I wish to report the strange disappearance of...

[Dingfod]

... my sense of humor... at least a great deal of it. Sorry, but results of the most recent election are responsible for it. I would put this in Polyticks and Low, but I'm sick of those subjects right now. I'm not depressed, I'm angry. I'll probaby get over it, but right now, if I don't lay off Polyticks and Low, it'll cause my ultimate destruction. No, this is more of a psycho-social issue, that I need to work out for myself if I can. I've found my few remaining interests to be quite limiting both here and elsewhere, as I'm bereft of subject matter that I care about aside from Tennessee sour mash and cute fluffy kittens.

[Socratoad]

Tennessee sour mash and cute fluffy kittens are good. If your gonna try and pick an intensive hyperbolic discussion with me on that one you'll have to be damned creative. :whup: :yup:

[Dingfod]

It's really really fun to get cute fluffy kittens completely drunk on Tennessee sour mash, they stagger around looking all cute and shit. They try to lick their paws but miss. It's so funny.

[viscousmemories]

It's really really fun to get cute fluffy kittens completely drunk on Tennessee sour mash, they stagger around looking all cute and shit. They try to lick their paws but miss. It's so funny.
:roflmao:

[Socratoad]

It's really really fun to get cute fluffy kittens completely drunk on Tennessee sour mash, they stagger around looking all cute and shit. They try to lick their paws but miss. It's so funny.


Psst, don't look now but the kittens are laughing at you :yup:

But that aint bad ..... a mutual laughfest

[Bluenose]

my new desktop image... which i think I found over on HeHa...
[An adaptation of the I voted stick on, for our friends "elsewhere".]

[Dingfod]

I'm using that one. I've stuck one on my locker already. Fragnabbit! Thanks a mellon!

Oh, by the way, carry on without me. I know you will.

[Bluenose]

Oh, by the way, carry on without me. I know you will.

WAIT a minute... IF you mean you are not going to post anymore, DONT leave us before you hit the 1000 post level :popcorn: and miss out on all the great stuff the IPU showers on the self elect.

[Farren]

Oh, by the way, carry on without me. I know you will.

WAIT a minute... IF you mean you are not going to post anymore, DONT leave us before you hit the 1000 post level :popcorn: and miss out on all the great stuff the IPU showers on the self elect.

Warren, if you leave I'll kill you you sonofabitch. I know the above is somehow induced by your recent deppresion but godammit it makes me sore that you don't realise how much many of us enjoy your online company. Bastard

[Bluenose]

FARREN...
You edit that post... NOW

[Petra]

You ain't goin' nowhere, cowboy.

:whup:

[Dingfod]

Whoa there Nervous Nellies, whoaaaa!

I'm not going anywhere. I meant only I wasn't really able to find anything going on here that interested me at the moment. I'm avoiding Polyticks and Low like ebola. All that cartoon shit and best or worst scifi shit has run its course as far as my interest goes. I really intended that if in the unlikely event nobody noticed I wasn't participating as much as I had been, that I'd be around, just not there. Damn, I'm not able to communicate what I'm feeling right now. But, it's not depression at all.

[Dingfod]

Oh, by the way, carry on without me. I know you will.

WAIT a minute... IF you mean you are not going to post anymore, DONT leave us before you hit the 1000 post level :popcorn: and miss out on all the great stuff the IPU showers on the self elect.Oooh, showers of pinkness. Oooh!!!

[Dingfod]

Warren, if you leave I'll kill you you sonofabitch. I know the above is somehow induced by your recent deppresion but godammit it makes me sore that you don't realise how much many of us enjoy your online company. BastardMy mother once told me, in regards to some sort of dangerous activity I was engaged in, "If you get killed doing that, I'm going to kill you ... again. Then I'm going to dig you up and kill you again."

[Dingfod]

FARREN...
You edit that post... NOWToo late! I'm already dead. Check my profile at IIDB. (http://www.iidb.org/vbb/member.php?u=12275)

[Dingfod]

You ain't goin' nowhere, cowboy.

