Small Things That Make Me Enormously Happy
Submitted by lukeprog on Sun, 07/25/2004 - 03:10
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- Air guitar
- Giant Pretzels
- Scratch 'n Sniff
- Harry Nillson - The Puppy Song
- Churning hot sand between my toes on a beach
- A cute chick smiling or laughing
- Dried fruit
- My dog Max
- Wind in my face
- Bad movies failing at the box office
- Telling a joke that only I understand
- Xiao Xiao
- Throwing harmless things at my friend
- Making a song of a recently uttered phrase
- Changing accents in mid-sentence
- Quoting from obscurity
- Peanut butter
- Evil Penguin
- Extremely cold, fresh drinking water
- Buttered banana bread
- Icicles long enough to eat or use as a sword
- The crackle of firewood
- The line "I love it when you call me big poppa"
- Celebrity impersonations
- Bonzai trees
- Picking up print with Silly Putty
- Shaking a pine tree branch covered with snow
- Strongbad
- Lists
- Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons
- Non sequitur speech in a casual conversation
- Cowboy hats
- Pantomimes in white makeup and black clothes
- A field of windmills
- Light shining through massive clouds in the distance
- Puppies
- Quiet rain
- A well-fluffed pillow
- Coming across another instance of the 'crunching metal' sound effect from Streets of Sim City that is apparently used in every movie, show, and TV ad
- Laughing about nothing and then laughing harder about laughing about nothing
- Swimming
- Fighting stick figures
- Butterflies
- Humming
- Whistling
- Velamints
- Blitz flavored mints
- Remembering movies I've seen so I can add them to my list
- Bare midriffs
- Trying to slam a door shut in a small room with no windows or other doors and watching the air pressure stop it at the last second no matter how hard I swing it.
- Doing the 'snap-snap-clap' hand move, quickly and repeatedly.
- Typing a random letter combo ("odf", for example) into the database search component of foobar2000 and finding cool songs I like in my mp3 collection but forgot existed.
- Banging random chords and notes on my piano until I find something that sounds good.
- Puppies.
- artificial islands
Author Comments:
Several items stolen from xfanatic50 and stumpy.
Cloned From:
I find a baby's laughter gives one immense happiness too...
And so does making strange noises and scaring people away when off to a jungle trip :)
One for me: reading lists about the things that make people happy. I think I'll clone this one - thanks!
The "snap-snap-clap" move has always seemed a bit belligerent to me, especially because it often seems to be done by guys who also call people "captain," "chief," or "boss." That may just be my hangup, however. ;)
Johnny Waco
Wow, new Chinese architecture is incredible.