A to Z on Mondays (Backwards!)---J is for Joke

The humor in my poem today is a bit on the dark side. I hope you'll forgive me.

Punch Line

"Knock, knock. Who's there?"
He told them all day long.
He told them everywhere.

"Knock, knock. Who's there?"
It drove all his friends crazy,
but he just didn't care.

"Knock, knock. Who's there?"
"PLEASE STOP!" they said.
"Orange you glad I didn't say banana?"
He said it as a dare.

His friends were steamed.
They had had enough.
Their ears blew smoke.
Their eyes saw red.
They said, "WE DON'T CARE WHO'S THERE!"
Then they knocked him in the head.


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If You Want It Done, Make It Fun!

Volkswagen is running a competition right now for the Fun Theory Award. They want to encourage people to discover new ways to change people's behavior for the better by adding an element of fun.

From their website, "The fun theory award recognises those thoughts, ideas, and inventions that help prove the fun theory. That fun is the easiest way to change people's behaviour for the better."

The competition runs through November 15, so if you know of a way to change people's behavior for the better by adding an element of fun, send in your ideas. You just might win the grand prize!

My friend McCafferty who writes the blog, McCafferty's Pub, posted a video of one example of how to change behavior by adding an element of fun that is already in practice in Sweden, the staircase turned into a piano keyboard. I thought this was a great idea, and I wanted to know more about it. So I researched it a little and wrote this post as a result. Thank you, McCafferty for sharing this video with me!

Piano Stairs

Here are two more examples from the Fun Theory Award website of ways to change behavior for the good by adding fun to the equation.


Bottle Bank Arcade

The World's Deepest Bin

If you want to see some sample entries in the competition like the Wiki Traffic Light, Connect Four Beer Crate, the Cycle Bus, and more, visit here.

A to Z on Mondays (Backwards!)---K is for Kazoo

Just Give Me My Kazoo

I can't play the violin.
Can't coax a note from a string.
Just give me my kazoo,
and listen to me sing.

I don't want to play the drums.
Keeping the rhythm's not for me.
Just give me my kazoo.
I'll make it hum like a bee.

Don't ask me to sit at the piano.
That's a decision you'll regret.
Just let me play on my kazoo.
You'll hear a tune you won't forget.

I can't blow a trumpet.
I can't toot a horn.
These lips are kazoo lips!
It's why these lips were born!



Kazoo Man

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Let's Squish Our Fruits TOGETHER!!

I want to go shopping in this grocery store. It would certainly be more entertaining than where I usually shop.

This video was made by a group calling themselves "Improv Everywhere." According to their website, "Improv Everywhere causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places."

With regards to this particular video, the website states, "For our latest mission, six undercover actors burst into song in a grocery store in Queens. Three minutes and lots of silly choreography later, they returned to their roles as shoppers and stock boys. The mission was filmed with hidden robotic, lipstick, and wearable cameras."


What great fun! I love the expressions on the faces of the shoppers there.

A to Z on Mondays (Backwards!)---L is for Leaves

Leaves

Grandma presses the prettiest ones
between the pages of a book.


Uncle Harry is too busy.
He doesn't give them a second look.


Dad gets mad when they fall on the windshield.
He doesn't like them, blocking his view.


Mom gets tired of sweeping them up.
Wet ones are tracked in, stuck to the bottom of her shoe.


Aunt Margaret is busy raking them.


She's always first to get them piled by the street.


Me?... I just like looking at the pretty colors



and listening to them crunch beneath my feet.



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I Can't Look Away!

I'm not quite sure how to introduce this art video. It is fun and wildly creative in a bizarre, fascinating, can't-look-away, psychedelic drugs, imagination-out-of-control kind of way. I was reminded a little of Monty Python's Flying Circus and a little of the Beatles cartoon movie of Yellow Submarine when I watched it. This is called "Muto," and it is a wall-painted animation by Blu.

Hit a Deer---Win a Turkey!!

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This ad has been running quite frequently in our local newspaper lately. Every time I see it, I laugh. I live in an area where deer often wander into the roads and are struck by cars. This is an ad for a company that does body repair work on automobiles.

If you hit a deer with your car and take it to this company to be repaired, then you will "win" a turkey. This strikes me as a very peculiar way to advertise.

If your car hits a large beast and sustains damage, you will get a prize!! How lucky can you get? It sounds as if it is a competition or game or sport to see who can hit the most deer and win the most turkeys (or the substituted hams--HA HA!).

I can almost hear a carnival worker shouting that out at passersby through a megaphone, "Step right up. Hit a deer---win a turkey! Do damage to your car and take home dinner!"

Can't you just hear somebody saying, "Hey, Honey, could you go for a ride on some back country roads and see if you can get lucky and hit a deer. We still need to get a turkey for Thanksgiving Dinner."