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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIs my sense of humor too weird
Or am I too old?
A Facebook friend posted a link to a story about an illegal dumping of a garden gnome.
I asked if Arlo Guthrie was going to write a song about it.
No one understood, I guess I have reached old and too weird.
LoisB
(7,206 posts)Ptah
(33,032 posts)SalamanderSleeps
(584 posts)unweird
(2,539 posts)RussellCattle
(1,535 posts)Alice's Restaurant is such fun!
unweird
(2,539 posts)Behold the majesty and enjoy the ride.
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)Still, you can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant, excepting Alice.
moniss
(4,254 posts)Dem2theMax
(9,651 posts)I think I'm living proof.
Layzeebeaver
(1,624 posts)finding the absurd and pointing it out to folks who have no clue is one of my favourite things to do.
moniss
(4,254 posts)is approaching total strangers with a half crazed look in your eye and a bit of a smile and hitting them with an opening like "Hey, did anybody ever show you how we used to (insert the subject of your choice)?" The look on their face of apprehension approaching fear as you come closer and begin is priceless!!
GiqueCee
(631 posts)... and maybe even weirder.
Lotta people don't know that all the characters in "Alice's Restaurant" were real folks. I used to live in Western Massachusetts near Stockbridge and had met Alice and Ray Brock, though I didn't know them well. I was just a friend of a friend, so to speak. I met Officer later Chief Obanheim once, socially, thank goodness. He wasn't an especially pleasant fellow, though he is said to have mellowed somewhat after going into business with Alice in her Tanglewood restaurant. Never did get to meet Arlo, though.
Fun reminder. Thanks.
MOMFUDSKI
(5,556 posts)hysterically funny! Thanks
MOMFUDSKI
(5,556 posts)hysterically funny! Thanks
Conjuay
(1,392 posts)We had a computer based assignment system.
Every hour and a half you would go to the computer and get reassigned.
Inevitably, some one would ask me,
"Wadcha get?"
AND I ALWAYS answered,
"I didn't git nothin,
I had to pay fifty dollars and pick up the garbage!"
They didn't move away from me on the bench-
They just stared.