Re: catch me up

From: toughslush <meurtre_at_earthlink.net_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 09:22:07 -0000

> > > Sharose: Ask John to tell you Olive history through jokes.
>>> He should start with the Danny/Glen stories
 
> > Danny and Glen were a real-life Beavis and Butthead,
>> except even more socially inept and destructive (most of
>> their pyromaniacal antics literally backfired spectacularly,
>> and their various pranks usually ended up with them
> > as the ultimate victims). I myself was almost SHOT by
>> the former, but that's a story in itself.
>
> Seeing those names certainly takes me down memory lane...
>
> The three of us were in junior high, and we had an interest in
> anything that could be blown up. We made our own
> gunpowder for years.
> Occasionally, we made more exotic things:
>
> 1) poor man's napalm (made from gasoline and styro-plastic)
> 2) fulminating mercury
> 3) acetyline combustion bomb

Some of us just take out our pyromania in playing fast-and-loose
with the charcoal when we grill stuff.

> These worked quite well, but unfortunately our delivery
> system (e.g. rocket) was not always reliable, so often
> the system would explode while we were standing over it!
> The combustion explosion was particularly scary, since it
> once blew up in Danny's bedroom and
> slammed all the doors shut in the process!

Well, if anyone knows about indoor fireworks, it's you. Really
charming when you put that firecracker under the door on that
cabin trip when I was with . . . Domingo. I'm sure. (Crossing my
fingers and toes, here!)

>Truthfully, with all our
> antics we were very lucky not to have gotten hurt,
> especially since both Danny and Glen were usually a
> little careless.

I'm sure that that was more than Sharose wanted to know. As a
matter of fact, I DON'T think she wants to hear all the old olive
jokes--ESPECIALLY those that involved Danny and Glen.
 
> > As I have often said:
> >
> > The FIRST time, it's kinda funny
> > The TENTH time, it's ANNOYING
> > The HUNDREDTH time, it's like TORTURE
> > The THOUSANDTH time, it's HYSTERICALLY FUNNY, and I
can't figure
> out WHY
>
> I think it depends on the delivery. A joke has to be said the right
> way to be funny. Some people have a gift at telling jokes and
> stories. Look at John Cleese: I have seen all the Faulty Towers
> episodes and could easily watch them again and laugh at the
same
> jokes.

Not wanting to be offensive, but you are, Sweetie, no John
Cleese. There is--how shall I put it?--a difference between using
finesse and brute force.

--Q.M.
Received on 2002-07-05 02:22:10