:whup:You talking to me? [/Travis Bickle]

[Ex-zombie]

You can run but you can't hide. I'll find you, drag you to your computer, and make you post. I swear to IPU I will.

[Ex-zombie]

Warren,

The Professional Mouse Mover sounds like one hell of a kick-ass job. So what are the qualifications? How do I apply? What's the pay? Any medical or dental benefits?

[freemonkey]

Warren, this is just for you:

[freemonkey]

And here's another, she such a colander girl, you know.

[Dingfod]

The Professional Mouse Mover sounds like one hell of a kick-ass job. So what are the qualifications? How do I apply? What's the pay? Any medical or dental benefits?Well, first you must master the operation of the little bitty refrigerator dolly. :D


Actually, I have one of those rare jobs, where I don't actually to do much of anything, get to watch cable TV and surf the internet (not the adult sites, dammit), have little or no responsibility for what happens on the seven computer screens that sit in front of me other than to make a phone call now and then.

Plus I get all those entertaining phone calls from people that don't know how to dial a phone when calling the NFL Shop. No, I don't have any sweatshirts left. I've thought about taking their credit card information and ordering a bunch of the wrong team's merchandise in completely wrong sizes, having the NFL shop send it to their address. After that, they can battle it out.

What are the qualifications? Well, it helps to not care what you do for a living. I sometimes refer to myself as a corporate prostitute, I'm selling my social life, my sanity, and my long term health for forty pieces of silver and a crappy $30 gold electroplate watch with a dead battery. But, hey, I'll also be able to retire poor due to Enron-like shennanigans, if I live long enough to reap those huge Social Security payments.

How do you apply? Go to your local gas utility or a natural gas pipeline company near you, put in an application for janitor or ditchdigger, then work your way up the corporate ladder, taking that odd detour here and there required of all employees who do not have a degree or the ambition to scratch and claw their way to the top, walking all over other people in the process, or being willing to take a huge cut in pay in order boss other people around. Do that plus move about 20 times over 20 years or so and you too could end up being a Professional Mouse Mover making obscene amounts of money for a job with little job satisfaction or personal reward (other than the money, of course).

[Dingfod]

Warren, this is just for you:Awww. I'm going to put that one on my locker door. :yup:

[Dingfod]

And here's another, she such a colander girl, you know.No, kitty, no. Get in the pot.

[Socratoad]

My mother once told me, in regards to some sort of dangerous activity I was engaged in, "If you get killed doing that, I'm going to kill you ... again. Then I'm going to dig you up and kill you again."

Well don't keep me in suspense, did she? :chin:

[Dingfod]

Well...? I'm not sure. If so, it explains a lot about my "life" since then.

[Ex-zombie]

And here's another, she such a colander girl, you know.No, kitty, no. Get in the pot.

Proof that Warren has not lost his sense of humor!

[Socratoad]

What are the qualifications? Well, it helps to not care what you do for a living. I sometimes refer to myself as a corporate prostitute, I'm selling my social life, my sanity, and my long term health for forty pieces of silver and a crappy $30 gold electroplate watch with a dead battery. But, hey, I'll also be able to retire poor due to Enron-like shennanigans, if I live long enough to reap those huge Social Security payments.

How do you apply? Go to your local gas utility or a natural gas pipeline company near you, put in an application for janitor or ditchdigger, then work your way up the corporate ladder, taking that odd detour here and there required of all employees who do not have a degree or the ambition to scratch and claw their way to the top, walking all over other people in the process, or being willing to take a huge cut in pay in order boss other people around. Do that plus move about 20 times over 20 years or so and you too could end up being a Professional Mouse Mover making obscene amounts of money for a job with little job satisfaction or personal reward (other than the money, of course).

Fuck warrenly, you could leave your precious kick-ass job and become the replacement for Rodney Dangerfield :bow: :bow:

Just a wild guess, but I suspect that you're not a Bush supporter :chin:

[Dingfod]

[QUOTE=warrenly]Fuck warrenly, you could leave your precious kick-ass job and become the replacement for Rodney Dangerfield :bow: :bow:Thank you very much. I'll be here all week.

