I've told this one before...Jim and I stood up 3 weeks after we were married for a friend's wedding. Well my friend was so short under 5 ft. Jim decided to dance on his knees with her. He split the seat of his tuxedo. Everyone roared.

My husband had the tip of his index finger reattached after an accident. It never looked the same and appeared slender compared to his other fingers. He told our grand kids they lost his finger and had to sew a woman's finger on instead to this day they all believe he had a woman's finger.

We have three gown 'man childs" here, and they would always pull pranks on Greg. He4 was so good natured about it all. My mike was the worst offender.

One night before Halloween Greg had bought one of those singing candy dishes for the kiddies. Motion activated. He set it one night not known by any of us. See mike used to lucrk around corners to get a rise out of Greg, suprising him, and the boys would laugh and laugh, well this night Greg has set that candy dish turned out the lights, and we went to bed. He knew mike would be down for a snack as he always was at about 1 am as all young men are! He came down the stairs, turned on the light, and the candy dish went off. Mike SCREAMED like a girl, ran up the stairs and I don't think he hit one of them! lol He NEVER tried to 'surprise Greg again, and they both got a good laugh from it, FOR YEARS!

THANKS FOR THAT MEMORY!!! I'll have to tease Mike about it!! HUGS Diane

Well he did a really great Sean Connery imitation, ( only for me if you know what I mean). One time I aske him to do it in public and he was so embarrased! He was just a funny kind of guy always joking around. He once took over the microphone at our friends reception and started calling a square dance! Funny thing is people loved it and had a great time. ( Pretty sure that was liquid courage.) He also had this amazing talent for rhyming. No matter what anyone said he would make it into some kind of ryhme.

Miss it all so much.

Robin

To look at Jerry you would expect him to be very serious but he was soooo funny - and had a dry sense of humor - I so miss that. He loved to take pictures of himself with statues - Ronald McDonald, the Simpsons - movie theater marques, etc. We would be watching TV and he would be gone for a while, and return with a colander over his head like a helmet if it was a war movie (his favorite), or a bow tie if it was a romantic movie. He made up weird lyrics to songs, loved to read the comics to me, enjoyed seeing people laugh (especially me). I'm looking at a groucho nose and glasses, and a picture of him wearing them by my computer. We went on a neighbors cruise with 4 other couples from NJ and he had everyone wear groucho glasses for the picture. He loved for people to have a good time. Great topic, but I'm crying now remembering all the silly times with him - breaks my heart I miss him so.

My man had an uncanny ability to make light of any situation which invariably included humor. So I, and everyone who knew him, has a funny story. Today, we call them his "isms." Even on our last car ride to the hospital he was trying to minimize the berevity of the situation and was making fun of himself. It was when he got quiet that I realized the seriousness of the situation. Six minutes later he was gone.

But on a lighter note.....we used to own a comedy club, which was right up his alley. He was not a performer, we were the business side of a partnership. Our partner was a comedian, as well as a mail-order minister. When we got married we chose a quaint, little chapel, high in the Rocky Mountains in a "ghost town." The event was VERY casual and the invitation even stated "shorts required." Hubby went fishing that morning and wore those same shorts to the ceremony. Our partner presided over the ceremony and made the event comedy themed, unknown to us until that afternoon. The guests wore red foam noses, and the minister dressed as Groucho Marx. At the end of the ceremony, instead of saying "you may kiss the bride" he said "you may pie the bride" and handed out whipped cream pies. Without even a one second hesitation, I was pied! and in shock. When I gathered my wits I got him better than he even imagined. The day and the years just kept getting better. Our friends and family are still talking about it. His legacy is laughter, and he still brings me smiles.

You asked for it!! Here is one of the funny things Nick did. Not only does it show his wonderful sense of humor but it also shows how he adapted and accepted the changes to his body due to the bladder cancer than finally took his life.

Warning: Do not read any further if you are easily offended. It is funny but probably not for everyone. I apologize if Nick & I offend anyone here.

Due to bladder cancer, Nick had to have his entire bladder removed. They took a small portion of his small intestine, attached one end to the 2 ureters that extended from his kidneys. This was put through a hole in his side. For the rest of his life he had to wear an ostomy bag to replace his bladder. He also wore a leg bag at work so he didn't have to go empty the smaller bag so often. When he did empty the bags he would just hoist his leg & foot up onto the urinal and undo the spout that was hidden under the long pant leg. Needless to say most men do not need to use the urinal in this fashion. Usually both of their feet remain on the floor. One day a man who worked in the building asked him, "I have wondered about you! What are your doing when you do that?" Nick laughed and replied, "Well, when you have something that long it is easier to just run it down your pant leg than to double it over."

LostCookie and Darlene, you both had me laughing out loud.
Thanks,
Paula

My Lee would sometimes without meaning to sneeze and say achewy. It made me laugh so hard I almost fell over everytime it happened.

My husband would imitate Donald Duck,he would enertain all the kids and our grandkids with his Donald Duck imitation.It would be so funny,we could be somewhere and there would be a little kid around,he would start his Donald Duck act,and the look on the little kids face was priceless,he would always crack those little kids up.
Paula thanks for the memories.
Hugs Sadie

My husband made up silly songs for all the kids--he could make anything into a song--and the kids and grandkids loved it--he would make them up as he went--they were always hilarious. He rocked them to sleep as babies singing silly songs he made up. It was just part of who he was. Thanks for this post--I love remembering those things about him.

My hubby Will had to go to the Emergency Room for a TIA. When they released him from ER they wheeled him by wheelchair into the very crowded waiting room. He had a blue blanket folded up on his stomach to keep him warm. As we approached the crowd of patients waiting to be seen..he said, "It's a boy!" The waiting room howled laughing. :)

Joe loved people. He even loved his co-workers in a regional law enforcement dispatch center. He was always telling them jokes or playing some kind of game with them. They loved him.

One day when one of the workers was out on a smoke break, he put a tiny feather on her computer keyboard. When she returned and saw the feather, she asked where it came from. Joe said a bird had got trapped inside the building. She continued to look up every so often, looking for the bird. A few days later, Joe put another, bigger feather on her keyboard. When she came back and saw it, she said DID THE BIRD FLY OVER HER DESK? and everyone answered YES, IT DID. SORRY YOU MISSED IT. Joe pulled this on her a couple more times. She was a sucker. She never figured it out and no one ratted on Joe! It was SO funny!

Since Robin mentioned liquid courage, my MIke sure had it at times. He used to imitate Mango from Saturday NIght Live at parties and people thought it was hilarious because it was spot on. I miss my Mango.

Well, it wasn't always on purpose, but my husband would get himself into the most awkward (and funny) situations. We were staying at a hotel in Memphis. There were vending machines just as you got off the elevator and he decided to get a snack. It was one of those machines where the food drops off a roly poly spring like looking thing, down to the bottome where you have to push a door in to retreive them. He put his money in, a bag of goodies fell down to the bottom and he reached in to get them. He had his hand halfway out when he dropped the bag and it landed at the bottom again. So he just reached back in.....but who knew those things spring shut and spring shut very tightly. He couldn't get his hand out. So there he was, stuck with his arm in the vending machine and a crowd was forming at the elevator exits. I ran up to the front desk for help. Told the lady what happened and I guess she didn't quite hear me. We were walking back toward the vending machines when she asked me how old the little boy was. I told her 51. She hollered "Oh sweet Jesus!" and took off running. She ended up having to call the maintenance man in to break into the machine.....all the while my husband was stuck and crowd getting bigger......and I could NOT stop laughing! (Just ONE of his predicaments.....)