My friend and I want to play some harmless but very funny pranks on my neighbors and my brother. anyone got any ideas?
O irony, thy name is book review!
I had the relative indifference of reading The Funniest Baseball Book ever: the National Pastime’s Greatest Quips, Quotations, Characters, Nicknames, and Pranks
O irony! O cruel twist of fate!
This book claims to be the funniest baseball book ever and instead it turns out that it’s a perfectly decent non-picture coffee table book, suitable for leaving out before your guests arrive, having a chuckle or two over and then quickly trying to find something else to do with your friends.
I guess I should say, regardless of what you read on this blog and how funny you may or may not think I am on any given day, I’m a snob about comedy. if you’re a “big Dane Cook” fan then we will never connect at a certain level. if you really like Carlos Mencia, then I’m not sure what you’re even doing on this site. however, if you like Mitch Hedberg, Dave Chappelle, Zack Galifianakis, we can be friends. if you’re not afraid to admit that you like Paula Poundstone and Ellen Degeneres, all the better.
Others may truly find this book the funniest baseball book ever and to those people, I salute you. You are enjoying life at a level that I will never understand.
However, if you have my sense of humor, then the best source of humor might be to let somebody else read the book who finds it funny and then laugh at them as you wonder what they’re laughing about. if you’re lucky, they will explain to you what they find funny and reveal a thing or two about your snobbish nature. I always find this funny. Watching people laugh at something that means nothing to me. I’m like an emotionless Star Trek Vulcan or Star Wars droid, always shaking my head over the human condition.
What it isn’t: I have no objective metrics, but it isn’t the funniest baseball book ever.
What it is: a collection of mostly humorous quotes and some essays about baseball’s funny history. in this, it’s perfectly respectable. if it had been called a Relatively funny Book of Baseball Quotations and Other Trivialities, we might’ve been OK.
What I wish it was:
First off, I wish there were some photographs or some drawings or something. Baseball is a great game to leave to the imagination, but that doesn’t mean that one’s imagination couldn’t use some help.
Second, I wish there was an index so that I could think to myself, I remember that. that was pretty funny. Lemme see if this here funnyman book has anything about that. Alas there isn’t. There are lots of references to other pages within the pages like, Skip around! It’s here somewhere!
Thirdly, I wish that there was more to it. I would’ve been perfectly willing to sacrifice some of the less funny quotes in favor of more context and essays, which are interspersed. Alas, it was not meant to be.
I give this book a recommendation if you’re going to buy it as a gift to somebody.
If, after that faintly indifferent review, you are still interested in the book, but not so much that you are willing to purchase it, I have a copy that I would like to give you. I am not willing to mail it to anybody though so you will have to come find me at the game today. I will be wearing an SD hoodie and an SD hat. I am wearing black glasses. I may have a child and a pregnant blonde lady with me.
Here’s a hint, if you comment something funny to Gaslamp Ball here or on Twitter, then I will be more willing to shrug off people who manage to find me first in an effort to reward you with a copy of the book directly.
April Fool’s Day is almost upon us, and what better way to warm up our laughter than with a few funny quotes? Chances are, you’re going to pull a few pranks (and be the center of one or two) when April 1st rolls around. Let these funny quotes get your humorous side ready for this day of great fun.
1. “April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.” ~ Mark Twain
2. “It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.” ~ Max Eastman
3. “Isn’t it appropriate that the month of the tax begins with April Fool’s Day and ends with cries of “May Day!”?” ~ Author Unknown
4. “Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.” ~ Charles Lamb
5. “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” ~ Oscar Wilde
6. “Love is like a booger. You keep picking at it until you get it, then wonder what to do with it.” ~ Author Unknown
7. “You grow up the day you have your first real laugh — at yourself.” ~ Ethel Barrymore
8. “You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, “My God, you’re right! I never would’ve thought of that!” ~ Dave Barry
9. “The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.” ~ JD Bernal
10. “Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.” ~ Carl Gustav Jung
11. “A word to the wise ain’t necessary — it’s the stupid ones that need the advice” ~ bill Cosby
12. Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. ~ will Rogers
13. “I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.” ~ Alan Coren
14. “A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
While the phrase “April fool” started out as a way to ridicule those who refused to change with the times (back in the 1500’s) it’s now a way to share our humorous side with family, friends and colleagues. This year, make a promise to yourself to play at least one April Fool’s joke and to be a good sport when you’re the butt of one. after all, the ability to laugh at one’s self is a sure sign that you’re not really a fool, regardless of what day or month it is. Get yourself in the laughing mood with the above 14 funny quotes.
For more funny quotes, check out the popular funny quotes section of Famous-Quotes-And-Quotations.com, a website that specializes in ‘Top 10′ lists of quotations in dozens of categories.
FAKE LOTTO TICKETS AND PET PRANKS, ON ABC’S “AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS”
“Episode 2018″ Clips include people getting excited over fake lotto tickets, plus pet pranks — including two dogs who are threatened by a photo of a cat, a man who has trained his dog to fetch him a beer from the fridge, and kids who chase and terrify their dad with a dead bat — on “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” SUNDAY, MARCH 14 (7:00-8:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.
Tom Bergeron is the host.
“America’s Funniest Home Videos” is the longest-running primetime show in ABC history. in its 20 seasons to date, “America’s Funniest Home Videos” has given away over $11 million in prize money and evaluated more than half a million videotapes from home viewers. Viewers wishing to submit home videos to “America’s Funniest Home Videos” should visit www.ABC.com for details. Vin Di Bona is executive producer, with Todd Thicke and Michele Nasraway serving as co-executive producers.
This program carries a TV-PG parental guideline.
