TheBanyanTree: Pillow talk with droll husband

[Julie Anna Teague]

That's funny.  I always find that when I describe a funny conversation 
between my husband and me, I need to give some back story to make it 
understandable.  For instance, my husband and I have a running joke of 
being the last one of us left alive and left to write the other one's 
obituary.  Sounds morbid, maybe, but we find it hilariously funny to 
throw out terrible facts which, if the other one were not nice, the 
last one standing would put in the obit.  Awful nicknames are always 
good for a laugh.  For instance:  "Lee 'Stinky' Schmid, gone to be with 
his maker. Stinky leaves behind his much younger and now fabulously 
wealthy wife, Julie."

Funny how jokes build over the course of a lifetime with someone.  One 
day this Spring we were watching birds at our bird feeder and I was 
reading in my bird book about the Brown Thrasher that we saw.  "Says 
that the Brown Thrasher can whistle up to 1000 different tunes."  
Husband and I started whistling all kinds of famous "whistling" tunes 
we could think of, which was funny in itself.  But then I whistled 
"Bridge over the River Quai" and husband yells, with a funny accent, 
"THERE WAS NO WHISTLING!"  This was a running joke between us since we 
had watched a documentary on survivors of that ordeal in which one 
older gentleman said how much he hated the movie about it because, 
"There was no whistling!  You would've been killed if you whistled!"  
So, no, the documentary was in no way funny.  And the fact that I 
whistled the song later wasn't particularly funny, but all put 
together, with my husbands old-guy accent thrown in, had us cracking 
up.  Makes absolutely no sense to anyone else, though.

Julie

Quoting Janice Money <pmon3694 at bigpond.net.au>:

> To set the scene:
> 1. Middle son, Sean, married Anastasia on May 21st and then the pair had a
> week's honeymoon in Thailand.  Prior to the wedding there was at least
> bi-weekly telephone contact with Sean.  Since then it's down to about once a
> fortnight or less.
> 2. Husband is a funny bloke and a tease.
> 3. The formula, "I think x loves y more than s/he loves me/us," is part of a
> family game.  For instance, Toby the dog likes to disappear under Jimbo's
> bed in the evening rather than lie at husband's feet though husband is the
> one who feeds and walks him.  Husband can say, "I think Toby loves Jimbo
> more than he loves me".
>
> Conversation on getting into bed last night.
>
> ME:  I wonder how Sean is.
> HUSBAND:  Sean who?
> ...
>
> ME:  I think Seano loves Anastasia more than he loves us.
> HUSBAND: Yeah.  All these years he's just been using us.
> ME: As his parents?
> HUSBAND:  Yeah.  Using us as his parents.
> ...
>
> ME: Maybe he's just content.  I hope he's content.
> HUSBAND: How would you know?
>
> Janice
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