Laughter is the best medicine!

[Deb]

OK, this brought laughter tears to my eyes. If you've ever had a dog, you'll like this. You have to listen closely. This dog has its own YT channel.

[Deb]

Okay here's a vid. The guy gets a letter about beavers building dams on his property from the .gov, and his reply. It's hilarious!

Dam good one! And I'd take a beaver dam over a dam bear any day.

Speaking of beavers, have you seen this one? It's a little nerve-racking but no beavers were harmed during the making of this video.

[Deb]

SGN with John Krasins

Honestly, SGN is the best thing I've seen during this entire mass event. I wish he could broadcast every day.

Funny, I was thinking about the ISS the other day and thinking if anyone up there comes down with the virus, that will be proof for us Seth Folk that contagion is a state of mind. Boy, talk about isolation. Not my cup of tea.

My happy dance:

[Deb]

Watch Teacher's song about feelings during the pandemic made news hosts cry of laughter:

https://www.ctv.ca/Your-Morning/Video/Teachers-song-about-her-feelings-during-the-pandemic-made-our-hosts-cry-of-laughter-vid1943353?jwsource=cl

[LarryH]

The teacher's song above was wonderful - so inspiring!

Here's SGN episode 5:

[Deb]

The teacher's song above was wonderful - so inspiring!

And the lyrics are so easy to memorize.

Thanks for the SGN!

If anyone has extra time to read useless but funny stuff, despair.com has some great uninspiring posters that are always good for laugh. They look like those inspirational posters hanging in offices, but the messages are very different. https://despair.com/collections/posters  "Wishes" has always been a favorite of mine: "When you wish upon a falling star, your dreams can come true. Unless it's really a meteor hurtling to the Earth which will destroy all life. Then you're pretty much hosed no matter what you wish for. Unless it's death by meteorite."

[chasman]

thanks Deb. very funny.
that would make a good Deep Thought by Jack Handy.   

[LarryH]

I can't stop watching Toby videos!

[Deb]

I can't stop watching Toby videos!

Right? This couple is really clever!

Here's another good one. Lol.

[LarryH]

SGN, Episode 6:

[LarryH]

There are several music parodies inspired by the pandemic. This one is pretty well done:

[Deb]

OMG thank you, that was amazing. Sharing!

[Deb]

OK, this won't make you laugh, but it's amazing and really touching. I saw this video a while back, and then someone sent it to me today. It's a horse in France that is a "comfort" horse, it's taken to nursing homes and hospitals to interact with people. He apparently chooses which rooms to visit. I wasn't sure about this, but a little research turned up other videos of him, lots of articles, even a Ted Talk that's in French.

Meet Peyo, the therapy horse.

[LarryH]

SGN, episode 7:

[Deb]

Thanks for the update! I love this guy.

Glad so see that despite all the craziness going on right now, life goes on and people find creative solutions to still carry through with plans and celebrations. These people will never forget how the virus affected their lives—and it's not all bad either. I've never seen The Office, but I thought that was amazing what the cast did. Certainly memorable for this young couple.

[Deb]

I'd put this up on the forum very early on... a Cosmic Seth comic. I made it extra large so the type could be read, so unless you're full screen you'll have to use the scroll bar across the bottom.

Just another opportunity for "Seth" to remind us that we make our own reality, and we just don't get it. 

[Deb]

No explanation needed.

[LarryH]

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: finally one that is not political...

[LarryH]

Episode 8: SGN

[Deb]

Thanks Larry, will watch them both!

I saw this today, not funny per se but really heartwarming. I love animals, nature is amazing.

[LarryH]

Deb, I loved that!

[Deb]

Silly, but yet funny as we've all had autocorrect failures.

[LarryH]

I always loved these commercials, and I miss them because...He is...the most interesting man in the world.

[Deb]

This has been a working weekend for me, trying to finalize Rich's last book. I've resurfaced, fully intend to catch up.

I LOVED these commercials, they were all so well written. Clever. Character inspiration by Fernando Lamas! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Interesting_Man_in_the_World

"He lives vicariously through himself."

Thanks for the laughs!

[Deb]

[jbseth]

Hi Deb,

That's really funny. What a horse race. 

Thanks for brightening up our day.

