01-12-2010
( Reply#: 4678 ) |
S C Jones |
Hey EHB,
One thing I enjoy with laughter is the dog videos on Yahoo---I just read an article that states that dogs reach the equivalent intelligence of a 2 year old. One thing I saw last year with two dogs I was feeding for a friend: Frieda (an incredibly bright mutt) was on the couch with her head where I could pet her and Barney (a bit older and much more laid back mutt) was lying on the floor. He kept looking up at me. After awhile he got up and went to the door as though he wanted to go out. I got up and Frieda ran to the door before I got there, whereupon (and ancient connecter of storytelling) Barney turned and loped over to the couch and hopped up where I had been sitting---I would swear he was grinning. |
01-12-2010
( Reply#: 4680 ) |
Tom J |
At work one day I was checking voice messages, and a co-worked walked into my office. I was halfway listening to my messages and halfway talking to my visitor. During the process I forgot that I was checking messages and thought that I was actually in a live phone conversation; I tried to talk to the person who had left the message. [:I] |
01-13-2010
( Reply#: 4690 ) |
Roger D |
Hey Tom J that talking to yourself just goes with age. As my dad always said it doesn't get any better.
Roger D. |
01-13-2010
( Reply#: 4691 ) |
Roger D |
If you want funny, but clean (and who doesn't) you can't beat Red Skelton, Bill Cosby and Jackie Gleason. Gleason would get carried away at times but not to bad.
Roger D. |
01-13-2010
( Reply#: 4692 ) |
Roger D |
I am sure we could all write volumes on funny things that have happened to us and family. My wife is the serious one in the family but she does come up with some great one liners, such as. Our son had back surgery in Nov. Then in Dec. he had to have shoulder surgery due to a stsph infection. When we saw him in the hospital in Nashville on Jan. 3rd the wife ask him what the surgery of the month was. He just growled. Everbody else fell out laughing.
As you know the stories about children and pets never end.
Roger D. |
01-13-2010
( Reply#: 4701 ) |
Bill Bucko |
An incident with the girl who shortly thereafter became my first girlfriend, at Morton High School ...
The two of us were thrown together, because we were the only two A students in a summer school English class of flunkies. (We were both mid-termers who planned to graduate in 3 1/2 years.)
One day, after talking with each other out in the hall, the bell rang to signal that the break was over and it was time to go back in.
"Well, back to the old wobble-wobble," she said.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"One leg is shorter than the other."
I bent my head to gaze quizzically at her legs.
"On my DESK, stupid!!!" she cried.
For the rest of the period, whenever our glances met, we would each dissolve into helpless laughter, hiding her heads on our desks.
Bill
Warren G. Harding Class of '63 |
01-14-2010
( Reply#: 4702 ) |
BobK |
"we were the only two A students in a summer school English class of flunkies."
Hey, you're describing me! Different school, different year(s). |
01-14-2010
( Reply#: 4705 ) |
duane |
I had a somewhat similar experience at Bishop Noll.
During my senior year, I had signed up for Physics (with teacher Carmen Domingo!). Then I realized that I didn't need it for college prep and wanted to take something easier. So I took Business Law/Business Management instead. This class had most of the "burnies" or burn-outs in it. The course was taught by Coach Hank Zawada,(affectionately known as Coach Z, who as far as I know was NEVER the head coach of anything, but forever the assistant coach of nearly every sport.
The class was a hoot. People were always goofing off. We would sing lowly (and then with increasing volume) the Iron Man song, but with changed lyrics "Has Z lost his mind? Can he Z or is Z blind." When he would catch on, he'd grab someone and threaten to send them to the principle's office. Everyone in the class would respond "But Coach Z, it's his/her birthday today and then we'd all start singing happy birthday (of course it wasn't really their birthday). Coach Z would give in and say "Well, we can't send him to the principle on his birthday, can we?"
