Category Archives: laugh out loud

The Joy Of Eggs…

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Being Easter Sunday, I have been thinking about what sort of Easter post I should write…and bonnets and bunnies were just not inspiring me at all.  But sometimes inspiration comes from the most unlikely places and while I was meandering through my list of favourite blogs, I came across an absolute gem from adbroad (the oldest working writer in advertising or so she says).

Apparently this episode of ‘I Love Lucy’ got the longest recorded laugh in television history (no canned laughter for these bastions of situation comedy)…

I laughed out loud (the neighbours must be wondering what is going on) and thought it was a perfect way to bring a little joy into a sunshine-y Easter Sunday.
And let’s face it, it brings a whole new hilarity to the phrase ‘walking on eggshells’.
Enjoy and have a wonderful Easter!
ps…if you liked watching this episode, click here to head on over to adbroad’s latest post and watch some more!

Midlife…The Journey Continues…

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Those of you who read Gidday from the UK on a fairly regular basis will know that I was recently inspired by an excerpt from freebie mag Stylist to invest my little Amazon birthday voucher in The Midlife Manual.

It’s not a cover to cover read (like my commuting choices) but I’m dipping in and reading a few choice morsels every few nights before I go to sleep.  And I’m inspired to share a LOL moment with you.

There’s a section on a Midlifer’s ‘Obsession With Lists Of Things To Do Before You Die’.  I have been an on-and-off list person so could relate to some of the ‘most common’ – make a will (oops!), have tea at the Ritz (done), write a novel (uuummmm!) and take a trip in a hot-air balloon (done – for birthday number 33).

But this was the LOL moment.  They mentioned that the author of ‘100 Things To Do Before You Die‘ (Dave Freeman if you must know) died at the age of 47.  Quite young you might say and having only visited about half the places on his own list. You’d think he would have departed this world in some grand adventuring fashion, skydiving over Everest or swimming the Amazon. But in actual fact he fell over at home – and hit his head!

I wonder which place on his list he was visiting?

Life in the UK…A Guilty Pleasure…

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With yesterday’s birthday festivities done and dusted, the final day of my birthday-treat-to-myself, four-day weekend is well underway and I am indulging in a little delightful daytime telly, a few episodes of the ultimate combination of ego, pretentiousness and witty put-downs, Come Dine With Me.  While I love passing vicarious judgement on the food, hosts, houses and guests at each weeknight dinner party, the best bit is definitely Dave Lamb, voice-over extraordinaire, who tracks the behind-the-scenes shenanigans both in and out of the kitchen.

I’ve just been laughing at Dave’s reaction to Night 1 (lamb’s testicles and a falling out – unrelated), Night 2 (speechlessly bad food, gifts of crystals and a truce – again unrelated), Night 3 (great food that nobody could pronounce and a falling out) and Night 4 (mackeral with a rhubarb & sorrel sauce and more falling out). 

We are now at Night 5, the host of which has been the focus of Night 2 host’s righteous indignation – Night 2 host has just arrived before anyone else and she’s as frosty as a popsicle (and I am hoping her fellow diners are about to tell her exactly what she might do with it!)

Must go…I wouldn’t want to miss a moment!

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In the meantime if you don’t believe how smugly funny this show is (I hear it’s made its way Down Under and Stateside), you can read a couple of other little snippets below (and yes the WAGs special was priceless).
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N2 host caused so much friction at the table that N5 host asked her to have her dessert IN THE NEXT ROOM….LOL!
ppps…
364 sleeps to go…
Ha ha just kidding. Even I can’t sustain the interest, excitement or badgering for that long…

Come Dine With Me: Wags Special (guardian.co.uk)

Why Come Dine With Me is a gem | Marina O’Loughlin (guardian.co.uk)

Email Giggles: the Purina Diet…

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I was going through my emails last night, deleting all the dross and things I haven’t gotten round to following up on (or even reading in the first place) so that I can have a clean email box start to the week, when I came across this ‘story’ forwarded by one of my friends. It made me laugh out loud so I thought I’d share it with you all to get your week off to a good hearty start….

Yesterday I was at my local CO-OP buying a large bag of Purina dog food for my loyal pet and was in the checkout queue when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog. What did she think I had, an elephant? So, since I’m retired and have little to do, on impulse I told her that no, I didn’t have a dog, I was starting the Purina Diet again. I added that I probably shouldn’t, because I ended up in hospital last time, but that I’d lost 2 stones before I woke up in intensive care with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms. I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete so it works well and I was going to try it again. (I have to mention here that practically everyone in queue was now enthralled with my story.) Horrified, she asked me if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me. I told her no, I stepped off a curb to sniff an Irish Setter’s a**e and a car hit us both.
I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack he was laughing so hard.
I’m now banned from the Co-op. Better watch what you ask retired people. They have all the time in the world to think of daft things to say.

Hope this gave you a laugh for the day….personally I can’t wait to ‘retire’ and embark on this kind of irreverent behaviour…maybe I could squeeze in some practice in the meantime!?

Tee hee….

Sage Advice….

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I am at home feeling completely bleeeaaaggghh today (I will spare you the details) and have only just emerged from my sickbed. Slumped at my computer, I was in need of some glimmer of light, a little sparkle if you will to lift me out of my ‘sorry-for-myself’ malaise so I trawled through the various email funnies sent by family and friends over the last few days.  And I am please to report that thanks to my old schoolmate Jennie, I was not disappointed!

Check out the funniest, laugh-out-loud pearls of wisdom from our erstwhile National Health Service – in public view for all to see…
Oh dear! What will they think of next?