Things that made me laugh

1. Clippy: The E! True Hollywood Story

I can't stop laughing at this story. Honestly, I will be doing something else, maybe faxing, copying, or stapling papers, or even organizing papers to fax, copy, or staple or I'm unstapling papers to fax and make copies or copying papers to staple and fax and this will pop into my head along w/ the image of Clippy and his "friendly bug eyes and smug smile"...

Clippy was riding high. With each new version of Microsoft Office, all the way through the turn of the millennium, Clippy was right there, annoying the ever-living fuck out of anyone who wasn't retarded. "It looks like you're writing a letter," he would so keenly observe, "Would you like some help?" No matter how many times he was banished by a momentarily peeved office worker, Clippy would always find his way back into the mainstream

Insert more of Clippy's story here, but I'm going to now skip to the end...

Love him or hate him, there is no denying the impact Clippy had on all of us.

"It looks like you're writing a letter," Clippy calls out me, looking desperate and hopeful.

Sorry Clippy, unfortunately I am not.

(via daily roundup)


2. Goulet!

Remember the image of the Virgin Mary on the cheese sandwich (which spawned my favorite ebay item ever- the virgin mary-kate and ashley cheese sandwich)? In the same realm we now have Robert Goulet's face on Arnold's disturbingly unfit stomach. It's like a train wreck, meaning I can't look away, if you're not familiar w/ the adage. Or like when you smell something so god awful you just can't stop yourself from smelling it again. Or you hand it to your friend and say "smell this" and they say "why would I smell that if you just said it smelled so bad?" but they end up smelling it anyway and you both laugh and laugh and laugh. So yeah, it's like that.

(via Bre)


3. Is my 2 year old a racist?

I'm not a salon.com member (re: not elite) so I can't read the entire article, but just the image of the kid in the devil costume w/ the blacked out eyes is enough for me. So innocently smiling, all the while hating black people. Speaking of racists, I watched The Office last night and found it much funnier than the first episode, maybe b/c it wasn't an exact copy of the original. Or maybe it was the American version of Keith (big monotone guy in British version), with his "Let's smoke some weed, mon" or "How abouta some spaghetti?" He floored me.

(via gawker)


4. Surprise party to cheer up Conor Oberst

Again, made me laugh. I'm going with a theme, if you couldn't tell by the title. Maybe I need my own clippy- "Looks like you're writing a blog". It could help me insert witty comments and keen observations. I'd call him "bloggy" (an homage to the fallen clippy, obvs). Moving on...this made me think of this version of Mad libs cleverly renamed Sad libs in Fran Magazine in which you were to replace lyrics to a Bright Eyes song. Funny.

(via stereogum)


5. Swank: International Fruit Smuggler?

With the huge success of Brokedown Palace, they (meaning really important people who have the power to greenlight movies) are already in talks for the film version of this incident, starring Hilary Duff as Hillary Swank and Chad Micheal Murray as the fruit (they worked together in A Cinderella Story, so they're already, like the best of friends). I can picture (insert me, looking off into space, thoughtfully) the Oscar winning moment as Duff delivers the heart breaking speech below:

I’m just a simple girl from a trailer park. How could I know that I had to tell people that I was carrying fruit for my husband, Chaz? Luckily, they let me keep my can of Cheez Whiz and a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos, otherwise I would’ve had nuthin’ to eat the entire trip. Hey, have you ever been on an airplane? They give you little bags of nuts to eat!

(via defamer)

And that's it for the "things that made me laugh" issue. If I could have touched just one person out there, I'd like that person to be Orlando Bloom.
R.