Some nights, I can't sleep.
I don't know why. I guess I think about things a lot. I have never quite figured out how to shut my brain off in the dark.
Around 4am, I finally drifted off. I woke up in a melancholy haze that I still can't shake. Too bad, because it really is a beautiful day outside. Clear and warm. I read a book at lunchtime while lying in the sun on a concrete wall over at the Warner Brothers Studios building. Somehow, though, the good weather and niceness of the day just makes me more depressed.
So I'm sorry, but no funny stories today. Unless you feel like telling me one, of course. That would be nice.
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I'm digging deep in my funny story memory banks. But I don't think you've heard this one, and it features beccaline.
The first time I met my (then future-) husband's family was when he took me and three visiting friends to his house in the Lake District. They'd cooked up a really nice meal with candlelight and lace tablecloths. As we sat around the table, the dog (a big one, about knee-height) was roaming around underneath hoping for scraps. In between mouthfuls, our friend B. looked up and said, 'Is that the dog?' Future Husband's Dad looked up and said, 'Isn't that the dog?'
The answer was no on both counts. B. thought that it was a wagging tail on her knee, and FHD thought that he had been petting the dog (or so he always claims). Turns out...well you can guess how it turns out. No wonder Britons coined the phrase 'dirty old man' ; )
eldila, that cheered me up something proper, i must say! i am still smiling.
thank you!!
(beccaline, had you not shaved your legs in awhile?? :) sorry, had to ask!)
anyone else care to share? i love hearing other people's stories!
I was wearing pants! And yeah, the worst part of this story, in my opinion, is that it has grown to be family lore for candace's in-laws and now whenever I see them it is amusement at great length for anyone present.
Good thing I can't really understand them when they talk about it! ;) Oh those wacky brits.
Esteemed Grackyfrogg:
I may not have a funny anecdote that I can recall and that I could share to raise your mood.
I, however, have a suggestion inspired by news reports this past week: psilocybin!
Imagine, reports this week have etched the term "God pill".
The Wall Street Journal.........."A third of the participants said the experience with psilocybin was the single most significant experience of their lives, and an additional 38% rated it among their top five such experiences -- akin to, say, the birth of a first child or the death of a parent."
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB115258280486902994-AkOJkdepEq_uYKdjxsfSC_cKVtw_20060809.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top
The Los Angeles Times..........."Afterward, they were asked to rate their experiences for sacredness, transcendence, unity and intuitive knowledge. Two-thirds of them described their drug trip as among the five most profound events in their lives, rivaling the birth of a child.
The subjects were surveyed two months later and reported that they continued to feel a sense of well-being."
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-mystical11jul11,0,3028620.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Sooo...? What 'cha waitin' fer? Git yerself out to South Central, find yo'self some vagrants, and score a few onces.
No more "melancholy" baby! At least for a few months.
Regards
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well, JerryNJ, in the words of val kilmer as mad martigan dressed in drag in Willow:
"tempting, but...no."
:)
interesting news items, though. i'm fascinated at the examples used in the WSJ: the experience was like the BIRTH of a child or the DEATH of a parent??? goodness. sounds like some people really got the short end of the deal on that trip, that's all i can say.
Twain, Socrates, Confucious and Val Kilmer......way funny.
The same Val Kilmer who had many quotable quotes in "Wonderland" as John "The Wad" Holmes? The same Val Kilmer who's lines are seared into my collective conciousness with his role as "Ice" in the most mainstream homo-erotic movie of all time: "Top Gun"?
"The Salton Sea" and "The Doors" were not bad, however, he got outplayed in "The Salton Sea" by Vincent D'Onofrio as "Pooh Bear".
http://www.awesomefilm.com/script/wonderland_script.html
http://sfy.ru/sfy.html?script=salton_sea
"TWO MIGS ON MY TAIL, MAVERICK. I'M DEFENSIVE."
http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/TopGun.html
ROTFLMFAO.
Regards
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