By Tim Thatcher
When I sit around all summer on the Internet, waiting for college to start again, I get really, really, really bored. When I get bored, my brain gets overactive and I have to do something that eats up some time. Usually, video games do the trick. Sometimes I need something more. Sometimes I need to do an experiment. I like experiments that let me see how people think and react to certain situations, so this time I decided that I would see if I could bring humor to the humorless with funny t-shirts.
My Nanna was the sourest person I have ever met. I think that during the Great Depression, she might have had to sell her sense of humor to buy her kids dinner one night, or something. The fact is, that I have never seen this woman even smile. I know she had hard times growing up and it wasn't until dad bought her a condo that she was ever really financially stable. Whatever her problem, funny t-shirts were about to make this woman smile.
My Nanna was the sourest person I have ever met. I think that during the Great Depression, she might have had to sell her sense of humor to buy her kids dinner one night, or something. The fact is, that I have never seen this woman even smile. I know she had hard times growing up and it wasn't until dad bought her a condo that she was ever really financially stable. Whatever her problem, funny t-shirts were about to make this woman smile.
I will only consider the first of my two subjects as a partial victory, because I never actually heard my granny laugh. I knew that older folks like physical comedy, so I wore a shirt with the Three Stooges hitting each other with pies on it. Not the most complicated of funny t-shirts, but it's all I had to work with. When I told my Nanna to look at my shirt, she just made this weird sound in the back of her throat and wheeled away in her scooter. I'm not sure if that was a laugh, or not. That's why it was a partial victory. Me: 1, Great Depression: 0.
My next victim was a hard choice. I was either going to go after a hard-line Republican gun owner, or a local preacher who I had heard secretly supports the Westboro Baptist Church. Since I didn't want to risk getting burned at a stake, I decided to go after the Republican. I chose very carefully from several online sources, but finally settled on some funny t-shirts that I thought might do the trick.
I would say that this guy I planned on meeting hates me because I dated his daughter. I would say that, except that other guys have dated his daughter and not had to endure hateful, half-threats and fear tactics taught by the world's most aggressive military. I was already standing at the foot of his steps when I started thinking about how stupid this whole thing was and that funny t-shirts couldn't protect me from the pain this man was about to inflict on me.
I now know that funny t-shirts have the ability to make anyone laugh. I know this because I knocked on the door, and this gruff monster of a former marine opened it and politely asked, "What the hell
My next victim was a hard choice. I was either going to go after a hard-line Republican gun owner, or a local preacher who I had heard secretly supports the Westboro Baptist Church. Since I didn't want to risk getting burned at a stake, I decided to go after the Republican. I chose very carefully from several online sources, but finally settled on some funny t-shirts that I thought might do the trick.
I would say that this guy I planned on meeting hates me because I dated his daughter. I would say that, except that other guys have dated his daughter and not had to endure hateful, half-threats and fear tactics taught by the world's most aggressive military. I was already standing at the foot of his steps when I started thinking about how stupid this whole thing was and that funny t-shirts couldn't protect me from the pain this man was about to inflict on me.
I now know that funny t-shirts have the ability to make anyone laugh. I know this because I knocked on the door, and this gruff monster of a former marine opened it and politely asked, "What the hell
My next victim was a hard choice. I was either going to go after a hard-line Republican gun owner, or a local preacher who I had heard secretly supports the Westboro Baptist Church. Since I didn't want to risk getting burned at a stake, I decided to go after the Republican. I chose very carefully from several online sources, but finally settled on some funny t-shirts that I thought might do the trick.
I would say that this guy I planned on meeting hates me because I dated his daughter. I would say that, except that other guys have dated his daughter and not had to endure hateful, half-threats and fear tactics taught by the world's most aggressive military. I was already standing at the foot of his steps when I started thinking about how stupid this whole thing was and that funny t-shirts couldn't protect me from the pain this man was about to inflict on me.
I now know that funny t-shirts have the ability to make anyone laugh. I know this because I knocked on the door, and this gruff monster of a former marine opened it and politely asked, "What the hell do you want?" I asked him to look at my shirt, just as planned. He looked and laughed harder than anyone I have ever seen in my life. Apparently, fart jokes are the best call when cracking hard exteriors.
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I would say that this guy I planned on meeting hates me because I dated his daughter. I would say that, except that other guys have dated his daughter and not had to endure hateful, half-threats and fear tactics taught by the world's most aggressive military. I was already standing at the foot of his steps when I started thinking about how stupid this whole thing was and that funny t-shirts couldn't protect me from the pain this man was about to inflict on me.
I now know that funny t-shirts have the ability to make anyone laugh. I know this because I knocked on the door, and this gruff monster of a former marine opened it and politely asked, "What the hell do you want?" I asked him to look at my shirt, just as planned. He looked and laughed harder than anyone I have ever seen in my life. Apparently, fart jokes are the best call when cracking hard exteriors.
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