Comments on: Testing our HQ (Humor Quotient)

By: Cindy

Cindy — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:56:25 +0000

I don’t think I would have lived this long if I couldn’t see humor in just about everything. Not jokes, but everyday things that make up living. To laugh at myself. And the human condition. Laughter is as fundamental to life as breath. And it is delicious when you can make a lover or a friend laugh.

By: pjv

pjv — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:00:51 +0000

Well, then…

Last year, some guy was raffling off his $1.5 million house by selling raffle tickets for $50. apiece.

Immediately I got this new Brain Storm: Why not take $500. out of savings and buy 1000 tickets and then sell them for $100. apiece. That’s like 100% profit and where’s the harm, if one of those tickets wins, someone still has a $1.5 million dollar house for $100.

But then I thought, maybe that falls under some kind of “scalping” laws, and maybe there’s something about the original seller being able to guarantee the goods, while I couldn’t actually do that…

Still… if everybody could do that, it would save the housing industry and put a little money in everybody’s pocket… wouldn’t it? ?:]]

By: pjv

pjv — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:41:19 +0000

In 1967 I was the young wife of a sailor who was at sea and I was at home with a new baby.

I had no money for food and heating oil. Temps dipped to 19 F and I had to do something.

A Brain Storm hit: I could cash a check at the commissary and use it for food & fuel, then the next day, I could cash another check for the same amount and put that cash in the bank to cover the previous one each day until payday when the pay would cover it completely.

This is how the baby & I made it thru the winter.

Later when some friends were having financial difficulties, I told them of this magic method of saving themselves.

The husband’s eyes got big as saucers and he said: “You CAN’T do that. It’s called check-kiting and it’s illegal in at least 48 states!”

Since I had no idea that this was a crime when I did it to save baby & me, I was horrified to find our it was a criminal and since intent is part of a crime, my conscience was completely clear.

Dang, and I’d thought I was onto something brilliant.

I never did it again, but you know, thinking in that way for good and not evil might just help us solve the problems of this economy, you know? *L*

By: Doug Evans

Doug Evans — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:48:51 +0000

The current popular solution for depression is to pop a pill. This gives one a shallow temporary euphoria, or so I’m told. Later, if you don’t get your pills, an even deeper depression sets in. Some people have committed suicide from use of anti-depressants. It has become a push-button, pill-popping culture. Everyone expects and demands instant solutions. If contrariwise we willingly think into the deeper causes of things, get in touch with our inner selves, and prepare to do with a little less stuff, our depression will soon melt away in the morning sunshine. I guarantee it will work. It has for me!

By: Jim Seybert

Jim Seybert — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:42:27 +0000

I complained for years about not having enough time to do all the things I wanted to, because I had too many clients. Now that I have no clients, I have time to do all those things – and I’m bitching that I have no clients.

I’m sure you’ll agree that my core competency is complaining and if we can find a way to monetize THAT, we’ll all be lot richer.

By: gerryspence

gerryspence — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:44:44 +0000

Daisy:

You are a brave woman. I remember that the Chinese symbol for danger is also the symbol for opportunity. We are in dangerous times. We do have the opportunity to shift our values to something more real and fundamental, and, at last, more fulfilling — family, slowing down, creating, making a garden, learning to can fruits and vegetables, doing our own laundry, our own auto repairs, looking for ways to help our neighbors and make a community — a tribe — enjoying people, the sound of birds, the movement of life, and learning how, little at a time, to regain our freedom which comes from spending less money and more of the real stuff of living. You will be able to add to this list with your own ideas. You already have.

Gerry

Thanks,

Gerry

By: Daisy

Daisy — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:28:27 +0000

Well, I’ve pretty much have lost everything. I lost my job last year, applied for roughly 500 jobs, was unemployed for 4 months and on the verge of bankruptcy, my ex-husband had to move in with me to help pay the bills, then I got a job at half of my salary and my ex-husband was laid off his job for 4 months, all this after I had to obtain a restraining order against a ex-boyfriend for stalking and harassment while my Mother was dying of brain cancer. In a way, you have to have a sense of humor to survive that, but this is what I learned-I think we all have gotten off track and this depression we are in, is needed to teach us to behave in a more compassionate way to our fellow man and change what drives us in life. In many ways, we have become a shallow crew, so maybe a little humbling is needed, to redefine us as a nation.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:32:00 +0000

@nesika
actually, that solution would cost $40 trillion.

I have a better idea though. How about we all vote Ron Paul in 2012? and force all our representatives to actually follow the constitution. No more unconstitutional federal reserve. No more unconstitutional money *not* backed by gold and silver…

By: hemroids

hemroids — Sat, 09 May 2009 22:32:56 +0000

try this i good

By: Speedlimit

Speedlimit — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:07:00 +0000

Ouch……it is bad enough the gov’t puts people in jail for consuming a natural herb, but having a Ben Harper song about aforementioned herb pulled on a blog….that’s just straight up wild…..must be that dang “Bong Hits For Jesus” Supreme Court case ; )