You know, at one point, when I was onstage at an improv comedy club, I gave a fleeting thought to working up a standup routine and giving it a shot. I can always talk about my screwed up life, people always seem to find my slant on it at least slightly amusing. Even a chuckle out of an audience is rewarding as hell.

Just a wild guess, but I suspect that you're not a Bush supporter :chin:Why, whatever would give you that idea? I've turned über-Republican now, Our Glorious Leader has convinced me of the error of my ways. Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated. Just like me. Or else. :whup:

[Dingfod]

And here's another, she such a colander girl, you know.No, kitty, no. Get in the pot.

Proof that Warren has not lost his sense of humor!One one-liner does not a comedian make.

Lost, his humor is. Find it again, he will. Not far away, it is. Glimpses now and then, he's seen.

OK, now for a Garrison Keilor bad joke moment:
What do you call a schitzophrenic that converts to Buddhism?

Two with the universe.

[Socratoad]

You know, at one point, when I was onstage at an improv comedy club, I gave a fleeting thought to working up a standup routine and giving it a shot. I can always talk about my screwed up life, people always seem to find my slant on it at least slightly amusing. Even a chuckle out of an audience is rewarding as hell.


Ya know friend this best comedy has always come out of "screwed up lives" or more succinctly from pain. Witness the abundance of jewish comedians throughout the ages. I have never found anything the least bit humorous coming out of the mouths of those born with the proverbial silver spoon in their mouths. Those that were born on third base and who fool themselves into thinking they hit a home run are simply fucking boring.

If I were to catalogue my own life, especially as a child, it would sound like fiction. Unfortunately any humour on my part usually appears to be little more than sarcasm :yup:

A sometimes lover of mine said to me Terry you are the brightest person I have ever met. I often think you really could have gone far in this world if only you had been born in a wealthy family and was able to receive the best education available.

I was shocked to hear this because the reasoning was just so faulty. If I had been given the advantages that she wished for me I have no idea of just who I might have been. One thing for sure I sure as hell would not be the person she professes to admire.

We are when all is said and done the sum of our experiences, and so to drag out a well-worn cliché ...... when given lemons make lemonade.

You do have that certain quality that makes for a great comedian, even though, or more precisely, because of your pain.

[Dingfod]

Thanks 'toad for the kudos. Positive feedback to me is like gasoline on a fire. I can really get rolling sometimes.

The pain in my life is self-imposed for the most part, a stubborn refusal to change what seriously needs to be changed. In reality, I've led a very charmed life, abuse free, never went hungry (except for that Order of the Arrow initiation thing in Boy Scouts and a weekend survival school one time), no addictions (except for food and Diet Dr Pepper), never unemployed for any length of time (3 days, once), or suffered any serious physical illnesses (if you don't count broken bones and spinal surgery). No one in my immediate family has ever died (except for the stillborn grandbaby, but I never got to know her so I don't feel the loss). So, now I must go flail myself with branches, I haven't suffered enough.

[AspenMama]

:strip: :runaway:
Me streaking through your thread...

[Dingfod]

Hey!!! Get back here!!!

Didn't you offer a spanking or something? I'm a bad boy, I need correction.

[beyelzu]

[QUOTE=warrenly]Fuck warrenly, you could leave your precious kick-ass job and become the replacement for Rodney Dangerfield :bow: :bow:Thank you very much. I'll be here all week.

You know, at one point, when I was onstage at an improv comedy club, I gave a fleeting thought to working up a standup routine and giving it a shot. I can always talk about my screwed up life, people always seem to find my slant on it at least slightly amusing. Even a chuckle out of an audience is rewarding as hell.

Just a wild guess, but I suspect that you're not a Bush supporter :chin:Why, whatever would give you that idea? I've turned über-Republican now, Our Glorious Leader has convinced me of the error of my ways. Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated. Just like me. Or else. :whup:


good idea, now maybe you can avoid those death camps that shrub has lined up for us.

[Dingfod]

That's right. Get it, "right".