We did and said a lot of other things too, some pretty rude and can't be printed here. Anyway in my senior year, it was a blast to see how much of the school really enjoyed themselves, and of course learned almost nothing! |
01-14-2010
( Reply#: 4708 ) |
Joel357 |
What was funny was when I was at Munster High there was this guy who used to fake epileptic seizures when there was a substitue teacher. The sub would get so rattled by the experience she would run down to the nurses office and drag the nurse back. By the time they would show up, he was back in his seat like nothing happened. Now I know it was pretty juvenile but back then it was hilarious. I guess you had to be there.
Joel
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02-17-2010
( Reply#: 4998 ) |
HassoBenSoba |
Hoping to revive the hilarity during the current lull on Sheptalk, I am contributing the following unique story and photo.
Many of you know that Bob Newhart got his start in Chicago. Among his friends there were fellow D.J.s Dan Sorkin and his on-air pal, Mike Rapchak (my dad). Sorkin and my dad were both instrumental in getting Newhart's career off the ground.
By 1962, Newhart already had a weekly comedy/variety show on NBC; his on-air announcer was his Chicago buddy Dan Sorkin, who would fly out to L.A. once a week to tape the show. The Newhart show's bandleader was the legendary Paul Weston (also a friend of my dad's). So in June of '62, Newhart decides to suprise Paul Weston by presenting him with an award during the live show. Newhart and Sorkin decided that the ideal person to actually present the award on TV would be the "Dean of the Big Bands" himself, Mike Rapchak. So they flew my dad out to L.A. to appear on the show. I clearly remember our family gathering around the TV waiting for the big moment when my dad appeared, which he did. Everything went according to plan.
However, a few days after the show, Newhart realized that they forgot to commemorate the big event with some photos. So the next week when Sorkin was in L.A., they got him, Newhart and Weston (complete with his trophy) to assemble in a studio for the official commemorative photos. Trouble was that "Big Mike" Rapchak was back in Chicago! So what did they do, you ask? Well...check out the photo below, and Sorkin's original 1962 inscriptions: one of them is outrageously self-deprecating, but the other alludes to the deep, dark secret of the picture.
[IMG]http://i989.photobucket.com/albums/af12/HassoBenSoba/NewhartShow0001.jpg[/IMG]
L to R: Bob Newhart, Paul Weston, Mike Rapchak, Dan Sorkin
Yep, my dad's image is, in fact, a cut-out! The three guys in L.A. positioned themselves to leave a blank space for my dad, who had himself photographed back in Chicago. Some guy then cut out my dad's image by hand and glued it onto the other pic of the three dudes in L.A. This cut-and-paste catastrophe has provided many a laugh throughout the years in our house; if you look closely, you can see the amateurish chop-job mostly around my dad's elbow and shoes. Somewhere I have another photo from this session where the cut-out is so obvious that it makes you cringe---but I can't locate it at the moment. Rather than spend more time looking for it, I wanted to post this one now in hopes of providing some laughs with this special, one-of-a-kind material that is featured ONLY ON SHEPTALK--as opposed to any competing web-site. |
02-17-2010
( Reply#: 5000 ) |
Tom J |
Cool story, Larry! Thanks for sharing those memories. Maybe that will bring Sheptalk back to life.
It's strange that no one thought about getting some pictures when the presentation was actually made.
Tom |
04-13-2010
( Reply#: 5333 ) |
HassoBenSoba |
Hey, look what I just found: It's an actual photo that was snapped off of a TV screen in June of '62 when my dad was on the Bob Newhart show in Hollywood to present the great bandleader Paul Weston with an award (see the insane story and photo above). L to R - Weston, Newhart, Rapchak.
[IMG]http://i989.photobucket.com/albums/af12/HassoBenSoba/NewhartTV0001.jpg[/IMG] |
04-13-2010
( Reply#: 5336 ) |
tom w |
Wow Larry. What an unbelievable bank of memories you have to draw on!
You are blessed to have had such a diversified and yet close knit family. Keep em coming kiddo. Tom W |
