There are lots of funny people, movies, bits, jokes, gags, comics and even routines in this world, but it takes a certain kind of stupidity to make me laugh out loud. Some of that is because I live with a ridiculously funny, smart man with impulse control problems, who continually says and does outrageous things. Things that will one day inspire the wrath of god, I'm sure. Because of him I have become desensitized me to most shocking, inappropriate or intelligent humor. Or maybe it is because my father subsists on bad puns. Or because my friends, (Mr. Mannis, Mr. Fogg) with their humor or just their general carriage, have made me squirt all manner of beverages out of my nose.
Sometimes I feel like I've lost my sense of humor completely. Someone will show me a video, or tell me a joke, to which the general reaction is total hilarity, but my reaction is usually just a smile or nod and "yeah, that's funny."No actual laughter. My man (who will now be known as PBT, until I come up with something better, plus it makes him sound like a sandwich, and I think he will like that), PBT thinks that makes me the ultimate straight man (I've encouraged him to write a humor book entitled, Married to a Straight Man). I'm afraid this lack of laughter makes me boring.
I am left to find my chuckles where I can. There isn't enough room in the post for the amount of Bill Murray I want to include, so I'll just give you my favorite quote, "you can't leave, all the plants are gonna die."
Here is what works for me (at varying levels of quality):
(the first two and a half minutes)
Or this, which didn't have a stupid embedding code.
Or this, which also didn't have an embedding code. Is it me?
Ms. Moriarty,
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Regards,
Gubby
Your book title is great, but perhaps you should amend it to "Married to a Straightman (or Straight-man)" since you aren't talking about sexual orientation. This way Gubby won't need to worry. And I love PBT as a sandwich.
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