But, I just had a flash of horror. What if I have to stand in line to pass the buckets of tar for the tar and feathering of heretics and atheists? It's not like I was actually tossing the hot tar on them, right? Just like it wasn't one guy that worked in the ammunition plant in Nazi Germany, one guy that didn't really agree with the Nazi agenda, but just wanted to get along and stay safe.

[AspenMama]

Hey!!! Get back here!!!

Didn't you offer a spanking or something? I'm a bad boy, I need correction.
:paddle: How's that?
:hugsmile: All better?
If not....:tapbeer:

[Dingfod]

Thanks, 'mama, I needed that. *smooch*

[Dingfod]

It's disappeared again, my sense of humor. Only this time I think it's for real. *sigh*

[livius drusus]

Have you been reading the Politics forum too much again?

:funface:

[Dingfod]

:yup:

[livius drusus]

Remember, you can ignore an entire forum nowadays. Maybe your sense of humor would recover after a little breather.


:jester2:

[Dingfod]

It's not just that. I don't know as I can actually put a finger on the cause of my blasé mood, just things in general. Just looking at this thread depresses me; I was a lot funnier two years ago or so. I can't even hardly believe it was me that wrote some of that.

[inland wave]

I can, lack of SLEEP is a major contributor and graveyards with a quick turnaround, plus not really getting any "free time" to enjoy your days off this past week has defintely put a strain on you. Sorry for that. Get some rest and get rid of the blahs. Start thinking Bergman 650 and smile!!:cool:
You haven't lost your sense of houmor, your just tired.......

[Pinecone]

Don't be depressed! We shall get it back for you! :yup:

We will put it on Americas Most Wanted! We will plaster it accross milk cartons!

When did it go missing?
How old would it look now?
Where was it last seen?
What are some links to it, so cereal crunchers and couch potatoes will recognize it if they pass it on the internet?

[Crumb]

Did you check your other pants?

[TomJoe]

It's not just that. I don't know as I can actually put a finger on the cause of my blasé mood, just things in general. Just looking at this thread depresses me; I was a lot funnier two years ago or so. I can't even hardly believe it was me that wrote some of that.

You just used the word blasé. Something is definitely wrong with you Dingfod. Using french, do you hate America or something?

[Leesifer]

Hey Ding! :unfaces:

Gawd, I sometimes look back on my early posts here - its horrific! Honestly, it's like looking at old photos way back when I was in my teens. :shudder:

[curses]

Gawd,Honestly, it's like looking at old photos way back when I was in my teens. :shudder:I wouldn't wish that on anyone!

[Leesifer]

Hey! :glare: I may post some of them now. That'll learn you!

:cryhome:

[Watser?]

:rughide:

[Dingfod]

I can, lack of SLEEP is a major contributor and graveyards with a quick turnaround, plus not really getting any "free time" to enjoy your days off this past week has defintely put a strain on you. Sorry for that. Get some rest and get rid of the blahs. Start thinking Bergman 650 and smile!!:cool:
You haven't lost your sense of houmor, your just tired.......I shouldn't be tired now, I got 10 hours of sleep . . . just in time for night shifts to be over.

Don't be depressed! We shall get it back for you! :yup:

We will put it on Americas Most Wanted! We will plaster it accross milk cartons!

When did it go missing?Judging from my writings from 2+ years ago, some time ago.
How old would it look now?Like the prepubescent teen that it seems like.
Where was it last seen?I don't remember.
What are some links to it, so cereal crunchers and couch potatoes will recognize it if they pass it on the internet?Fark if I know.

Did you check your other pants?For what, stains?

It's not just that. I don't know as I can actually put a finger on the cause of my blasé mood, just things in general. Just looking at this thread depresses me; I was a lot funnier two years ago or so. I can't even hardly believe it was me that wrote some of that.

You just used the word blasé. Something is definitely wrong with you Dingfod. Using french, do you hate America or something?Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I just typed "now" for that last word "no", twice.

Hey Ding! :unfaces:

Gawd, I sometimes look back on my early posts here - its horrific! Honestly, it's like looking at old photos way back when I was in my teens. :shudder:I like my old posts, and my old photographs better.

