Last week was the second official week of the South African presence on the International Trending Hashtagging game app under the hashtag @AFrikkinHashtag [Say it out loud].
Despite it happening right in the middle of all the #FeesMustFall action, we still somehow managed to briefly trend in South Africa for the first time while also trending solidly at number 4 in the States. Continue reading
Oh sure, you type LOL, but not while you are ever actually laughing out loud – you wouldn’t have the stability…
But in the meantime let’s take some time out to appreciate five more quotes from my favourite actual LOL guy, Jack Handey:
‘Don’t ever get your speedometer confused with your clock, like I did once, because the faster you go the later you think you are.’ [Jack Handey]
‘One thing that a computer can do that most humans can’t is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse.’ [Jack Handey]
‘I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver. And since he’s so busy, you’d probably have to run up to him real quick and hand it to him.’ [Jack Handey]
‘To me, clowns aren’t funny. In fact, they’re kinda scary. I’ve wondered where this started, and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus and a clown killed my dad.’ [Jack Handey]
‘Laurie got offended that I used the word “puke.” But to me, that’s what her dinner tasted like.” [Jack Handey]
Any of these come close to making you really actually LOL? Or do you have your own favourite Jack Handey to share? Let us know in the comments section below…
[To return to the beginning of this Jack Handey series and read more quotes, click here]
You know how this works. We write LOL, but we barely ever really mean it… but Jack Handey is one of the guys who i know have made people LOL best and for real… so take a look at these offerings and see if any of them do it for you:
‘It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.’ [Jack Handey]
‘I guess of all my uncles I liked Uncle Cave Man the best. We called him Uncle Cave Man because he lived in a cave and because sometimes he’d eat one of us. Later on we found out he was a bear.’ [Jack Handey]
‘It’s too bad that whole families have to be torn apart by something as simple as wild dogs.’ [Jack Handey]
‘I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don’t want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then when somebody comes up act like they just woke up and go, “What was THAT?”‘ [Jack Handey]
‘One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to a burnt down warehouse. “Oh no,” I said, “Disneyland burned down.” He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.’ [Jack Handey]
Which of those came closest for you? Or do you have a favourite Jack Handey? Share with us in the comments section and we’ll see if it makes it into the next episode of Chasing LOL…
So by now, if you know me, you know that i don’t really believe LOL is a thing.
Apart from someone in my close family who actually thought it meant ‘Lots Of Love’ and actually [true story] sent it to a friend via text who had just lost a family member, as in: i heard your dad died. LOL
But my basic theory is this: If you’re writing LOL [which, family member, stands for Laugh Out Loud] then you’re clearly not LOLing! Because who can type accurately if they are in fact laughing in an out loud kind of manner? [Most people i know shake, do you shake?]
Anyways, one person i know in life who regularly gets me to actually blatantly honestly LOL is my buddy, Dreadlock Mike, and i’m not sure why it is, but when we get together we both become little seven year old gigglers [do seven year olds giggle? whichever age that is, we’re them] which is why i love hanging out with Mike and recently it was Mike and i reading out Jack Handey’s that was bringing out the LOLs.
If you don’t know Jack Handey’s work, then it is my absolute pleasure to share it with you. Different people respond to different thoughts of his and so if you don’t like all of them, that is fine. i am going to post five today and if one of them brings you closer to LOLing than the others, let me know which one it was below…
The tiger can’t just change his spots. No, wait, he did. Good for him. [Jack Handey]
Whenever y read a good book, it’s like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why I don’t like to read good books. [Jack Handey]
Instead of a trap door, what about a trap window? The guy looks out of it, and if he leans too far, he falls out. Wait. I guess that’s like a regular window. [Jack Handey]
One thing vampire children have to be taught early on is, don’t run with a wooden stake. [Jack Handey]
It’s funny that pirates were always going around searching for treasure, and they never realised that the real treasure was the fond memories they were creating. [Jack Handey]
Which of those came closest for you? Or do you have a favourite Jack Handey? Share with us in the comments section and we’ll see if it makes it into the next episode of Chasing LOL…
[For more Jack Handey love, check out Chasing LOL part II over here]
Oh Stephan, you get me, you really get me. This Pearls strip pretty spot on with ca directional voice finder thingy:
However, life is not all about Pearls before Swine. Sometimes life can be about Poorly Drawn Lines and how spot on it can be on occasion:
[For a different Pearls before Swine cartoon looking at sneaking into the afterlife, click here]
[For some of my favourite Poorly Drawn Lines strips, take a look over here]
i posted this a few years ago when i had a Weekly Mash blog going on, but thought it was worthy of a place on Irresistibly Fish as it is one picture that never fails to make me smile a lot and usually laugh out loud [which is unusual for me – normally an inside laugher]
i hope it might have that effect on some of you.
you know as a child, many well-meaning adults told you that you could be whatever you wanted to be…
well this guy took them seriously…
[For some more fun and silly stuff, take a look at these offerings]
If i were to ask you what the best job in the whole world was, i doubt if anyone would respond, “Working with Lego” simply because, how is that a job?
But if i were to tell you that for the last two months i have lived with someone whose job is working with Lego, your response is very much likely to be, ‘Wow, that’s the best job in the world!’
So Aaron and Sarah moved in with us for a little bit and he brought with him his car with 16000 Lego pieces in the trunk.
IT STARTED SMALL…
a Lego man flower, a Lego man pumping pumpkins and the Hulk getting involved…
But before long things had started to slowly escalate:
There were some harmless fun times in between:
But things just grew worse from there:
Eventually culminating in a moment of regret:
And of course the unfortunate demise of Bobblehead Dwight from the Office:
And suddenly it appeared the Lego men were in control… and so we had to step in to show them who is boss…
But before we knew it they were calling for reinforcements:
Who showed up in droves [yes, that’s right, a ‘drove’ of Lego men and now women!]
And so it was clear that the little Lego people were here to stay, as demonstrated in this highly scientific chart:
There seemed to be nothing else we could do besides work together with them and so we created a page on Facebook to document all their crazy adventures.
And invited you to become a part of the group and start submitting your pics of Lego people living it up, which you have started to do:
And so the adventures of the little people continue… what will they get up to next?
[Email pics to brettfish@hotmail.com or stick them directly in the group to participate]
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