-jbseth

[Deb]

I thought these were interesting comparisons: a cat's first taste of ice cream vs. a baby's.

https://www.gif-vif.com/gifs/Cat-tries-ice-cream-for-the-first-time

[LarryH]

Hard to know what the cat was going through - brain freeze, maybe? Anyway, here's something else to make you smile:
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200614.html

[Deb]

Hard to imagine brain freeze, it was just a tiny lick of ice cream on the tongue. Maybe the flavor? Could have been something like peppermint... It was pretty wild.

Great dance video, what a great assignment for Mr. Happy Feet! For a split second I thought they'd sent him up to the space station, lol.

[jbseth]

Hi All,

I hope this website and video comes across OK.

I saw this today at live science. A new beach park here in Oregon has just opened, commemorating the "blasting" of a sperm whale in Florence, Oregon in 1970.  Check out the 6 minute video. It's a blast (OK, I apologize, I couldn't help myself with that pun) 


https://www.livescience.com/exploding-whale-park-oregon.html


-jbseth

[Deb]

Wow, what a story! Guess they won't be exploding any more whales, seemed like they could have thought that out a little more. Loved the song!

As long as we're being kinda off-color, we have a few odd festivals here in Colorado, and these came about long before weed was legal here, if you know what I mean.

One is Frozen Dead Guy Days. Some old guy died 30 years ago and wanted to be kept frozen, so was kept on ice in a shed in Nederland by family. It was a bit of a controversy when I first moved here. The town of Nederland started the festival in his honor and as a way to celebrate the end of winter. https://frozendeadguydays.org/aboutfdgd

Then there's the Coffin Races & Festival in Manitou Springs, inspired by a woman who had been buried on a hillside in 1891. Her coffin was spit out of the hillside due to heavy rains in 1929, and it came racing down the mountain, and was later discovered by some kids. http://www.emmacrawfordfestival.com/

This is one I find disturbing, Mike the Headless Chicken Festival in Fruita. Yes, Mike was a headless chicken who lived for 18 months after he lost his head. Graphic Alert: Not for the squeamish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken

[jbseth]

This is one I find disturbing, Mike the Headless Chicken Festival in Fruita

Hi Deb,

Holy Cow, or should I say Headless Chicken. 

That's a pretty amazing story about Mike the Headless Chicken.

- jbseth

[Deb]

An entertaining story about an eccentric business man named Timothy Dexter [1747-1806] who, despite receiving and implementing terrible business advice, managed to succeed over and over. Foresight, extraordinary luck, or a stellar belief system?

Dexter was an eccentric businessman who had very little schooling and was "nearly illiterate." He was working as a farm laborer at the age of 8. As an adult, he managed to marry a rich widow.

He bought large amounts of Continental currency that was worthless at the time. After the Revolutionary war was over, the government bought its notes back at 1% face value and the state of Massachusetts paid its own notes at face value. He became a very wealthy man. He purchased ships and began an expert business to the West Indies and Europe. Excerpts from the Wiki:

"Because he was largely uneducated, his business sense was considered peculiar. He was advised to send warming pans (used to heat sheets in the cold New England winters) for sale to the West Indies, a tropical area. This advice was a deliberate ploy by other businessmen to get him bankrupted. His [ship] captain sold them as ladles for the local molasses industry and made a good profit.

"Next, Dexter sent wool mittens to the same place, where Asian merchants bought them for export to Siberia.

"People jokingly told him to "ship coal to Newcastle." He did so during a miners' strike at the time, and his cargo was sold at a premium.

"At another time, practical jokers told him he could make money shipping gloves to the South Sea Islands. His ships arrived there in time to sell the gloves to Portuguese boats on their way to China.

"He exported Bibles to the East Indies and stray cats to Caribbean islands and again made a profit: Eastern missionaries were in need of the Bibles and the Caribbean welcomed a solution to rat infestation."

And finally: "At age 50, Dexter authored A Pickle for the Knowing Ones or Plain Truth in a Homespun Dress, in which he complained about politicians, the clergy, and his wife. The book contained 8,847 words and 33,864 letters, but without punctuation and seemingly random capitalization. Dexter initially handed his book out for free, but it became popular and was reprinted eight times.

"In the second edition, Dexter added an extra page which consisted of 13 lines of punctuation marks with the instructions that readers could distribute them as they pleased."

There are some issues with the Wiki article that need to be researched, but there are enough stories out there about him. Here's an excellent article about him, worth reading: https://priceonomics.com/the-strange-life-of-lord-timothy-dexter/, with more details than the Wiki. For example:

"When Dexter purchased several large ships and announced his intentions to launch a business in international trade, his fed-up neighbors reportedly seized the opportunity to provide him with horrible investment ventures, in the hopes that he'd bankrupt himself and be forced to move.

