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I have a problem with the music minister at my church (well,mostly it's my problem)

he keeps saying things that are, well, funny to me. It's not really appropriate for me to laugh though (because I am at church) but nobody really understands why I am giggling anyway (except my husband)

things he has said this week

"you have to learn to hit the bong" (we are singing a song where the tenors sing "bong, bong, bong," during one part and they were coming in a beat too late)

"it's magic when we all get off together" (we weren't cutting off on the same beat, sopranos were hanging on a half beat longer than anyone else)

"don't breath so hard or they will know you are coming" (talking about getting onto the risers during the dark, because we are supposed to sneek in)

now, someone out there has to feel my pain, not being able to laugh at these really really funny statements.

Have you ever said something that didn't "come out right"?

Have you ever been in a situation where someone said something hilarious, but it was innappropriate for you to laugh?

How do I keep from snickering when he says stuff like that? (believe me, everyone else is oblivious but me and hubby)

Develop an intense burning hatred of his voice.

Giggle Loop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Murdoch#The_Giggle_Loop)

I often find my self laughing at things when I shouldn't be. Yeah, it's embarrasing, but if you cover it up or laugh silently, I garuntee nobody will notice or care. Or, you could just explain why it's funny, and cause the whole congregation to break into a giggling fit.

I say you should stop worrying about it and just laugh.

I can safely say that I would have laughed. I would have laughed my arse off. And I would've been unapologetic about it. Maybe even added a little tummy-slap to the person next to me when they stared at me like "What are you doing?!" as if to say "What? Don't you get it?"

But then, that's me....I very rarely encourage anybody else to follow through on MY advice.....

I would have laughed, too. For the last one ("don't breath so hard or they will know you are coming") I would've grabbed my chest and said some shit like "Oh God, I can't stop breathing hard, oh yes, oooh yes. . . ." Y'all get the point, I assume.

ahahahaha

I tend to do that alot, but usually realize what I'm saying. One time was different when I was doing some improv up on stage...someone was fixing a light bulb, handed it to me, and I said "ohh...the long thin ones. My favorite"...realized what I said, and choked back some giggles.

"you have to learn to hit the bong/it's magic when we all get off together/don't breath so hard or they will know you are coming"

Sounds like some kind of R&B song...

"you have to learn to hit the bong/it's magic when we all get off together/don't breath so hard or they will know you are coming"

Sounds like some kind of R&B song...
it really does.............:eek:

For the last one ("don't breath so hard or they will know you are coming") I would've grabbed my chest and said some shit like "Oh God, I can't stop breathing hard, oh yes, oooh yes. . . ."Fast way to get punted off the choir, though... ;)

I feel your pain, Smunkeeville... I think I could have controled myself until the minister wasn't around... But then I'd have busted a gut.
:D

Giggle Loop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Murdoch#The_Giggle_Loop)
Ah, Jeff. Genius.

it really does.............:eek:
Up in hurrrr, yo...

(I should have been a rapper)

Now that would be amusing!

Why are you singing a song about bongs in church?:D

It's a Christmas song, the tenors do the "bongs" and the altos do the "fa la la" and the sopranos get to sing all the fun stuff...........

I not only feel your pain, I'm in a very very similar situation myself. I've always been really bad about things striking me funny and not being able to keep myself from laughing. Particuarly when singing. I sit with my mother-in-law and she tends to have the same problem. So we have our whole corner of muffled laughter whenever the director says something funny. Our choir director is from Finland, and often puts things in... not exactly the english everyone else uses. Things I remember off the top of my head that he's said lately...

"120 isn't very much faster than 60! It's only... uh... twice as fast..."

and the guy can't say V's at all, so when he rewrote a song the other week, he wrote it with

"Pay your wows before Him..."

I scratched out "wows" and wrote "vows" but I couldn't get it out of my head, and when we were singing it in the church service, I still broke down briefly into fits of stifled giggles.

Also, we have a song for the Christmas service that has this bit where everyone sings "Ding dong ding, ding dong ding, ding dong, ding dong, ding-a-dong ding..." I mean, could ANY of you get through that with a straight face???

*starts laughing* I mean, I can't even think about it without laughing... oh dear... this isn't helping...

