom. Neither us nor the cat was able to catch it, so we finally gave up. Later on I found my cat sitting on the edge of our bathtub watching the ceiling intently. I looked up and could not figure out what would capture his attention so thoroughly until I realized that the mouse was above me balanced on our shower rod!!!

Another time, the mouse being chased ran under our china cabinet. I looked underneath and couldn't help but laugh to see a tiny little mouse laying on top of and hugging a long forgotten small green plastic Easter egg. It looked very much like he was trying to convince the cat that he was just part of the egg :)

[Leeann]

Ok, here's something that made us laugh. Out of the mouths of babes....

We were sitting down to Sunday lunch and I asked Cassandra, our then 3 year old, what she learned in Sunday School. She paused from eating,
quite dramatically I might add, took a deep breath and then said, "Paul told the people the good news about the re-rection." So I said,"The re-rection?" and she looks at me, rolls her eyes, sighs in
exasperation, and says (in a tone as though everyone knows about it and I'm just stupid for asking her to explain) "Yesssss. You know, when Jesus died and God made him lived again?"
"Ohhh, you mean the'resurrection'," I said, it finally dawning on me what she was talking about. To which she answered matter of factly, "Yes. That's what I said. The re-rection."

[June]

My husband and I are now living in a retirement community. Recently a friend, who is also here, had her bridge club from town and asked me to fill in. The first dealer picked up the cards and said to the hostess, "This does not feel like a full deck." I quickly added that in a retirement community we do not all play with a "full deck."

[Ashlee Chism]

I am kind of cheating but hope you will extend a little grace. Can there be a "Tickle My Tummy Tuesday"? I missed "Make Me Laugh Monday" but I am hoping to sneak in for the contest:) So here goes:

(This is an excerpt from my blog. I hope it makes you smile.)

Somehow Will(7 years old) got on the subject of babies and where they came from. I got in a bit of a panic and thought that my idea of hanging around was no longer a great one! But, I decided that someone gets the heavy questions and I might just want to be the one to get them. Brent's parenting philosophy is a little less delicate than mine which is great in some instances but maybe not for the Birds and Bees conversation with a 7 and 4 year-old:) So, Will proceeds to explain to Sam that when people die they go to Heaven for 40 days until a mommy and daddy decide they want a baby and then at that time they go to be in the mommy's belly. (I think Will's school is putting WAY too much emphasis on recycling these days!) Anyway, when the baby is to be born the doctor gets the baby out of the mommy's tummy and cuts the thing that connects to the peenie. (Obviously Will knows something about the chord but we haven't really explained it well enough. All he has seen in his two baby brothers is that they come home with injured belly buttons and peenies. So, I think he believes the chord runs from the belly to the peenie and it clearly damages both ends.) He then explained that the doctor uses some sort of glue to fix it all.

Voila! That is how you get a baby! At least that is how my 7 year-old saw it yesterday and now my 7 year-old and 4 year-old both see it that way today:) And honestly, I just didn't have it in me to correct any of the story. Brent asked me why I didn't tell Will about Heaven and the whole non reincarnation thing. Well he obviously knows about Heaven and if I at that point, alone without a safety net, tried to say no to reincarnation, I know that I would have gotten the question of where babies really do come from. I mean I have answered that question already by saying that God gives mommies and daddies babies. I thought that was a good answer. Clearly I didn't figure that my son would see God as the master recycler and just send one, a used one, down from Heaven! So, I decided that for that moment in time, I was going to have to let this one slide. We'll let Daddy handle this one when he gets home, delicately or not so delicately, it lets me off the hook;)

[Deborah]

Last week my husband and I took the kids on the new "light rail" system that the state of Arizona put in. Our three year old grandson looked out at the horizon in the rail and said " I love the city of the United States of America!"

The other funny phrase I heard this week is my daughter told her five year old while she was giving her a tight hug that she wished they could stay together like this forever. She looked up at her and said " Do they have people glue?"

[Mary]

I was sending an e-mail last week and referred to a lady with the last name of "Sincock." Before sending, my spell-check suggested I change the word "Sincock" to nincompoop! I'd never seen THAT word in writing---oh how I laughed at our wonderful technology!!

