Am I too easily amused?

[thatcrazycajun]

Found the userpic above this morning and am still laughing various body parts off at it. I'm not sure why; it's one of those things I spend five minutes laughing—not just chuckling, but belly-laughing, gasping-for-oxygen laughing—and then hear a scornful voice in my brain saying, "Jeeze, come on, it's not that funny!" followed by another voice retorting, "Sure it is!" and laughing some more. (An old and dear friend once told me, "It's okay to talk to yourself, and even to answer yourself...as long as neither one of you says, 'Huh?'")

My ex-GF Anne (now darrenzieger's wife) and I have many running jokes left over from our brief but tumultuous romance; one of them is that, when I'd have one of these humor-gasms, she'd come back five minutes later and ask, "Now what's so funny?" and I'd reply, "Same thing!" Now all I have to do is say those last two words in order to crack her up. (Somehow my current partner and I don't seem to have developed such a back catalog of shared jokes, even after six years; not sure why—it's not as if she lacks a sense of humor, by any means.) (As evidenced by the fact that she's put up with your sorry, bony ass for six years?) (Shaddap you mouf.)

Am I just too immature to know when to stop laughing at something? Is anyone else able to get so much mileage out of one joke or funny incident?

Comments

[catalana.livejournal.com]

*laugh* I have running jokes with lots of people. And some things amuse me years later and can make me smile (or laugh) just by thinking about them. I don't think it's just you.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Some folks are just easily amused. Not that there's anything wrong with that... it can be great fun when you've got a videocam handy. :)

[maugorn.livejournal.com]

I think that the pic is just grate!

[baggette.livejournal.com]

He would pun....
would make ME laugh!

Though I would not say "you are perfectly normal",
I would say that your response to THAT Icon is perfectly reasonable.

Thanks for sharing that!

[magicwoman.livejournal.com]

No, David and I do it all the time! We'll hear a joke and run it into the ground - but in a funny way.

Susan

[jannyblue.livejournal.com]

The sick part is that I instantly recognized the book series that image comes from...

And I remembered that I wanted to buy it for myself one of these years...

They're up to three of them, last I knew. All rather morbid and sick.

(google "bunny suicides" for more info)

[darrenzieger.livejournal.com]

Wow. Thanks for introducing me to the Book of Bunny Suicides! Great stuff :)

Now on my way to Amazon.com, to order a couple of Andy Riley books...one-click ordering is a dangerous thing...

Need a ref?

[a-phoenix-afire.livejournal.com]

I've always thought that it's OK to talk to yourself, even argue out loud if necessary, but if you come to blows, we're gonna have to separate the two of you.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

"blessed are the easily amused, for we shall be easily amused"

[filkferengi]

You mean laughing until things hurt isn't a standard feature?

[singing-phoenix.livejournal.com]

Thanksgiving 2001. My mom's kitchen. A generous helping of ice cream and a careless remark. 'Nuff said?

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Quite enough, young lady. :-) Suffice to say both of us were embarrassed by my faux pas and leave it at that. Anything else funny you can think of between us? (Preferably things that don't involve humiliation for either of us.)