Old-but-funny is still funny

[jducoeur]

Today was my mother's birthday party, which occasioned a get-together with my uncle's side of the family. This was generally fun -- among other things, geekery bred true in the family, so we had a fine wide-ranging conversation about topics as diverse as Harry Potter, CGI, steampunk and LARP. (Okay, so when a bunch of geeks are chattering, we aren't *actually* diverse.)

But in the course of conversation, Jon and Rissa brought up the 2007 LJ post I Has a Sweet Potato. How did I miss this? If you, as well, missed it the first time around, and especially if you need a good giggle as much as I, I commend it...

Comments

[evil-macaroni.livejournal.com]

I had read that but it still made my sides hurt from laughing!

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

+1

Will read it to my kids, too.

[dlevey.livejournal.com]

That is my life with dog(s). Especially since, as I write, our remaining quadruped is completely off food for a few days while she recovers (hopefully) from pancreatitis. Which means that she's trying to eat *anything*. Specs of dust. Moths. Stray children. TV images. *Anything*.

I treasure that one.

[andrea habura (from livejournal.com)]

It's right up there with Dogs in Elk.

Re: I treasure that one.

[keshwyn]

Yes. (You beat me to it. :)

[tashabear.livejournal.com]

I was going through my LJ memories, trying to find this one piece about a cat V. a Roomba vacuum cleaner, which I couldn't find and which may or may not have been on LJ anyway, when I found a few gems for you:

One hundred surreal things that have happened to me (she's not kidding)

Funny and a little poignant: The Creative Process, or, How To Write A Novel

[indigoserenity.livejournal.com]

Awesome. Brought tears to my eyes. That was my life growing up with our golden retriever. If you add in an occasional roll in raccoon poo or dead animal.

[kls-eloise.livejournal.com]

How DID you miss that?

When I was introduced to it, I sent it to a couple of people in the office. I could tell when they clicked the link by the sudden uncontrolled (and immediately smothered) whoop of laughter. I could also tell when *they* forwarded it to other people in the office I hadn't included. I tracked it up and down pretty much the entire legal department that afternoon.