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Complex Numbers #491520 added March 1, 2007 at 3:26pm
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Fourteen Thousand?
My wife has a thick paperback book called, "14,000 Things to be Happy About."
http://www.amazon.com/14-000-Things-Happy-About/dp/0894803700/sr=8-1/qid=1172779...
All I can say is, " "
Fourteen thousand? If you contemplated ONE of those saccharine gems per day, you'd be using up 2/3 of your life. Or more, since doing so would certainly shorten your life by a significant amount. Me, I'd die of insulin poisoning long before I reached #13,999.
The book is in our Place of Excremeditation, so I have thumbed through it from time to time. The only saving grace it has is that a lot of things that seemed to make that author "happy" would disgust me:
Wet babies She probably meant "just bathed," but I read it differently.
Golden retrievers 
Naming your baby That would imply that I had a baby, which would cause me no happiness whatsoever.
On the plus side, the book might be a good source of Writer's Cramp prompts...
So I thought I'd come up with my own list of Things That Make Me Happy. Sadly, I don't have much time, so this'll just be a start. Feel free to add.
 Watching people make fools of themselves.
The Darwin Awards.
News stories about freak accidents.
Psychotic Flash animations.
Other peoples' misfortune.
Someone gets theirs.
Kittens.*
Ultraviolent movies.
Well-executed practical jokes.
Hanging up on telemarketers.
Signage mistakes, like the C falling off from "Now Hiring Closers."
*Well, I had to have SOMETHING legitimately cute in there. |
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