Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: Describe Your Sense of Humour

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Image of something being downloaded. The text reads “downloading future. Please wait” and there is a loading image above the cancel bar. I started working on this back in March and have been slowly adding to it as I find more examples of things that tickle my funny bone. Some posts work better if they’re allowed to percolate for a long time.

My sense of humour is gentle and kind but honest.

Everyone should be laughing and feeling happy by the time the punchline is revealed.

 

I love these types of humour:

  • stories or videos about pets or people doing amusing things like accidentally scaring themselves
  • jokes that allow people to poke gentle fun at themselves if they wish to
  • puns and wordplay
  • wholesome memes
  • anything that sidesteps the audience’s expectations of what will happen next and gives us something clever in exchange.

 

Here are some examples of things that have made me smile or laugh recently:

 

One day, a police officer pulls a car over and sees the backseat is full of penguins. The officer tells the driver, “You can’t be doing this, you need to take these penguins to the zoo!”

The next day, the police officer pulls the same car over again, and says, “Hey! I told you to take these penguins to the zoo!” The driver says, “I did, and today I’m taking them to the movies!”

 

 

Beagle Puppy Learns How to Go Down Stairs  (1 minute, 33 seconds long)

Adorableness is always in style. This dog has been a YouTube star for years.

 

 

Q. Why are frogs so happy?

A. They eat whatever bugs them.

 

 

First Day of Rural Medicine (2 minutes, 15 seconds long)

This is a skit about the challenges of providing medical care to a culture that tries to tough everything out. I grew up around so many farmers and other rural folks who avoid modern medical care unless there’s a true emergency, and even then they won’t go in very promptly. For example, one of my relatives had a heart attack in the middle of the night years ago, took some antacids, and then casually strolled into their family doctor’s office the next morning. Their family doctor examined them and immediately called for an ambulance. After emergency surgery for a quadruple bypass, my relative is doing well. Their family doctor might need a hug, though.

 

 

Q: What would bears be without the letter B?

A: Ears.

 

 

Screenshot of a message on a social media site (possibly tumblr?) from user Roxy Horror whose username is roxiqt. The message says: “I went to the ER for a migraine once. The nurse asked me what I took for it. I said, ‘a litre of chocolate milk.’ She paused and said, ‘odd…but only something a migraine sufferer would try’ as if I correctly answered her riddle and she was granting me passage to the land of pain relief.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This one is funny and relatable to me. I have tried the chocolate milk – well, actually mine was chocolate almond milk – trick when I was desperate for relief. It did not work in any way, but it was delicious. Now I have more effective prescription medication to take when I feel a migraine coming on, so I have been granted passage to the land of pain relief, too, assuming my meds work.

 

 

Photo of a cat sitting on a wooden swing outside. The cat is wearing an orange scarf and a blue sweater. There are colourful autumn leaves scattered about and some trees in the background that look like their leaves are turning colours, too. Humorously enough, the text on this image reads “Friends: it’s still 85 degrees out. Me: …..” 85 Fahrenheit is about 29 Celsius. So even when it’s still warm out, both this can and I yearn for autumn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Autumn is so much nicer than summer to me!

 

Animals Reacting to Their Reflections  (2 minutes, 32 seconds long)

I thought this was funny and educational. Some animals seem to have much more self-awareness than others do.

 

Closeup photo of the head of a peaceful capybara. Image on text reads: “Humans and capybaras are evolutionarily closely related. You are genetically as cute as this capybara.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(I don’t know that we’re actually that closely related to capybaras….but this meme made me smile. I hope you all smiled, too.)

 

This is a still from the 2001 film Shrek. In it Donkey (the sometimes overly cheerful grey donkey in it) is walking in a meadow looking pleased with himself. There is a dark forest behind him and a boulder in front of him. The text reads, “me going outside to improve my mental health.” At the bottom of the image, the donkey’s line of dialogue is on the screen and reads “I like that boulder. That’s a nice boulder.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Walking is not a cure-all, but it sure does help distract me when I’m worried about something. Exercise is a great form of stress relief.

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10 Responses to Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: Describe Your Sense of Humour

  1. I can totally relate to everything in your post, Lydia. And a kind and honest sense of humour is the best kind, I think.

  2. Those were fun! I like the one about the penguins, sort of similar to one I put in my post this morning, too. And aw… I love capybaras!

    My post

  3. The migraine thing is interesting! One of my coworkers has to avoid nuts/legumes/etc & chocolate because they GIVE her migraines.

    Big fan of the short but silly jokes — “What do you call an 800 lb gorilla?” / “Anything he wants”, that sort of thing.

    • Thanks. Yeah, those are common triggers! I have to watch my caffeine intake because it can be a trigger for me. A little bit of chocolate or chocolate syrup is okay, though.

      Short but silly jokes are the best.

  4. I’ve always enjoyed your sense of humor, and this was a lovely selection of examples.

  5. Animals are fun to laugh at. Their behavior can be funny sometimes.

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