Randomness makes me laugh, which is a good thing, I guess, since my life is pretty random. Also, for you Pittsburgh folks out there, columnist Bob Smizik in the Post Gazette usually makes me laugh too, since his sports stories are so true yet he writes it so the players sound even more pathetic than they are.
I also got a lot of laughter out of the time my best buddy and I threw old computers from our school into the dumpster. I don't know why, but I laughed so hard at it. I think it's because I'm not really that up on technology and I've wanted to do it to so many of the computers that my school and college use/have used. I know Mac OS 9 (and the one that came before it, System 7) and that's about it. The school actually gave me this ancient Macintosh because the new computer dude didn't know how to use it and they knew I used the older Macs. I've only turned it on once and I don't use it much at all, but it looks sort of cute on my desk next to my iBook. It's one of those little fellows with a built in monitor called a "Color Classic". They say it can handle the internet with some card that they put in it for me, so maybe I'll try it if I ever get more adventerous with computers. (And for the record, I have a couple other old Macs sitting around--my old "Macintosh LC" from my childhood that is in its box (maybe it will be worth something?) and this black and white one which looks sort of like the "Color Classic" that's probably as old as I am called a "Macintosh SE" that I use for Quicken because nobody would probably steal something that old, plus I don't have a newer version of Quicken--my dad found this computer and had no use for it so I use it for my bank account. It's actually a really easy computer to use).
Yeah, I ranted off there. Another thing I find relatively funny, speaking of computers, is some people on AIM. I've seen people with the most random screen names, or ones that describe them perfectly that just seem really funny. Also, the way some people talk on AIM amuses me not only because it looks sort of funny but because I have to look it up--my dad got me a mouse pad that I used to keep next to my computer that had the meaning of all of them on there. Things like "L.O.L" or "B.R.B". They sounded like college degrees or something to me until I decoded them. It's pathetic that my dad knows more about internet lingo than I do, but then again I don't spend four hours in front of the computer at a time (though I've been using it more since I started college since all my friends are on AIM at night and that way I can talk to more than one at a time--the phone limits me to only one but I like the phone better because there is nothing better than a good converstion!)
Another thing that makes me laugh is when people have funny accents. I'm from Pennsylvania, so I laugh at southern accents all the time. When the movie "Forrest Gump" opened, I was laughing like a madman at Tom Hanks doing the Alabama accent. A lot of things in that movie made me laugh, like that line about Apple Computer being a fruit company and especially the entire football scene. (I used to think Apple Computer was somehow related to the local orchard when I was a little kid, so it really made me laugh). I have to really control myself when people talk with heavy accents from other countries (British especially). I don't know why, but it just makes me laugh.
There is one big thing I don't find funny though, and that would be bathroom humor. Burps, passing gas, and bodily excretion does nothing for me. For some reason most of the guys (and a few of the girls) I know seem to think it's pretty funny, but I don't see what's so funny about something that's not only disgusting but also just part of human life. It's like laughing at someone because their small intestine processes food, and I know nobody here probably laughs at that sort of stuff.
I also don't find people getting cheap laughs at the expense of others very funny. I have a friend, she's like a little sister to me, who is very ticklish. She literally will scream like she's been murdered and kick whoever tickles her really hard if you get her. Well, a good friend of mine liked to see this reaction. He tickled this poor girl intentionally many times just to see this (I had to get in his way for him to stop it). I mean, her reaction was funny, but she was in so much pain as a result. So I didn't laugh at all when I saw this happen.
Well, that was a long post, but it looks like it's been a while since anyone on this board has been amused (the last update to this topic looks to be sometime in June) so I guess this makes up for the four weeks or so nobody posted?