I've thought of more.

so we were in Econ one day, trying to take my usual nap, but the prof insists on talking too loud (I know, right? how inconsiderate of him). So he's talking about little house on the prarie (I have no idea why) and I swear to this day that he said they should stuff the walls with weed. So we started laughing because he kept saying it, and still didnt enunciate enough to say "wheat". So we wrote a story of him as a drug lord. Mind you, he was standing about 5 ft away from me and my friends as we laughed for the next 25 minutes.

then there was the day I was on my lap top, not paying attention, and my dad yelled "Buck him off!" at the TV. He couldnt figure out why I was laughing.

hmm...I'll return with more if I think of them

I have a problem with the music minister at my church (well,mostly it's my problem)

he keeps saying things that are, well, funny to me. It's not really appropriate for me to laugh though (because I am at church) but nobody really understands why I am giggling anyway (except my husband)

things he has said this week

"you have to learn to hit the bong" (we are singing a song where the tenors sing "bong, bong, bong," during one part and they were coming in a beat too late)

"it's magic when we all get off together" (we weren't cutting off on the same beat, sopranos were hanging on a half beat longer than anyone else)

"don't breath so hard or they will know you are coming" (talking about getting onto the risers during the dark, because we are supposed to sneek in)

now, someone out there has to feel my pain, not being able to laugh at these really really funny statements.

Have you ever said something that didn't "come out right"?

Have you ever been in a situation where someone said something hilarious, but it was innappropriate for you to laugh?

How do I keep from snickering when he says stuff like that? (believe me, everyone else is oblivious but me and hubby)


Rest assured, I'd have been laughing so loud no one would have noticed your giggles. I wonder if this guy's already learned to hit the bong? :D

I would laugh long and loud - even if it might be inappropriate. And inappropriate not because it's in a church but because it could make that guy feel bad...

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Any Catholics will know what I am talking about...

I was at a funeral and the priest was burning incense in a metal container that is at the end of a long chain. He would spread the incense around while saying prayers. As he was swinging the contraption around, I was reminded of a Howard Stern rant (from that same morning) where he was making fun of priests and their "smoking pocketbooks". I looked at my brother and saw by his smirk that he was thinking the same thing and we both found ourselves cracking up at my grandmother's best friend's funeral. Luckily we covered it up by acting like we were crying. Very inappropriate.

Any Catholics will know what I am talking about...

I was at a funeral and the priest was burning incense in a metal container that is at the end of a long chain. He would spread the incense around while saying prayers. As he was swinging the contraption around, I was reminded of a Howard Stern rant (from that same morning) where he was making fun of priests and their "smoking pocketbooks". I looked at my brother and saw by his smirk that he was thinking the same thing and we both found ourselves cracking up at my grandmother's best friend's funeral. Luckily we covered it up by acting like we were crying. Very inappropriate.
I was at a friends grandfathers funeral, and the priest accidentally hit me and spilled the thing. I giggled, then got a firm elbow jab to the spleen from my girlfriend at the time.

I don't know how everyone isn't laughing at the music director. What's sad is, he might be trying to make you all laugh and is dissapointed that it's not going over. (music directors are kinda subversive cats...even the old ones...)

I have a friend who has instilled in me a problem with this one-

When trying to demonstrate someones prowress (or lack) with the ladies, there is this phrase-

"(It's not like) he has to beat the ladies off with a stick."

To which his response is, "I think they do that on their own."

Giggle Loop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Murdoch#The_Giggle_Loop)
When I saw the title, I hoped no one would do this, that I would have the chance to get it out.

Smunkeeville, your post reminded me of a friend from junior high who was in chorus. They were singing that bells christmas song, and he told them, when they were singing the "ding dong, ding dong" bit at the end, "gentlemen, hold your dongs!"

Oh boy...

One time there was this guy hanging around us while myself and a couple of friends were out to lunch. he made a comment that sounded quite strange and it was about vacuum cleaners, and for some reason I said:

"Shut up before I [take a vaccum] and suck the gayness out of you."

I regret ever saying that.

I don't know how everyone isn't laughing at the music director. What's sad is, he might be trying to make you all laugh and is dissapointed that it's not going over. (music directors are kinda subversive cats...even the old ones...)
I think he got the bong comment, because he kinda half smiled,but when he saw me snickering he gave me this look that was awfully scary.
As for nobody else laughing, we are supposed to have pure thoughts (I really do try, but sometimes it's hard...I mean difficult)

I have a problem with the music minister at my church (well,mostly it's my problem)

he keeps saying things that are, well, funny to me. It's not really appropriate for me to laugh though (because I am at church) but nobody really understands why I am giggling anyway (except my husband)

things he has said this week

"you have to learn to hit the bong" (we are singing a song where the tenors sing "bong, bong, bong," during one part and they were coming in a beat too late)

"it's magic when we all get off together" (we weren't cutting off on the same beat, sopranos were hanging on a half beat longer than anyone else)

"don't breath so hard or they will know you are coming" (talking about getting onto the risers during the dark, because we are supposed to sneek in)

now, someone out there has to feel my pain, not being able to laugh at these really really funny statements.

