Sunday, March 28, 2010

this week's guffaws

Okay, consider yourself forewarned:  this week's round of laughter definitely contains "salty language," and the theme of getting knock-your-socks-off-drunk is at the heart of the humor.  If you're okay with this level of comedy, then this is your kind of post.  However, I just may be one of the last people to have been told about these videos, but thanks to a fantastic friend and the joys of the interwebs, I have been cracking up for days.

Drunk History.  Do those two words seem like they don't belong together?  Well, if you have somebody who gets crazy drunk and then proceeds to tell what they know about an historical event to a person with a video camera, you've apparently got a recipe for hilarity.  Yes, you must check them out:

First, forget everything you know about Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, because this is clearly the way it went down:




How about the whole Ben Franklin and the kite and the key and the lightning storm? Yeah, we thought we knew the story, but maybe not...



And honestly, this is my favorite one. This guy had me cracking up from the first few seconds!



Okay, I'm dying now, so I've got to stop, but if you want to see more, there a bunch here on youtube, and they make for the most fun history lessons I've ever had!


Thinking I would have liked history classes a lot more if they were like this,

1 comment:

  1. OMG! That is so funny! All I can say is...."Write it down....(you know the next part)! Now if you'll excuse me, "I have to throw up." (That was gross)!

    P.S. Absinthe is the devil!

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