[Drilma]

A funny to share is in our weekly prayer time one of our instructors mentioned that her granddaughter had not gotten the color of a popsicle that she wanted, it was red and it is her favorite, and one of her friends told her, “You get what you get, and don’t throw a fit.” The wisdom of children. Have a great day in the LORD.

[Amy @ By His Grace]

I've got acutally several for you to choose from. I've started something called "Forget-me-Not Fridays" at my blog, By His Grace. Here are a couple of links for you to check out.

http://byhisgrace-amy.blogspot.com/2009/02/forget-me-not-fridayss.html

http://byhisgrace-amy.blogspot.com/2009/02/forget-me-not-fridays.html

My favorites are the "fluffy tail" line or "the boogers in the ear one" or the "hurts like the dickens comment." Thanks for the giveaway!

[Rhonda]

This made me laugh!

http://videos.komando.com/ 2008/06/04/mans-surprising-laugh/

[Anonymous]

One morning my six year old-daughter was scrounging in our pantry for some breakfast. We didn't have much to work with, but did have a pack of english muffins.

She didn't know what they were but I convinced her that some butter and some jelly would make them mighty tasty.

She started to eat one and about half way through she tilted her head and asked, "What were these called again?"

I said, "They are English Muffins."

She exclaimed, "I don't know much about the English, but they make good muffins!"

[Tiffany]

This came across my Twitter Stream the other day and cracked me UP! Also made me very glad I am no longer single!!!!

"http://pamperingbeki.blogspot.com/2009/02/fur-realz.html"

[Holley]

This is an honorary entry for Carol who sent me a funny video because she couldn't post it and now I can't post it either! (:

[Tab]

One day my daughter was doing a math problem in the air with her finger. She says to me, "Mom, I made a mistake!" I said, "That's OK, you can just erase it!" I swiped my hand back and forth in the air as though I was wiping a chalk board. She then says, "But I did it in pen!" hahaha...KIDS!

[Kathleen]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNjrgD3MgC0

I hope that I have copied this address correctly. I found it on the blog of a friend I met at Write to Publish Conference last June. [Blog: Wendy Loves]
This video clip is a sweet toddler (2 yr old) singing The Lord's Prayer. Maybe it's not classified as funny but it will make you smile...for days!

[Brooke Morrell-Smith]

Hey, Holley!
You've got a tough time choosing from these. My favorites are the "recycled birds and bees" story and the "nincompoop" spellcheck.

Here's my little ditty:
Last Thursday I was babysitting my three year old niece Charis with my mom. The three of us were playing Candyland and mom had just given Charis a Tootsie Roll pop. As she licked her pop with great fervor, mom said, "Is that good, Charis?" and she nodded her head with excitement and huge eyes. Then I said, "Do you know what's in the middle of that?" She answered, "Toooooo Zeros." We cracked up. "How many?" "Twoooo Zeros." :-) We ended up saying it over and over and giggling.

On another note, I'm so happy to find your blog and I just bought your book online. Thanks for sharing your gift. (And no this isn't to suck up to win the Crocs.. ha!)

[Andrea]

Hey Holley! I thought I’d share an embarrassing story with you. Hopefully it will make you laugh! First of all, I am really awful at keeping up with my cell phone. I go through them so fast that I refuse to pay over 20 bucks for one. A few weeks ago I was in bed and it just hit me that I didn’t know where my cell phone was. It was late, probably around midnight. I got our home phone and dialed my cell phone (over and over!) hoping to hear it ring. Nothing… I tried thinking back to the last time I knew I had it and remembered playing in the yard with the boys the day before. I remembered having the phone in the pouch of my pullover and assumed it had fallen out in the yard, so I bundled up, grabbed the flashlight and phone and headed out the door. I walked all over shining the light everywhere and dialing my number constantly. Finally, I gave up, walked in the house and put the phone back on the hook. To my surprise, my cell phone was sitting right beside the phone base with NO MISSED CALLS!! Confused, I looked at the number I had been dialing… Yep! I had been calling the WRONG number!! I quickly took my phone off the hook for fear someone was going to call at any second and tell me to stop harassing them!!