Have you ever said something that didn't "come out right"?

Have you ever been in a situation where someone said something hilarious, but it was innappropriate for you to laugh?

How do I keep from snickering when he says stuff like that? (believe me, everyone else is oblivious but me and hubby)

Laugh. Jesus has a sense of humor. :)

I will never forget that school day: we read a text in our English lesson and the one reading it out stopped at the word "bald", because it was new to us. Our English teacher (bald on top of his head with grey curls round his head...his looks are undescribable. I always thought he's a clown without red nose...) always refused to give us German translations of English words - so in this case he just patted his head ...
The whole class was giggling, but it wasn't inappropriate, cause the teacher was smiling too (he had a rather good sense of humour for a teacher... he MUST have been a clown!)

However, one girl - she just didn't stop laughing. She kept on laughing for (yes! we were counting!) 90 minutes without break. The problem was that our English lesson finished 5 minutes later and we had a difficult math-exam afterwards. She just kept on laughing and the whole class failed the exam.

hmm.. i might be going slightly off-topic but it fits the wheat/weed post..

so, i'm german. and i spent a year as an exchnage student in iowa, US. i went through a lot of that "so, does your king hitler still live?" "do you still have to do the heil hitler greeting to teachers and other authority figures?" and a whole lot of other stupid nazi-related questions. but i learned to deal.

that one day, though, i went to have lunch with a bunch of friends at school, got myself a tray with food and one of those cans of juice one got with it. just at the moment we all sat down and there was this collective grabbing of the jiuce cans and opening them, one of the friends asked

"so, do you like juice?"
i said "no, not really, but, you know..."
everybody just gave me the weirdest looks and the talking kinda stopped and everything. i was embarassed like hell and couldn't quite figure it out but thought it might have offended them that i discredited one of their amrican products or whatever, they were weird that way sometiems when i really didn't like typical USian stuff.

so i hasted to clear things up and went on and on about how it is different in germany, and i was okay with it there, all different kinds, too, but that i just didn't like the american kind..let's just say the looks grew more disgusted and more weird with every word i spoke.

it wa sonly until i said "and i just really don't like it canned" that somebody started to laugh and i got the chance to know what had been going on. thing is, us germans aren't capable of distinguishing between a voiced and an unvoiced "s" at the end of a word. so it was only me who had had the illusion that they were talking about juice. every native speaker knew that the word had actually been "jews". and had grown rathe runcomfortable with me saying that i didn't like them, especially the american kind, and all that.

er..yes. learned that lesson for life. i actually am pretty good at doing the voiced/unvoiced thing now. lots of practice, but it..pays..sometimes.

This made me giggle-
http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/19/b70-9839
but the timing wasn't innapropriate. Mostly it was the thought that someone in the chain was aware of it and was hoping 'they'd totally get away with it...'

I have a problem with the music minister at my church (well,mostly it's my problem)

he keeps saying things that are, well, funny to me. It's not really appropriate for me to laugh though (because I am at church) but nobody really understands why I am giggling anyway (except my husband)

things he has said this week

"you have to learn to hit the bong" (we are singing a song where the tenors sing "bong, bong, bong," during one part and they were coming in a beat too late)

"it's magic when we all get off together" (we weren't cutting off on the same beat, sopranos were hanging on a half beat longer than anyone else)

"don't breath so hard or they will know you are coming" (talking about getting onto the risers during the dark, because we are supposed to sneek in)

now, someone out there has to feel my pain, not being able to laugh at these really really funny statements.

Have you ever said something that didn't "come out right"?

Have you ever been in a situation where someone said something hilarious, but it was innappropriate for you to laugh?

How do I keep from snickering when he says stuff like that? (believe me, everyone else is oblivious but me and hubby)


Did you ever wonder if your minister knows what he is saying, but has a wicked sense of humour?

Did you ever wonder if your minister knows what he is saying, but has a wicked sense of humour?

the more he says stuff like that the more I wonder, he says at least 5 things a week that are mildly inappropriate to laugh at, nobody can mess up that much:p

anyway this weekend we are doing a Christmas program with the first hour being a broadway style musical (which I have a solo and lines and everything in) so I suppose I should be worried about important stuff (like falling off the stage or fainting or puking or something) and the 2nd hour is a Living Christmas Tree, so I am sure I will faint in that or lock my knees and pass out or something :(