One of these neighbors recommended that Dexter sell warming pans (wide, flat brass pans with long handles used for warming beds in the 18th century) in the West Indies (a European colonial territory known for its year-round hot weather). The trusting Dexter purchased no less than 42,000 of the pans, dispersed them in nine shipping vessels, and set off to sell them -- his actions, all the while, eliciting thunderous laughter from experienced traders. But it was Dexter who got the last chuckle: when he arrived and found no need for warming devices, he rebranded them as ladles and sold them to sugar and molasses plantation owners. The demand was so great that each owner clamored to buy at least three or four; Dexter marked up the pans by 79%, and returned with an even greater fortune."

Lol. Reminds me of John Candy in Planes, Trains and Automobiles selling shower curtain rings as earrings, etc. Another classic.

Wiki here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Dexter

[Deb]

I finally get that "love is love."

[LarryH]

Now, I'm gonna feel guilty next time I eat chicken!

[jbseth]

Hi All,

Here's a funny story I recently came across,

As a singer I sing at many funerals & I was recently asked by a funeral director to play & sing at a graveside service for a homeless man. He had no family or friends, so the service was to be at a pauper's cemetery out in the country. As I was not familiar with the area, I got lost. I finally arrived an hour late and saw that the funeral guy had evidently gone and the hearse was nowhere in sight. There were only the diggers and crew left and they were eating lunch. I felt badly and apologized to the men for being late. I went to the side of the grave and looked down and the vault lid was already in place. I didn't know what else to do, so I started to play. The workers put down their lunches and began to gather around. I played out my heart and soul for this man with no family and friends. I sang like I've never played before for this homeless man.

As I sang & played "Amazing Grace", the workers began to weep. They wept, I wept, we all wept together. When I finished, I packed up my keyboard and started for my car. Though my head hung low, my heart was full.

As I opened the door to my car, I heard one of the workers say, "I've never seen nothin' like that before and I've been putting in septic tanks for twenty years." Apparently, I'm still lost...


-jbseth

[Deb]

That was an AWESOME joke, thank you!

Here's an adorable video of a baby elephant obviously not yet in charge of his body.

[Deb]

And then there's this:

[Deb]

My contribution tonight because... just because.

My favorite Weird Al song because I'm a nerd. And I went to elementary school when they were still teaching cursive and grammar. I love to laugh. Life is too short without laughter.

[jbseth]

Hi Deb,

Thanks for that.  I loved it.

I've always thought that "Weird Al" was awesome.  I didn't know that he did a parody to that song.

I loved his, "Another one rides the bus", done to the tune of Queens, "Another one bites the dust".


Wow that was really great.

-jbseth

[Deb]

I think I've loved everything Weird Al has done. The Michael Jackson songs especially. Well, OK the Amish one too.

Here's a meme that is almost more sad than funny, because it's too true.

[jbseth]

Hi Deb,

Yeah. I too liked Weird Al's versions of Michael Jacksons songs.

So many any of his songs (Weird Al's) are so witty. Like the one you posted on Grammar, which was always my worse subject in school. Mostly because I hated it.

I got real familiar with it in college though.  At the University of Florida, my Freshman English Professor was a Rhodes Scholar and each week he had us write a 500 word paper, where it was given a failed grade if there were two spelling errors or two grammatical errors.

This was 1976, pre-computer days, when papers were written in cursive writing using ink and paper.

I went through a lot of paper and learned a lot about Grammar that term.


I agree, ironically, the meme is also largely true.

-jbseth

[chasman]

Seen on a restroom wall: "God is dead: Nietzsche. Nietzsche is dead: God."

(I think Seth might say: Neitzche is still alive. there is no death.
and ATI is alive and doing well.)   

* * * * * * *

Descartes walks into a café and sits down ready to order. A waiter comes up to him and asks, "Do you need a menu?" Descartes replies, "I think not," and he disappears!

* * * * * * *

Overheard in 18th century England: "Did you hear that George Berkeley died? His girlfriend stopped seeing him."

* * * * * * *

What did the Buddhist say to the hot dog vendor? "Make me one with everything." What did the hot dog vendor say when the Buddhist asked for his change? "Change comes from within."