Thank you all for your support.

[Dingfod]

Remember, you can ignore an entire forum nowadays.How does one do that, aside from just ignoring it, that is?

[livius drusus]

Click on User Tools - Edit Options and scroll all the way down to the bottom. The last field is "Forums To Exclude From View". It works remarkably well, removing the forum from the index and all its threads from the New Posts, Active Threads, etc. searches.

[Dingfod]

Thanks.

[livius drusus]

Wotcha.

[Watser?]

Click on User Tools - Edit Options and scroll all the way down to the bottom. The last field is "Forums To Exclude From View". It works remarkably well, removing the forum from the index and all its threads from the New Posts, Active Threads, etc. searches.

Butbutbut...

How would you put it back?

[livius drusus]

You go back to the same field, click on Reset Exclusion option and click Save.

[Plant Woman]

I would think today's politics would give a lot of material for humor. Let me prescribe a healthy dose of Jon Stewart (http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/index.jhtml). Get your prescription filled and quickly.

[Dingfod]

I would think today's politics would give a lot of material for humor.It's not just that. It's about lots of things that don't have to do with politics and law. I don't feel depressed, I feel nothing, as I said: blasé (topped with a touch of malaise). Plus, to add to that, Saturday I broke my cellphone that wasn't even a week old, a replacement for one I lost last month. Soy un perdidor.

[Petra]

I've had that feeling of nothingness many times, Dinghai. When there is no joy to be got from that which usually gives you joy; no pain from that which usually causes you pain; just nothing. Even the emptiness of the no joy/no pain thing loses it's ache. It's not a good place to be, it's not a "bad" place to be (in the gut-wrenching, sobbing blues kinda bad place, that is). It's just....nothing.

Yup. I been there. A few times. But it will pass, Dinghai. Ride your motor bike more often. Go for a walk in the wilderness. Take HUGE breaths of fresh air, and admire the birds cavorting and wheeling in the spring air. Those little things are stepping stones, in my experience anyway, for finding life again. And, after life, comes a little more laughter. :)

Good luck. :)

:smile!:

[Pinecone]

From what I understand there are several kinds of depression.

One is to loose your will to live. This is the stay in bed, physically deteriorate one. (I'm simplifying this as an example) Liken it to having pneumonia.

The kind you are describing is the one where you loose your will to want. Liken it to walking pneumonia. You just don't care about shit, but you are still functioning. You don't get mad. You don't get happy. If you won the lottery it wouldn't matter to you, because you don't want anything. (not that you would turn $$$ down, but if you got it, what you think of is what others could do with it) Is this what you have? (It's usually brought on by an irreplacable loss) Everything just looks like more of the same crap recycled. No magic. No snap. You would lift those pom-poms and shake them if there was anything to shake them about. :sadcheer:

I've had this 'walking depression' a few times and the only thing that changed it for me was adoring something. Something that took time, became life. Raise a puppy. Fix up a little log house. Take art classes doing something I thought was cool. The problem was/is finding in all my 'don't want' the gumption to find the puppy/house/classes. To start something I really hope will last as long as I do. Then puppy dies, loose house, don't have time or $ for art. Get depressed again. It's another cycle but one in which what I did do was VERY worth it. Find somethings you would really like in the rest of your life. Go. Now. I've wasted years in the doldrums before I figured out this cycle. It's all cycles. May as well pick ones you enjoy or you will just keep treading water. Oh, and when you lose the stuff you REALLY like instead of treading water it hurts a LOT more. And it is STILL worth it.

And if this isn't what's going on for you... oops. Ignore. :D

[Dingfod]

The kind you are describing is the one where you loose your will to want. Liken it to walking pneumonia. You just don't care about shit, but you are still functioning. You don't get mad. You don't get happy. If you won the lottery it wouldn't matter to you, because you don't want anything. (not that you would turn $$$ down, but if you got it, what you think of is what others could do with it) Is this what you have?Yeah, that's it.

(It's usually brought on by an irreplacable loss)I guess you could say mentally writing-off your first born offspring as a lost cause may qualify as that sort of loss.