"Life is lived forward, but understood backward. It is not until we are down the road and we stand on the mountain looking back through the valley that we can appreciate the terrain God has allowed us to scale.” Jill Savage

Friday, August 06, 2010

Fun Friday with a little help from my friends . . .



. . . the reason I say with a little help from my friends is - that my friends send me funny articles all the time - for me to use - so this is a group effort.

EVERYONE NEEDS TO LAUGH - IT'S MEDICINE FOR THE SOUL!



This should be sent only to those whose level of maturity qualifies them to relate to it...

1978: Long hair
2008: Longing for hair

1978: KEG
2008: EKG

1978 : Acid rock
2008: Acid reflux

1978: Moving to California because it's cool
2008: Moving to Arizona because it's warm

1978: Trying to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor
2008: Trying NOT to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor

1978: Seeds and stems
2008: Roughage

1978: Hoping for a BMW
2008: Hoping for a BM

1978: Going to a new, hip joint
2008: Receiving a new hip joint

1978: Rolling Stones
2008: Kidney Stones

1978: Screw the system
2008: Upgrade the system

1978: Disco
2008: Costco

1978: Parents begging you to get your hair cut
2008: Children begging you to get their heads shaved

1978: Passing the drivers' test
2008: Passing the vision test

1978: Whatever
2008: Depends

Just in case you weren't feeling too old today, this will certainly change things. Each year the staff at Beloit College in Wisconsin puts together a list to try to give the faculty a sense of the mindset of this year's incoming freshmen. Here's this year's list:

The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1990.

They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.

Their lifetime has always included AIDS.

Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic.

The CD was introduced the year before they were born.

They have always had an answering machine.

They have always had cable.

They cannot fathom not having a remote control.

Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.

Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.

They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.

They can't imagine what hard contact lenses are.

They don't know who Mork was or where he was from.

They never heard: "Where's the Beef?", "I'd walk a mile for a Camel", or "de plane, Boss, de plane.."

They do not care who shot J. R. and have no idea who J. R. even is.

McDonald's never came in Styrofoam containers.

They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.
So how old do you feel?



Why did the dog ran away?



(this is from my 'girlfriend' Katie at Katie's Journal . . . )



A man was driving down the road and ran out of gas. Just at that moment, a bee flew in his window.

The bee said, 'What seems to be the problem?'

'I'm out of gas,' the man replied.

The bee told the man to wait right there and flew away. Minutes later, the man watched as an entire swarm of bees flew to his car and into his gas tank. After a few minutes, the bees flew out.

'Try it now,' said one bee.

The man turned the ignition key and the car started right up. 'Wow!' the man exclaimed, 'what did you put in my gas tank'?

The bee answered,"beepee" BP - get it?

Jerry As The Cracker Crumbles




An elderly gentleman....
Had serious hearing problems for a number of years.. He went to the doctor and the doctor was able to have him fitted for a set of hearing aids that allowed the gentleman to hear 100% The elderly gentleman went back in a month to the doctor and the doctor said, 'Your hearing is perfect... Your family must be really pleased that you can hear again.'
The gentleman replied, 'Oh, I haven't told my family yet.
I just sit around and listen to the conversations. I've changed my will three times!'



And the best for last and if you don't look at you - you'll miss that Towanda feeling I've been describing!





Happy Birthday and isn't this a coincidence - Lucille Ball - one of the biggest comdedians ever!

Ball was born to Henry Durrell Ball (September 16, 1886 – February 19, 1915) and Desiree "DeeDee" Evelyn Hunt (September 21, 1892 – July 20, 1977) in Jamestown, New York. Although Lucy was born in Jamestown, New York, she told many people that she was born in Butte, Montana. At age 3, her family moved to Anaconda, Montana and then to Wyandotte, Michigan. Her family was Baptist; her father was of Scottish descent, and his mother was Mary Ball. Her mother was of French, Irish and English descent. Her genealogy can be traced back to the earliest settlers in the colonies.

Her father, a telephone lineman for Anaconda Copper, was frequently transferred because of his occupation, and within three years of her birth, Lucille had moved many times, from Jamestown to Anaconda, and then to Trenton. While DeeDee Ball was pregnant with her second child, Frederick, Henry Ball contracted typhoid fever and died in February 1915.

After her father died, Ball and her brother Fred were raised by her mother and grandparents in Celoron, New York a village just west of Jamestown. Her grandfather, Fred Hunt, was an eccentric who also enjoyed the theater. He frequently took the family to vaudeville shows and encouraged young Lucy to take part in both her own and school plays.

In 1927, Ball dated a gangster's son by the name of Johnny DeVita. Because of this relationship, her mother decided to ship Ball off to the John Murray Anderson School for the Dramatic Arts in New York City. There, Ball attended with fellow actress Bette Davis. Ball went home a few weeks later when drama coaches told her that she "had no future at all as a performer".

Ball was determined to prove her teachers wrong, and returned to New York City in 1929. She landed work as a fashion model. Her career was thriving when she became ill with rheumatoid arthritis and was unable to work for two years. She moved to New York City once again in 1932 to resume her pursuit of a career as an actress, and had some success as a fashion model for designer Hattie Carnegie and as the Chesterfield cigarette girl. She began on Broadway as Dianne Belmont. She was hired—but then quickly fired—by theatre impresario Earl Carroll from his Vanities, and by Florenz Ziegfeld from a touring company of Rio Rita

She was let go from the Shubert brothers production of Stepping Stones. After an uncredited stint as one of the Goldwyn Girls in Roman Scandals (1933) she permanently moved to Hollywood to appear in films. She appeared in many small movie roles in the 1930s as a contract player for RKO Radio Pictures, including movies with the Three Stooges (Three Little Pigskins, 1934) and the Marx Brothers (Room Service, 1938). She can also be seen as one of the featured models in the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film Roberta (1935) and briefly as the flower girl in Top Hat (1935), as well as a brief supporting role at the beginning of Follow the Fleet (1936)another Astaire-Rogers film. Ginger Rogers was a distant cousin of Ball's on her mother's side of the family. She and Rogers played aspiring actresses in the hit film Stage Door (1937) co-starring Katharine Hepburn.

