Funny Stuff is all around

A lot of manuals have been written over how to do things - from baking a special-recipe apple pie to picking out cool groomsmen gifts. Believe it or not, however, there are actually guides that are so strange you never thought of asking anyone about them - not your best friend, or your mom, or your favorite liquor flask. Yet there have been materials written on the subject and believe it or not, some of these topics actually get released as books.

1. How to Have Sex in the Woods

Who does not know how to have sex in the woods? This knowledge was probably hotwired into our genetic system at birth. Author Luann Colombo, however, thinks sex in the wilderness isn’t as instinctive an activity as it sounds. For this reason, she wrote a book detailing sex essentials that should be part of one’s first aid kit, finding the perfect spot for a love den, making sure one is protected from pesky plants and flies while butt-naked, and other important matters, such as how the elements affect condoms and spermicides.

2. How to Be Pope

This manual, it’s been said, was researched over the last 2,000 years. If you ever feel like becoming pope, this manual will help you navigate around the complexities that come with being the Holy See. For example, what is your papal name for and why must it always sound like the epithet of one who’s as ancient as the great California redwood? Why can’t you be The Terminator rather than John Paul? Are you allowed to enter chatrooms using the nickname Papa Pope? Who takes care of your dirty socks?

3. How to Start Your Own Country

Can you do that? Erwin Strauss says yes, and then proceeds to enumerate how. Strauss reels off everything you need to know about starting and running your own country, from revenue raising to settler recruitment. Why settle for being lord of the manor when you can be king and own a country, too?

4. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

No, this book isn’t about torching people’s hair using engraved zippo lighters. Toby Young narrates how he spent five years looking for love in all the wrong places, and how by doing everything wrong, he finally managed to do the thing that mattered the most right - marrying the woman of his dreams.

5. How to Rent a Negro

I kid you not, there is a book with this title. Damali Ayo contends that all blacks undergo “rental” at some point in their lives. To prove her point, she includes quizzes so readers can gauge what they have been all their lives - the renter or the rented.

If there was ever any doubt in your mind that literature constantly grows, then this list of five should convince you otherwise. Knowledge is not only power, it can be a laughing matter, too.

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Summertime’s almost with us, and surround our house that means it’s time for the annual gathering with all relatives near and far! Unluckily, all the hard work of planning a family reunion has fallen to me this year. With grandparents, four uncles and their four spouses, and eighteen (that’s right, eighteen!) cousins, it’s a great job for an army. But there’s only one of me, so I want all the assistance I can get.

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The first hurdle with planning a family reunion has often been where to go. When you’ve got relations in Colorado, North Carolina, Missouri, Utah, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Florida, there’s actually no such thing as a convenient spot! In an effort to maintain any one group from getting to travel forever, we chose a beautiful location in the hills of Kentucky.

I was relieved to find that there are certainly websites designed to assist poor saps like me who are trying to keep six families happy! I found all kinds of information designed to help me plan our event from the beginning to finish. My first great find was free software particularly designed to assist in planning a family reunion. I downloaded timetables, checklists of things to carry, ideas for icebreakers and games, and all kinds of random tips for making our gathering special. The program also helped me with essential details like invitations, choosing our lodging, deciding on how meals will be served, and coming up with a budget everyone could live with.

Planning a family reunion can certainly turn out to be a blast

I get to admit that sorting out the logistics was tough. But this time that we’ve got our dates and our destination set, I can concentrate on the fun part! I discovered special t-shirts online that we could purchase pre-made or custom design for every person attending the gathering. The best portion is that they’re just $5, and the shipping is free. I also discovered sites where you could order photo buttons, custom invitations, and goofy party favors that have everybody’s pictures on them. I didn’t think planning a family reunion can actually give a little retail therapy!

One of the great fringe advantages of being the one in charge of planning a family reunion has been putting up our own special website. It’s been a clearinghouse of information for the families, and we’ve certainly had a great chance to get to know each other even better as our plans were being formed. It’s been a lot of hard work, but now that the huge event is almost here I am extremely excited, and I believe it’s going to be a terrific time. Who knew planning a family reunion can certainly turn out to be a blast?

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If you are organizing a bachelorette party and want to include some naughty games, the possibilities are endless. The games and activities can just barely stretch into the naughty category or they can be all-out embarrassing dirty games.

Before organizing any of these games, make sure the bride is willing to play long with them and is outgoing enough for the “public naughty” games. You don’t want to put her on the spot or make her feel uncomfortable. However, if she’s game and willing, many of these games are very popular and extremely fun for girls who enjoy a good time.

First up is “Suck for a buck”. Buy a plain white T shirt and letter on it with fabric paint, “suck for a $”, attach Lifesavers candy to it and have the bride-to-be wear it. When you go out that evening, try to solicit men to suck the lifesavers off the T-shirt. At $1 a man, this is a nice way to pay for a few drinks while you’re out as well!

If the bride isn’t comfortable with the Lifesaver idea, have her wear a candy necklace or bracelet instead and have the men simply bite off a piece of the candy necklace/bracelet.

How about the game where you ask the guests which of them would like her virginity back? The women who say yes line up and are each given a maraschino cherry in a bowl. They are told they have to eat the cherry without using their hands. Doesn’t sound so hard, right? In fact, it gets a little tougher and messier when the host then adds a squirt of whipped cream to each bowl and the women have to find and fish out the cherry all without using their hands.

This activity isn’t quite so naughty, but it could be, depending on the bride’s expressions. As she opens her gifts, and this is assuming there are gifts at this bachelorette party, someone writes down all her expressions as she opens each gift. So there might be “oohs” and “aaahs” and “how cutes” coming from the bride. Once she is done opening gifts, someone says, “If we were outside (bride’s name) hotel room on her wedding night, this is what we’d hear” and you then list the various expressions and comments she made while opening her gifts.

Believe it or not, there are hundreds of products you can buy for steamy bachelorette parties. From fake penises to pin on pictures of hunks on the wall to portable stripper poles, it’s all out there. How about a penis piñata? You could make a game out of who gets to hit the piñata. Turn any drinking game into the piñata game. For example, if the guest would normally take a drink, instead they hit the penis piñata. You could fill the piñata with the always- popular candy, but you could also fill it with sex toys, just to add to the spiciness of the game.

If the bachelorette party is going to be held at a bar or somewhere other than home or in a hotel room, there are a myriad of activities you can come up with to entertain the girls. For example, create a series of challenges. One challenge might be to wander up to a man at a bar. If he were munching the bar-supplied nuts, the challenge would be to say, “Mmmmm. I love a man with salty nuts”.

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