Category Archives: Funny Stuff

Another Reason I Love Jon Stewart

The first time I remember seeing Jon Stewart he was hosting some short-lived late night show on CBS (I think it was CBS) and I just stumbled across it.  All I remember is thinking, “Damn that guys short” and “Damn that guys pretty funny.”  So when he took over the Daily Show I made sure to watch and have been rewarded ever since. 

Thanks to Patrick Eakes I just found the commencement address he gave at William & Mary in 04.  It has what is now my favorite quote about the war:

We declared war on terror. We declared war on
terror—it’s not even a noun, so, good luck. After we defeat it, I’m
sure we’ll take on that bastard ennui.

Of course with his first name you know he has to be brilliant; we “Jon” folks are a pretty sharp lot.

If Your Wife is Nutty You Might Want to Get Her Help

If you’re made uncomfortable by stories of wives forcefully removing their husbands bollocks then you may not want to read this story.  Apparently the wife in this story is bi-polar and thought her husband was cheating on her.  According to the husband that caused her to:

“I mean she just grabbed me all down there and yanking and yanking and tearing me up with those fingernails.”

That was followed by a medical procedure that no man wants to think about: reattachment surgery.

Looks Like Elon’s Boys Watched Bull Durham One Too Many Times

The folks over at badjocks.com have published pictures of Elon’s baseball team hazing their freshmen.  Lots of bras and panties involved which is a tradition I suspect dates back to 1988 when Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon) had Nuke LaLoosh (Tim Robbins) dress in garters to help correct his pitching form in "Bull Durham".

What is it about baseball and North Carolina that causes people to do crazy things like name their teams after bugs (Greensboro Grasshoppers) and dress in womens clothing?  Could it be proximity to Greensboro?

Well I can’t say anything…in Winston-Salem we named our team after a wild pig (Winston-Salem Warthog). It’s better than naming your team after bait, but not much.

I’m waiting for the Grasshoppers to have a man-bra promo night and then I might make the drive over to see the new stadium.

Vernon Chavez?

So I’m glancing through memeorandum and I glance at the picture of Hugo Chavez (below left) and briefly wonder why Vernon Robinson (below right) is on there.  Then I look more closely and realize it’s Chavez, but then wonder if Chavez’s and Robinson’s pictures are really enough alike to cause that mistake…you be the judge.

Of course their politics are very similar:)Vernon_robinson

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Turd Man Redux

A while back I wrote a piece called "The Turd Man of Alcatraz" that described my familial role as the discoverer of all floaters and clogged toilets in our house.  Now I’ve taken my act on the road. 

On Monday and Tuesday I was in DC on business and I stayed at the Hampton Inn in Old Town Alexandria. This being the week after Easter I think I was the only businessperson in the hotel and I was surrounded by tourist families. So I’m getting ready to leave (I’d already checked out earlier) and I decided to hit the lobby bathroom before I left.  There was a man waiting outside the men’s room and it ended up he was waiting for his 8-ish year old son to come out.  After they left I went in the bathroom and found, you guessed it, an amazingly large floater.  I was concerned that the kid actually had clogged the toilet but it ended up he just forgot to flush.

Oh well, it is nice to know why you were put on this earth, you know?

In (somewhat) related news Cottonelle has manufactured a roll of toilet paper that tells kids where they need to tear the sheets so they don’t create a clog-monster.  There is some debate as to its efficacy as it doesn’t seem to take into account the different methods employed by users: folding, wrapping or wadding.  My kids naturally lean to the method of wadding a half-roll for each dab-that’ll-do-you, but I’ve implemented a folding training program that seems to have reduced our occurences of brown floods.  Now if I could only figure out how to put an alarm on the toilet that senses a non-flush and automatically zaps them with a not-so-pleasant electric shock as they attempt to leave the bathroom.  The same alarm should also knock them on their butts when they forget to wash their hands.

Here’s my health tip for the day: never accept any food handled by a female under the age of 11 (they discover cleanliness around 12 and then become compulsive) or a male under the age of 26, which is when the average man gets married and also learns how to wash his hands after being harangued 24/7 by his lovely young bride who he’s just discovered is a freakishly compulsive hypochondriac.