Silly Joke Friday

Silly Joke #1 (2 Quick Marriage Jokes)

“Oh God,” sighed the wife one morning, “I’m convinced my mind is almost completely gone!” Her husband looked up from the newspaper and commented, “I’m not surprised: You’ve been giving me a piece of it every day for twenty years!”

Young Son: “Is it true, Dad? I heard that in some parts of the world a man doesn’t know his wife until he marries her”
Dad: “That happens in every country, son…”

Silly Joke #2

This woman rushed to see the local urgent care, looking very much worried and all strung out. She rattles off the doctor as soon as she is seen… “Look at me! Ever since I woke up this morning, I noticed my hair is extremely wiry and frazzled, my skin is overly wrinkled and pasty, my eyes are completely bloodshot and puffy, and I have this corpse-like look on my face! What’s WRONG with me, Doctor!?” The doctor does a very thorough examination, then calmly says: “Would it help if I told you that you are in completely perfect health…?”

Silly Joke #3

Mr. and Mrs. Wilson entered an overly crowded elevator. As it descended, she became increasingly furious with her husband, who was delighted to be tightly pressed against a very gorgeous young woman. When the elevator stopped at the main floor, the gorgeous woman suddenly whirled around, slapped Mr. Wilson, and angrily yelled, “That will teach you to pinch total strangers! Men are such pigs!” Totally bewildered, Mr. Wilson was halfway to the parking lot with his wife when he choked, “I… I… didn’t pinch that woman?” “Of course you didn’t,” said his wife, consolingly. “I did!”

Bonus Silly Joke (Adult Humor)

On the first day of third grade, Little Johnny’s teacher was conducting a game to break the ice for her new students. The appointed student was to describe their father’s profession in five words. The rest of the class were challenged to guess what the work was, and the correct answer allowed them to be next in line. Much to her dismay, she noticed that she had bad Little Johnny again this year. Hoping to avoid him at all costs, she first started the game with Little Suzy. Little Suzy walked to the front of the class, drew back her shoulders, and proudly announced, “My Daddy cuts people open.” Hands shot up all over the room, and the teacher was grateful that Little Johnny didn’t raise his hand. Little Sims guessed correctly that her father was a surgeon, and took his turn. He stood in the front of the room and said, “My Daddy locks people up.” Again hands shot up…….but thankfully Little Johnny didn’t raise his hand. The game went on until all but Little Johnny was left. The teacher asked, “Little Johnny, do you want the class to guess what your Daddy does?” “Yeah” he said, and quickly bounded up to the front of the room. “My Daddy eats light bulbs!” The teacher was a bit taken aback by this and asked, “He eats light bulbs? Can you explain please?” “Well, Teach, every night I hear him tell Momma, “Cut out the light! I want to eat that thang!”

Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson

Question For The Day

Today’s question is…

Name one film that you feel will always stand the test of time for generations to come and inspire countless individuals? (Ex. The Sound of Music)

Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson


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Can Hollywood Please Make More Films Like 2021’s “CODA”?!

I recently watched the 2021 film CODA on Apple+ and was simply blown away. It’s one of those movies that will move you, and then move you again, and again, heart, mind, and soul, that when it finally comes to an end, you feel better about yourself, this world, and life in general, something I think we all need a lot more of right now in life.

Directed by Sian Heder, “CODA” stands for Child of Deaf Adults and stars Emilia Jones as Ruby Rossi. The film centers around her as the only hearing person in a family of deaf individuals, where her life becomes torn between pursuing a gift she’s only just coming to learn she has, that of singing, and of not abandoning a family who depends on her. When Ruby opts to join the school’s choir solely out of pursing an attractive male interest who’s also joining the choir (Miles, played by Ferdia Walsh-Peelo), she’s quickly introduced to its teacher, Bernardo Villalobos (played by Eugenio Derbez), who immediately sees her potential and the prodigy she is. But the more Ruby pursues her gift and a path that can lead her to the Berklee College of Music, the more her deaf family and their fishing business seems to depend on her, leaving her to choose in life what’s more important, the love she has for her family, or the love she has for music?

CODA was such an enlightening and uplifting film. In recent years, I’ve grown weary of what Hollywood considers awards-based contenders, as most have been dreary and dark. In this COVID-bleak world, where the news fills us every, single day with dread and horror stories, where the world seem charged with negativity all the time now, seeing CODA was truly a breath of fresh air and exactly what my soul needed. It was the first artistic film I’ve seen in a long while that truly moved me to incredible tears, not tears of sadness, but tears of joy, one that left me filled with that long after the credits had rolled.

I don’t believe that people need depressing movies with depressing endings right now in life, where crime and violence, greed and manipulation, addiction and its demise, and anything of the sort rule a film’s storyline. What I think people need are a lot more of right now are uplifting films that inspire us to be better people, that drive us to love each other far more than we have been in the past bunch of years. CODA was able to do this for me and then some.

Why films like The Sound of Music, The Shawshank Redemption, It’s a Wonderful Life, Forest Gump, and even E.T. continue to stand the test of time and watched by one generation after another is because they are inspiring and inspire people in general to be better individuals in life. But films like 2021’s The Power of The Dog, where real animal abuse actually occurred on set and where its ending was so very tragic and desolate, will most likely become one more film that’s forgotten about in the years to come. But why a movie like Spider-Man: Far From Home makes over $1.5 billion dollars worldwide and will probably be viewed countless times in decades to come is because it’s inspiring and that’s what people are driving to in droves right now.

CODA was THE most inspiring film I saw in 2021’s slate and one I plan on buying for home watching when it becomes available on Blu-Ray. I pray and hope that one day what Hollywood finally recognizes is that our world needs uplifting films far more than it needs a crop of artistic bleak, depressing, and downtrodden movies that leave a viewer feeling more down than up by the time the credits roll. Thankfully, I will remember CODA long after this pandemic and even this decade has come and gone.

Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson