Sunday Funnies #3

Funnies, Mostly in Blogville!

I didn’t think it would happen so soon, but I did not find much funny in the LA Times today. In fact, can’t say I even cracked a smile.

It could be because I don’t think I got a wink of sleep last night. Sleepless nights have a way of sapping you of laughter. Knowing I have fellow bloggers out there, I decided to make the supreme sacrifice and get out of my jammies and go to pick up another newspaper.

Sheesh. Nobody told me I needed to go to the bank first. Since when has a Sunday paper cost more than $1.00, especially for a much lesser read paper? Since I was in my new, improved car there is no nice little change drawer where I have built up an emergency fund, so I was off to the market where I could get cash back, because I needed 40 cents more. I figure that whole little trip cost me …including the turkey, cranberry sauce, cherry pie, hairspray, and gas, a mere $42.78. (A girl has to feed her hubby, with purty hair!)

There better be something funny in this paper! (Takes break to thumb through.)

Ahhhhhhh-Haaaaaa! I found the perfect article, in view of the whole “Look at the Chicken” thing which our own partyof5dj started last week.

Written by Melissa Dribben of Knight Ridder Newspapers (The Star, Ventura County News) is an article entitled, “Code Dependent”.

As she states in her opening paragraph, “Dan Brown is good. But as ingenious as “The Da Vinci Code” may be, the author can’t compete with the average American family, office staff and college campus in the fabrication of impenetrable codes.”

Nah, she’s not talking about intricate computer codes, whew, or LOL’s used for Instant Messages. Nope, she is speaking of the secret acronyms, can you say STOP-PERV, (Sadistic Treatment of Poultry-Protecting Every Rooster’s Vitals), coined by partyof5dj in his blog of today, sub textural phrases and redefined nouns that people invent with their family or friends. Insider codes that we all have come to know right here in Blogville, “look at the chicken being our famous one which has made the rounds in our little world. According to the Party Dude, this is how that particular one came about; “When one of us gets sidetracked in a conversation, we’ll often say to the other, ‘Oh look, a chicken!’, just to get back on track.”

I first borrowed that phrase in a later blog. Now it has become a “standard” in Blogville when we want to digress within our blogs.

There are others, which are used or remembered by most of us, like when our parents said to us before school or a date, “You’re wearing THAT?” Dum-de-dum-dum, we just knew we were going to have to go change out of the offending miniskirt, message T-shirt or whatever it was when they said it. It became a way of using a private, insider language which proves to all that you are…ummmm, close, an insider.

These kinds of things give us a way in which to deliver an often-upsetting message in, shall we say, a kinder, gentler way. These work because you can say the obvious and actually get away with it.

There are three things necessary to have one; an element of humor, secondly, you didn’t really say it and lastly, you involve your closeness by using it.

In the case of Blogville, things, once begun can soon take on a life of their own. Witness the last few days where poor Olivia Newton John has become the latest one to reek havoc, soon we’ll have just plain “NIBO”, as a code, Nightmares Inspired By Olivia, created from a dream by CCstring as he threw her into his pile of hay, with battery cables, and…and….Gawd who knows what will come out of this? But one thing is for sure; it is very funny, funnier than my newspapers today! Now, I gotta go read the blogs and see what codes will be used in future blogs if we don’t MOOB (Mind Our Own Blogs).