The Funniest Thing of the Week

If I ever get around to so doing, this would be a fabulous place to post entries for Funniest Thing of the Week.

As everyone knows, the Funniest Thing of the Week is chosen from a list of contenders, each of which must meet these criteria:

• Must be something funny
• So funny that the mere recollection of it causes me to laugh out loud
• Just on one occasion is all it takes to qualify
• And it can't come from The Onion or The Simpsons
• Craigslist entries can be fantastic
• As can be other classified ads
• Particularly those where someone's trying to sell something they value very highly
• That is really probably crap
• Or I'd think it to be crap, anyway
• Or weird barters are good, too
• Like I saw an ad one time where someone wanted help installing a sex swing, and offered--I don't know--something like "a nice abstract painting" in return
• Weird reference questions work well, too
• Like the one where the toothless old man asks for help finding information on "Birt' control." "Um," replied the rather reserved librarian, "What kind of information, exactly, were you looking for?" She thought an answer to this question might help her think of the right section of the Dewey Decimal System this dude might consider appropriate, like abortion vs. sheepskin vs. Lord knows what else. He answered, "Damn birts is flappin' they wings an' shittin' all over the yard, I needs somepin' can fix 'em up good!"

Anyway, the big reason I put this thing up is so that I could send a msg to a friend who also has a blog.