07-15-2012, 11:10 PM
Lots of weird shit makes me laugh, but usually it's deliberate or accidental wordplay. For example, tonight while I was driving home there was some forum show on NPR talking about a local theater program for teens. They were talking the usual bla bla bla about support for the arts and the benefits of theater, and I was two seconds from turning the dial when the girl in charge says what they REALLY need is more Friendly Adult Presences, "Or FAPS, as we like to call them."
They proceeded to talk about FAPS for the next ten minutes: how hard it was to get FAPS at the theater, how much the kids would benefit from a lot more FAPS, how often FAPS were overlooked as a key part of a successful production. Even the host was getting in on it, asking what was the best way to get more FAPS, what effect FAPS had on student morale...
I swear to god, by the time I got home I was laughing so hard I could barely breathe. I nearly pissed myself. I haven't laughed so hard since I read the Batman comic with all the references to Joker's biggest boner. So fucking juvenile, but the funniest thing I've heard in a while, and funniest thing NPR has EVER had.
They proceeded to talk about FAPS for the next ten minutes: how hard it was to get FAPS at the theater, how much the kids would benefit from a lot more FAPS, how often FAPS were overlooked as a key part of a successful production. Even the host was getting in on it, asking what was the best way to get more FAPS, what effect FAPS had on student morale...
I swear to god, by the time I got home I was laughing so hard I could barely breathe. I nearly pissed myself. I haven't laughed so hard since I read the Batman comic with all the references to Joker's biggest boner. So fucking juvenile, but the funniest thing I've heard in a while, and funniest thing NPR has EVER had.