* * * * * * *

Did you hear about the Buddhist who spilled his coffee while driving to work? He had bad kar-mug.

[jbseth]

Hi Chasman.

Those are great.  Many thanks for sharing.

Along those same lines, how about this one.


Can Immanuel Kant's beliefs about rationality that he dubbed the "Categorical Imperative" be irrational. No they Kant.

(I know, that was pretty horrible, but oh well, maybe it'll make somebody smile).

-jbseth

[chasman]

thank you jbseth.

and that made me smile.   

[Deb]

Those were great! I especially liked the Buddist hot dog, the Descartes one, lol. That one could probably fit in with the other topic about belief vs. knowing.

So I looked at @Michael Sternbach's web link, and see he does Tarot readings. I thought he (and the rest of you) would get a kick out of my Tarot deck. I don't read them generally, I just bought them because I thought they were as clever as all get out. With a sort of domestic goddess/Betty Crocker theme. The box looks like a recipe box, and the divider cards have recipes on them for things like "Divinated Eggs" and "Madam Marlena's Mystical Martini."   

[jbseth]

Hi Deb,

Wow those tarot cards are great.

I especially like "the Hanged man" one where the man was clothespinned to the clothesline.

-jbseth

[Michael Sternbach]

Hi Deb

Even though I am the co-founder of a Tarot forum and the owner of quite a nice collection of decks, I never came across that one until now. Awesome... It's so humorous.

Thanks for sharing!

Now I wonder what a Seth Tarot deck could look like... 

[Deb]

Now I wonder what a Seth Tarot deck could look like... 

Funny you should ask that... it would probably be somehow similar to the Seth analog clock, where every hour simply says "now."

There was a Seth card deck years ago, but I think it was more about quotes rather than Tarot. Ron Card (a person on Facebook who has a Seth group and owns much of the Seth/Jane artifacts such as ouija board, Kennedy rocker, coffee table, iconic painting of Seth by Rob) told me a few years ago he was working on a set of cards himself, but it seems it has not progressed. Just recently I was in touch with Mary Dillman and we talked about cards. It motivated me to maybe design a deck, artwork inspired by Seth quotes, similar to what Abraham Hicks produced. Just for fun. I may just start and see where it goes.

Do you think a Seth Tarot deck would be popular? Or more so a deck of quotes that a person could pick at random? Just curious. Maybe I should start a poll...

Adding a photo from Venice, Italy, 2013. I thought it was funny. Dozens of monks were all on board for a canal ride via gondolas. It may be hard to see, but I was there and saw what was going on and thought "Huh? Don't monks take a vow of poverty?" Every one of them had either a nice 35mm camera, iPad or smart phone and were snapping pictures like nobody's business. All grinning from ear to ear. I guess even monks need a "get away from it all" vacation.

[Michael Sternbach]

Now I wonder what a Seth Tarot deck could look like... 

Funny you should ask that... it would probably be somehow similar to the Seth analog clock, where every hour simply says "now."

There was a Seth card deck years ago, but I think it was more about quotes rather than Tarot. Ron Card (a person on Facebook who has a Seth group and owns much of the Seth/Jane artifacts such as ouija board, Kennedy rocker, coffee table, iconic painting of Seth by Rob) told me a few years ago he was working on a set of cards himself, but it seems it has not progressed. Just recently I was in touch with Mary Dillman and we talked about cards. It motivated me to maybe design a deck, artwork inspired by Seth quotes, similar to what Abraham Hicks produced. Just for fun. I may just start and see where it goes.

Do you think a Seth Tarot deck would be popular? Or more so a deck of quotes that a person could pick at random? Just curious. Maybe I should start a poll...

Adding a photo from Venice, Italy, 2013. I thought it was funny. Dozens of monks were all on board for a canal ride via gondolas. It may be hard to see, but I was there and saw what was going on and thought "Huh? Don't monks take a vow of poverty?" Every one of them had either a nice 35mm camera, iPad or smart phone and were snapping pictures like nobody's business. All grinning from ear to ear. I guess even monks need a "get away from it all" vacation.

I would much prefer a deck with art work over one only presenting quotes. Even though there would be nothing wrong with combining the two.

And yes, I think such a deck could be immensely popular if designed by the right person. Honestly, I couldn't think of anybody better suited for this job than you! 

I was thinking of an actual Tarot deck, though, with all 22 major arcana and 56 minor arcana, but dedicated to Seth's metaphysical universe somehow.