The funniest AH dweller

Henry: Get the fuck out of here, Tommy!

Tommy: Ya motherfucker! I almost had him, I almost had him. Ya stuttering prick ya. Frankie, was he shaking? I wonder about you sometimes, Henry. You may fold under questioning.
He was pretty awesome in Casino too. "I lost control? Look at you, you're fucking walking around like John Barrymore! A fucking pink robe and a fucking cigarette holder? I lost control?"
 
So, who here has actually won a Readers Choice award for best Humor story?

Hmmmmmmmm?
 
I fear how much tradgedy and time she experienced to earn it. 😬
I feel a little nervous to share all this personal stuff but here we go.

I'm 44 and almost all the "tragedy" is self-inflicted nonsense due to me being an infantile doofus who had a bad habit of falling in love with people I really shouldn't have. And I'm not sure that rates as tragedy. It's more bone-headedness.

I still have two parents who love me, even though (to be honest) neither of them understand me at all. I had everything I needed while growing up, if not very much of what I might have wanted, and probably came out better for it. I had no childhood traumas, no abuse, no lack of love and affection from those around me.

My life is actually remarkable for how non-traumatic it is and has been. Fully a quarter of the other girls I know suffered sexual abuse before the age of fifteen. Others lived through the horrors of divorce, death, teenage pregnancy - often more than one at a time. Statistically at least one of my classmates from school has been killed by her husband or lover. Probably more, given the country I grew up in.

I have, somehow, made it to where I am now almost entirely unscathed by others.

Not so much myself - there are at least two occasions where I should have died and somehow didn't - once at age 2 in a pool and the second time at age 12 on a hike when I got briefly caught in undertow and was nearly swept out to sea.

I'm extremely appreciative of how privileged I am. So I read a lot, and internalise a lot, and try to be thoughtful and kind when I can. I guess I find it easy to put myself in other people's shoes - sometimes anyway.

The humour is just the fact that I love laughing at my own puns. That and I'm not actually a person; I'm two lemurs and an emperor penguin in a frock.
 
All normal people are alike in their seriousness. Each of the dozen active members here is funny in their own tragic way.
In the last couple of years I've accepted that I was never truly normal and that I will never be. But that's okay. I can partially thank Lit for that.
 
I feel a little nervous to share all this personal stuff but here we go.

I'm 44 and almost all the "tragedy" is self-inflicted nonsense due to me being an infantile doofus who had a bad habit of falling in love with people I really shouldn't have. And I'm not sure that rates as tragedy. It's more bone-headedness.

I still have two parents who love me, even though (to be honest) neither of them understand me at all. I had everything I needed while growing up, if not very much of what I might have wanted, and probably came out better for it. I had no childhood traumas, no abuse, no lack of love and affection from those around me.

My life is actually remarkable for how non-traumatic it is and has been. Fully a quarter of the other girls I know suffered sexual abuse before the age of fifteen. Others lived through the horrors of divorce, death, teenage pregnancy - often more than one at a time. Statistically at least one of my classmates from school has been killed by her husband or lover. Probably more, given the country I grew up in.

I have, somehow, made it to where I am now almost entirely unscathed by others.

Not so much myself - there are at least two occasions where I should have died and somehow didn't - once at age 2 in a pool and the second time at age 12 on a hike when I got briefly caught in undertow and was nearly swept out to sea.

I'm extremely appreciative of how privileged I am. So I read a lot, and internalise a lot, and try to be thoughtful and kind when I can. I guess I find it easy to put myself in other people's shoes - sometimes anyway.

The humour is just the fact that I love laughing at my own puns. That and I'm not actually a person; I'm two lemurs and an emperor penguin in a frock.
It's okay, you were nominated but you don't have to justify it or describe your own life. You can briefly thank the Academy later if you win.
 
I feel a little nervous to share all this personal stuff but here we go.

I'm 44 and almost all the "tragedy" is self-inflicted nonsense due to me being an infantile doofus who had a bad habit of falling in love with people I really shouldn't have. And I'm not sure that rates as tragedy. It's more bone-headedness.

I still have two parents who love me, even though (to be honest) neither of them understand me at all. I had everything I needed while growing up, if not very much of what I might have wanted, and probably came out better for it. I had no childhood traumas, no abuse, no lack of love and affection from those around me.

My life is actually remarkable for how non-traumatic it is and has been. Fully a quarter of the other girls I know suffered sexual abuse before the age of fifteen. Others lived through the horrors of divorce, death, teenage pregnancy - often more than one at a time. Statistically at least one of my classmates from school has been killed by her husband or lover. Probably more, given the country I grew up in.

I have, somehow, made it to where I am now almost entirely unscathed by others.

Not so much myself - there are at least two occasions where I should have died and somehow didn't - once at age 2 in a pool and the second time at age 12 on a hike when I got briefly caught in undertow and was nearly swept out to sea.

I'm extremely appreciative of how privileged I am. So I read a lot, and internalise a lot, and try to be thoughtful and kind when I can. I guess I find it easy to put myself in other people's shoes - sometimes anyway.

The humour is just the fact that I love laughing at my own puns. That and I'm not actually a person; I'm two lemurs and an emperor penguin in a frock.
I find myself in many of the things you mentioned, except that my near-death experiences were about my own driving recklessness as a teenager. I started devouring books at a very early age and now I realize that even then, other than being an early sign of my curiosity, it was also a form of escapism. I just never fit well, even if I was faaaar from being unsocial. I was never satisfied with the same things as most people around me. How many others find reading a recluse from the general suckiness (is this a word?!) of the world?

Btw, you are so killing the vibe with this heart-baring stuff :rolleyes:
 
I'm also going to nominate Djmac1031. Maybe I'm just log-rolling because he seems to like most of my posts. However, just looking at his avatar makes me smile, although I don't know who it's depicting.
 
I am using my exclusive right as a topic starter to nominate a second person. I nominate @Tilan . At least half of his posts contain jabs towards some AH member, but the humor is top-notch ;)
 
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