Jack Handey

“Your very presence is violent!”

Words i heard last night. Not the kind of thing that feels great coming from someone who has a history of giving you a hard time or trolling you on social media, but something you learn to get over quickly and pull out the thick skin for. "Your very presence is violent." But what if it comes from one of your best friends? And what if you suspect they might be right?  [Disclaimer: Now i imagine [...]

Chasing LOL – part III

Oh sure, you type LOL, but not while you are ever actually laughing out loud - you wouldn't have the stability... But in the meantime let's take some time out to appreciate five more quotes from my favourite actual LOL guy, Jack Handey: 'Don't ever get your speedometer confused with your clock, like I did once, because the faster you go the later you think you are.' [Jack Handey] 'One thing that a computer can [...]

By |2015-04-22T21:29:31+02:00April 22nd, 2015|and other animals., fun|0 Comments

Spread Love Challenge

So i was nominated for this Spread Love Challenge by TheFabLetters which is this super interesting blog i stumbled on a short while ago where two women write letters to each other which become the premise of the blog posts. Some really good stuff there. The Rules: Write ten four word sentences about what love means to you. Share your favorite quote on love. Nominate ten other bloggers for the same. Now normally i wouldn't be [...]

Chasing LOL – part II

You know how this works. We write LOL, but we barely ever really mean it... but Jack Handey is one of the guys who i know have made people LOL best and for real... so take a look at these offerings and see if any of them do it for you: 'It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.' [Jack Handey] 'I guess of all [...]

By |2015-03-29T21:59:41+02:00March 29th, 2015|and other animals., humour'ish, silly things|0 Comments

Dangerous Things You Can Least Expect: Wedding Titles

Well it has been a long time coming but Brad Fish is back and with him a brand new Dangerous Things You Can Least Expect video, this time dishing out his wisdom and warnings of the kind of titles we give to people at weddings which can set us up for a whole lot of danger if we are not careful.     If you're wondering who Brad Fish is, he is an [...]

the latest brett andy offerings to critique…

many of you already know the history, but for anyone who may not... in the beginning there was Jack Handey and such winners as: "It’s sad that a family can be torn apart by something as simple as a pack of wild dogs." [Jack Handey] "Maybe in order to understand mankind we have to look at that word itself. MANKIND. Basically, it's made up of two separate words "mank" and "ind." What do these words [...]

By |2012-01-13T05:52:51+02:00January 13th, 2012|and other animals., humour'ish|4 Comments

take a minute and vote for your latest brett andy favourites if you will…

so a while ago, after ten rounds of brett andy voting [jack handeyesque wannabe quotes i'm working on improving - some good, some bad, some ugly, but every now and then i just hit it.] i was going to do a massive best of vote in which i picked all my top ones and got people to pick the best of the best... but then i changed computers and all my brett andy voting results [...]

By |2011-11-16T11:17:52+02:00November 16th, 2011|humour'ish|2 Comments

The Tenth round of Brett Andy voting… fire up those click fingers…

Back in the day there was a funny guy called Jack Handey who wrote deep thorts like: 'One day one of my little nephews came up to me and asked me if the equator was a real line that went around the Earth, or just an imaginary one. I had to laugh. Laugh and laugh. Because I didn't know, and I thought that maybe by laughing he would forget what he asked me.' [Jack Handey] [...]

By |2011-08-15T23:06:18+02:00August 15th, 2011|Uncategorized|15 Comments

brett andy to vote round 7

so once upon a time there was a guy called jack handey who wrote some classic mostly one liners which were funny and random and sometimes both all at once... this inspired me to try my own and we are on the seventh round of voting - so if any of these make you smile or laugh or think about laughing really loudly then please let me know in a comment which ones do it [...]

By |2011-06-21T18:24:32+02:00June 21st, 2011|humour'ish|2 Comments
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