This the thread where we share the experiences in our life which might've been funny when they actually happened, but definitely aren't funny when we tell about them to others.

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A couple of years ago I was in Riga, Latvia, with my uni mates. We were reading a Latvian movie magazine at our hostel. Now, in the Latvian language they change the names of foreigners to match their Latvian pronounciation, even when the names are written down. We spotted an article about Meg Ryan, only in Latvian her name was written "Mega Raina". In Finnish, "raina" is a slang word for "a film", it's roughly like the Finnish equivalent of the word "flick". So Meg Ryan's Latvian name is... "Mega Film"!

BWAHAHAHA!!!

You can imagine our amusement.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 23 September 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

...AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Wait...no

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 September 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

gut laugh.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 23 September 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone else?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 23 September 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

In Spain, Nicolas Cage's name is NEE-ko-la KA-hey.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 23 September 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

(sorry, that's just a kind of follow on to your story)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 23 September 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

There was this bunch of tourists and they were getting really excited about some scaffolding. When ever I'm with the same friends, I go "look scaffolding!!" "WOW!"

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 23 September 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

This one time, at band camp...

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 23 September 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

heard it.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 23 September 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

A friend of mine was in a pub and this guy with a kind of interesting nose came in and my friend, kind of drunk, blurted "HEY MAN, NICE NOSE!".

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 September 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I was sitting with a friend, I was eating a sandwich, this guy came up to us and offered a leaflet about a church, and asked us "if we were together", I didn't get a chance to answer because I was eating...and my pal was like "yeah", and the church guy was like "oh I see" gave us a leaflet and walked away! "Dude! why'd you say we were together?" "haha he musta thought, haha" "oh well" "haha"

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 23 September 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

We fell down our stairs yesterday, in a slow-motion comedic kind of way - 2 year old son gripping my hand as we flew / clunked freakily down.
Then I managed to break the fall by bashing my head on the handrail about 5 times, unintentionally.

Well, he laughed! It must've looked funny.

― donna (donna), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh this was really weird last night: The booking guy at the club we played is this guy named Matt (who somewhat coincedentally is the singer in jaymc's band, C4n4st4). I'd met him a couple of times so I knew what he looked like. So when we got there last night for soundcheck, he was setting up a drum kit and tuning it and practicing, which I thought was weird because he hadn't said anything about being in any of the bands we were playing with. I said "Matt, you're playing drums tonight?" and he was like "Uh, yeah?" like it was obvious. So I kept asking him stuff about where we should set up and when things were happening, but he was acting kind of strange, like why was I asking him this stuff, and not really answering my questions. Anyways, long story short, it turns out that these are two different people, one the booking guy at the club and one the drummer for the opening band, BOTH named Matt, who look almost exactly alike despite not being related. The physical similarity was very eerie. But that explained why the drummer Matt was so confused when I was asking him questions. Once we figured it out, he was really cool about the whole thing.
-- n/a (nu...), September 23rd, 2004 11:32 AM. (Nick A.) (later)

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually slipped on a banana peel in Seattle once. Just like in a cartoon. It was funny then and funny for EVAH.

― andy, Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

One day after eating a turkey sandwich for lunch, I got really drowsy. One of my co-workers called me on it "hey Nick, you're dozing!". In an attempt to say "I shouldn't have ate that sandwich with turkey on it", my barely lucid self accidentally proclaims "I shouldn't have had that circus with Tammy on it". Later that night, I'm at my friend's house (I told him about my speaking stumble already, btw), where I meet his friend Tammy. Lots of crazy shit happens while she (& others) are there. When she finally leaves, she says "a'ight boys, I'm taking this circus on out of here". Circus with Tammy on it, Tammy with the circus, yeah.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

A previous post reminded me of this: I write summaries of lawsuits lawsuits at my job, and for a lot of the minor lawsuits I just write something like "Slip and fall complaint." or "Slip and fall complaint involving ice." So there was one lawsuit where a lady actually slipped on a banana peel and I wrote "Slip and fall complaint involving a banana peel."

