Let me tell you about my friend Luke.  He is crazy and insane and I love him to death.  He does things that no normal person would ever consider doing and that what makes him unique, it also makes him the craziest person that I have ever met in my life.  I wouldn’t trade them in for somebody normal though as he is always there if I need a good laugh.

I think the craziest thing that he has ever done is the time that he rented out a self storage Philadelphia unit and decided that he was going to live in it as it was cheaper than rent.  I guess he never took into consideration that it was going to get awful cold in the next month or so.  So I was not at all surprised when one night he knocked on my door asking if he could stay with me for the night so that he would not suffer from hypothermia.

The next day he found himself an apartment and gave up a home he had had for a month.  That’s my crazy Luke in a nutshell.

I find that most people visit the same types of websites such as email sites, social sites and perhaps a news site or two.  It seems that just like in real life, people are creatures of habit and visit the same places all the time.

Today I encourage you to try something different.  Turn on your web browser and go to your favorite search engine.  Try doing a web search for both of the topics below:

The first search you make should be for strange news.  Why?  You’ll see.  If you visit some of the sites that come up in the results, you will find that your time will slip by reading some interesting stories.  The stories you will find will be a lot more exciting than you average news paper and may make you laugh uncontrollably. 

The second search you should try is music gossip.  I think you will find the stories here interesting as well, especially if you read tabloid newspapers.  You can find normal stories such as who is dating who, as well as the stars that are having babies.  If you are more into the scandal type stories, you can find it here too.

So I challenge you to look for new things everyday: start right now.  There is so much information on the Internet, you have no excuse as to why you are not learning something new or something that will challenge you each day.

I can remember as a child using knock knock jokes all the time.  It was really easy to come up with those types of jokes, and even though sometimes my creations were not really that funny, my family always humored me and laughed at them anyways.  There seemed to be the traditional ones such as:

Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Lettuce
Lettuce who?
Lettuce pray.

Knock,knock
Who’s there?
Banana
Banana who? (Repeat the above three or four times)
Knock knock
Who’s there
Orange
Orange who?
Orange you glad I didn’t say banana?

Now that I am older and have some children, it is back to telling knock knock jokes.  In my research to teach my four year old some jokes, I realized how bad knock, knock jokes used to be.  I also understand the real reason why my parents used to laugh at my jokes: there is nothing funnier than watching your child trying to tell you a funny joke - that alone is priceless.