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What was the last thing that made you laugh out loud. And I mean literally laugh out loud, not just something that made you smile, or smirk, or feel faintly amused.
For me, it was seeing someone else laughing out loud.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I bought a book this morning (The Timewaster Letters by Robin Cooper) and made the mistake of reading a few letters at random on the bus home. The other passengers must have thought I was a bit simple 'cos I kept laughing out loud and couldn't make it stop.
For a clue why, here's a few comments from the cover:
"Cooper's letters are absurd, pointless , and very, very funny" - Ricky Gervais
"I have WASTED two hours this morning weeing myself in hysterics at the book... it's completely brilliant" - Stephanie Merritt, Deputy Editor, Books, Observer
"Not many books have me laughing out loud, shouting "F**k off!" in disbelief. This one did" - Martin Freeman, The Office, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"So funny, the only place you can read it without drawing looks of annoyance from anyone is a big huge empty field" - Graham Linehan, co-creator, Father Ted
It's too good for words, and it makes you sick that you never wrote it (anyone could have really, it's completely daft - as long as you're a comic genius of a writer of course, in which case you can easily manage to make it seem deceptively easy)
I can recall an occasion in the 1970's when I got on a train at London Bridge on my way back from work.
A very dapper city gent got on the train, complete with bowler hat and briefcase. He sat down, got his newspaper (FT) out of his briefcase and tossed the briefcase on to the luggage rack above his head. Unfortunately, there was no cord in the rack and the briefcase came straight down and hit his hat. He looked liked Freddie Parrot Faced Davis. There were a few muffled titters then everyone in the carriage erupted with unctrollable laughter.
Very much a 'you had to have been there situation' with my two year old daughter. She had been sitting beside her big sister for a long period of time as they played a game and she had obviously got the pins and needles sensation in her leg. She caming running up to me whining 'Mummy this toe's not working - fix it !' Her crumpled face made me laugh and she got really annoyed with me whining 'It's not fair mummy. Toe's not working. Fix it mummy , fix it!'. The more she got annoyed , the funnier she looked but then mummy's are supposed to have a big magic wand that makes everything ok aren't they ?
My hubby and I were in stitches last night thinking back to things we used to do before we had kids and had time to ourselves. I remember egging him on to take a shot of a ropeswing which was positioned over a pond. I knew it didn't look that safe but convinced him that it was a good idea. He obliged and came crashing down and I was there , camera in hand to record swampman for posterity. The worst of it was , it was a scorcher of a day and he had to walk home squelching , getting funny looks from people.That may seem really mean but the pond was shallow and we were always doing things like that to each other.I also embarrassed him one day in the winter when we had first started going out when we were walking past a large group of young boys kicking a ball about (Some were his brothers' friends). We had to walk up a path with a hilly incline and it was iced over. I slipped and grabbed the first available thing - him. He was slightly in front of me and I grabbed him by the waist. We looked completely ridiculous skating backwards down the path , him in front and me holding on to his waist.