― Hurting, Friday, 24 September 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

A friend of mine was in a pub and this guy with a kind of interesting nose came in and my friend, kind of drunk, blurted "HEY MAN, NICE NOSE!".

-- adam. (adamr...), September 23rd, 2004 10:53 AM. (later)

totally breaks the spirit of the thread. shit made me laugh out loud!

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post "Slip and complaint involving hilarity" would have been better

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)

A few years ago, I picked up my friend Julian to go to a show. When he got in the car, there was this really intense vanilla smell, as if a gigantic vanilla wafer were sitting in the passenger seat. I asked him what was with the vanilla; he explained that his shoes got wet in the rain the day before, and to make sure they wouldn't smell bad, he'd poured vanilla extract into them.

This would be lots funnier if you were there to see his expression and attitude of "you know, this perfectly normal thing everyone does"... or maybe not.

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Friday, 24 September 2004 04:45 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

A couple months ago my friend's Irish girlfriend was visiting Finland, and we had a party at his place. At some point we were discussing how old everyone is.

Me: "...just kidding, I'm twenty-six."
Other guy (who was a bit drunk so his English wasn't exactly perfect): "Oh, I'm too."
Me: "Really? You look a bit older."

BWAHAHHAHHAHAHA!!!!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 22 December 2005 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

Geddit? Too = two.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 23 December 2005 07:16 (nineteen years ago)

too means also!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 23 December 2005 07:18 (nineteen years ago)

My mates and I got really drunk on the bus on the way to a festival. When we arrived at the car park we realised that the festival and campsite were a good twenty minute walk away. We needed to pee so bad.

My mates, all guys proceeded to pee into some bushes, but I had to go stumbling through the undergrowth to find somewhere hidden. They were all shouting for me to hurry up.

I whipped my trousers down, crouched and peed. Then on standing to pull my breeks back up noticed that I'd forgotten to pull my panties down! I'd peed right through them! The hilarity! The fun of me stumbling drunkenly through nettles taking my trousers off, removing me pants and falling, naked from the waist down into the bushes!! Ha ha! Me discarding my sodden pants - leaving them hanging from a tree. Me spending the weekend scratching nettle welts on my arse.

What a hoot.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 23 December 2005 07:48 (nineteen years ago)

Now that was actually a bit funny.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 23 December 2005 07:54 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, the following year we detoured into the bushes to see if my knickers were still hanging there but they were gone.

Probably lining the nest of a crow somewhere.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 23 December 2005 07:59 (nineteen years ago)

At the age of abt 16 I was at a friend's home. His divorced mother, with whom he lived, was at her new guy's house on the other side of town. We decided to go out and get something to eat, and didn't bother putting on jackets and stuff even though it was in the middle of winter, since the shop was nearby.

Now, when the entrance door slams shut, my friend suddenly realizes his keys are left inside. It's rather cold, so the only reasonable action is to go to his mother's boyfriend's house and borrow her keys.

The problem is, my friend doesn't remember the man's name (and this was before the mobile phone era, so we cannot call his mother directly). "He's called John, but the surname... um... I'm sure it's pretty short, and it starts with a G. Or maybe the G is somewhere else in the name. Hm."

"Knowing you", I say as a joke, "that probably means he's called Strøm." [somewhat usual Norwegian surname]. "YES!!!" he exclaims and all ends well.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 23 December 2005 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

That reminds me, a few years ago I got to know this girl who has the same surname as me, Alh0. We began to joke that we should get married, so we could get a double-name, Alh0-Alh0. Then one day we were talking about our grandfathers, and I mentioned my grandpa had lived in Vallila, which is a suburb in Helsinki. She was like, "Hold on, my grandpa lived in Vallila too!". Fortunately we realized it was the wrong grandpa on her side, lest we'd discovered a hidden family scandal.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 23 December 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

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