In 1936 she also landed the role she hoped would lead her to Broadway, in the Bartlett Cormack play Hey Diddle Diddle, a comedy whose setting was a duplex apartment in Hollywood. The play premiered in Princeton, New Jersey on January 21, 1937 with Ball playing the part of Julie Tucker, "one of three roommates coping with neurotic directors, confused executives, and grasping stars who interfere with the girls' ability to get ahead." The play received good reviews, but there were problems, chiefly with its star, Conway Tearle, who was in poor health. Cormack wanted to replace him, but the producer, Anne Nichols, said the fault lay with the character and insisted that the part needed to be reshaped and rewritten. The two were unable to agree on a solution. The play was scheduled to open on Broadway at the Vanderbilt Theatre, but closed after one week in Washington, D.C. when Tearle suddenly became gravely ill. Ball was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the 1940s, but she never achieved major stardom from her appearance in those films.

From the trailer for Stage Door (1937)She was known in many Hollywood circles as "Queen of the B's"—a title previously held by Fay Wray—starring in a number of B-movies, such as 1939's Five Came Back. Like many budding starlets Ball picked up radio work to earn side income as well as gain exposure. In 1937 she appeared as a regular on The Phil Baker Show. When that completed its run in 1938, Ball joined the cast of The Wonder Show, starring future Wizard of Oz tin man Jack Haley. It was here that she began her fifty year professional relationship with Gale Gordon, who served as the show's announcer. The Wonder Show only lasted one season, with the final episode airing on April 7, 1939.

In 1940, Ball met Cuban-born bandleader Desi Arnaz while filming the film version of the Rodgers and Hart stage hit Too Many Girls. Ball and Arnaz connected immediately and eloped the same year. Arnaz was drafted to the United States Army in 1942. He ended up being classified for limited service due to a knee injury. As a result, Arnaz stayed in Los Angeles, organizing and performing USO shows for wounded GIs being brought back from the Pacific. That same year, Ball appeared opposite Henry Fonda in The Big Street, in which she plays a paralyzed nightclub singer and Fonda portrays a busboy who idolizes her.

Ball filed for a divorce in 1944. Shortly after Ball obtained an interlocutory, however, she reconciled with Arnaz. Ball and Arnaz were only six years apart in age but apparently believed that it was less socially acceptable for an older woman to marry a younger man, and hence split the difference in their ages, both claiming a 1914 birth date until this was disproved.

She never gave up and she did prove them wrong!

17 comments:

Melanie said...

What a great post!! I was laughing all the way through it.
I don't remember much about 1978. I was in kindergarten.
The video with the women fighting was so funny.
I love to watch I Love Lucy. She was such a funny lady. :)

Jane said...

Great jokes! I always look forward to what the incoming class of Freshman remembers or doesn't, as the case may be. I remember all of those things! I guess that dates me!

Jane

Nancy's Notes said...

Always love dropping in for a great dose of happy!!

Have a great weekend!

Nancy

Terra said...

Thanks for the giggles. Why did the dog run away, that cat is humungous! My own cats would run too.

ClassyChassy said...

Loved your Birthday Girl story - never give up.

Katie said...

That is quite a cat, isn't it? :)

Katie ♥

Katie said...

And that car video is HILARIOUS!!!!!!!

Together We Save said...

Oh my... yes I feel a little older now! ...And I just have to say, that cat is huge!

Debbie said...

HAHAHAHA at the "war is not the answer" bumper sticker in the video. Such a funny detail.

I laughed all the way through your post today. Such a fun way to end a very busy Friday.

And Happy Birthday to Lucy, the FUNNIEST thing to ever come out of Hollywood, IMO.

Great post.
Thanks.

Mevely317 said...

Just what I needed this evening; can you hear me cackling over here in Phoenix?
Goodness, my own hubby is considering the purchase of a hearing aid -- hope he doesn't see this - LOL!

^..^Corgidogmama said...

Always fun in here on Friday.
Love your header line about the flat squirrels, that is SO true!
Making a decision, for me, has always been very hard...but then, I'm Libra...and sad to say, it's one of our traits!
Hope all is well. 2010 has been a good year for traveling for you all. Lots of family time, and family memories you've made.
No matter what...you'll have those forever!

Buttercup said...

Sandie, you really gave lots to laugh about. Acid rock/acid reflux...I think you got my life in a nutshell. :)

Susan said...
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Susan said...

Sorry, there was a typo in that last post so I deleted it and started over.

ha ha ha ha ha That was funny, Sandie. At first I thought the car video was an actual happening. Glad it wasn't! The cat is the biggest babe I've ever seen in my LIFE. She'd eat Honey Cat in one gulp. But maybe not. Honey beats up all the neighborhood dogs, even at age 15.But I wouldn't want to find out whether she'd win over the big babe. Better left unknown. Susan

Dogmom Diva said...

Sandie, you totally outdid yourself my friend..great jokes and I love Lucy..so nice to read about her and her life. A light was permanently dimmed when she passed away.

Thanks for stopping by to see my roosters!

Hugs
Barb

Jennifer Oberth said...

I'm not old enough to appreciate this list quite yet but it's still pretty funny.

One of these lists one day will resonate with me - soon enough!!

Linda @ A La Carte said...

Oh so very funny Sandie! Love it and hey Lucille Ball was an amazing lady!