Jim Wang instituted “Funny Camp”–a pause in our busy days . . . for humor, a joke, a funny story. Here is our “Funny Camp” Guest Host Amber and her take on “Funny Camp.”
–by Amber Zheng
Two ladies who didn’t yet speak English well came to America. They stayed at a motel during their trip. Then, one night, a rat appeared in their room. They freaked out, but they were too scared to get close to the rat and couldn’t think up any way to make it disappear. So they decided to call the front desk for help. Unfortunately, they didn’t know how to say the word “rat” in English. This ultimately leads to the following conversation when they talked with the motel staff at the front desk:
Front desk: “Hello, this is front desk. How may I help you?”
Guests: “Hi, do you know Tom and Jerry? Jerry is here!”
–Edited by Trey Lucatero
Boys get painted eggs, chocolate, and candies from girls. Men get painted eggs and shots of alcohol. I did not have a chance to “enjoy” this tradition much growing up. I live in the capital city where this tradition isn’t as widespread. Most of my family lives in smaller towns or villages which gave me the opportunity to experience this yearly torture four times.
Don’t get me wrong; some biographies are good. However, some biographies like Kim Kardashian’s Selfish, which contains nothing but her selfies, should be burned. Mostly, a biography exists because it can inspire people. However, Celebrity Biographies often offer very little under the cover. Do we really need selfies of Kim Kardashian? Remember, in our hypothetical situation, we are in a severe winter snowstorm, and we need to warm ourselves to fend off freezing. Those Celebrity Biographies are usually heavy (in weight), usually more than three hundred pages. Just one burning copy could keep us warm for hours.
I know many people believe in the zodiac and fortune telling. However, think about it seriously. We are now in a huge huge crisis that involves the existence of human beings in a snowstorm. At this moment, all kinds of zodiac and fortune-telling things would not work anymore. The only thing that we need to focus on, at this moment, is survival. If you’re about to freeze to death, do you really need your fortune told?
The reasons were mostly concentrated on the fact that Twilight is a poorly written book. According to one respondent, “Twilight promotes abusive relationships and is just bad literature in general.” The second most popular choice involves encyclopedias and dictionaries. The reasons are, “They have the most paper, so they have the most fuel”; “They are very big and fairly replaceable.” Surprisingly, the third most popular choice for burning for warmth and survival is the Bible. The reasons include more are available “in the future” and “the Bible is thick and burnable.” And, one of Henry’s personal favorite responses is “Burn Mein Kampf.”
e incredibly successful. The Red Sox went without a victory from 1918 to 2004. To many Bostonians, this curse was no joke as the die-hard fans lived their entire lives passionately detesting the Yankees. The curse was the spark that ignited the greatest rivalry in sports between the Yankees and Red Sox. As a child, many things were engrained into my brain, but one of the most vivid lessons was the absolutely necessary hatred of the New York Yankees. To this day, despite the curse’s ending, I loathe the Yankees, other New York sports teams, and often the city itself.
y household. We were all devastated! We had come so close to victory but were denied victory by our greatest enemy.
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under your knee cap and lift the edges up so your knees look like two smiling faces, thus holding the patella up. This type of pain can be also caused by not enough strength in your quadricep muscle. 
In this case, you have to take a long piece of tape and place it with the contour of the muscle, around the knee, down. The tape has to be separated to two parts at the end. Otherwise you won’t be able to put it around the knee.
x became a top team in the league after its victory in the 1917 World Series, Charles Comiskey, the owner of the team, was known for underpaying his players. White Sox players resented Comiskey. Because the players were unable to leave their contracts, they turned to gamblers in an effort to make some extra cash. In return for a huge payoff, eight White Sox players decided to fix the World Series. They intentionally lost as large bets kept piling up for Cincinnati. After seven games, the Cincinnati Reds won the Series. The public caught wind of the massive scandal in the 1920 season, and a grand jury assembled to investigate. All eight players were acquitted in a criminal trial in 1921, but they did not escape unscathed. The Commissioner of Baseball, Kenesaw Landis, issued a statement following the acquittal. He said, “Regardless of the verdict of juries, no player who throws a ball game, no player who undertakes or promises to throw a ball game, no player who sits in confidence with a bunch of crooked ballplayers and gamblers, where the ways and means of throwing a game are discussed and does not promptly tell his club about it, will ever play professional baseball.” All eight players were indefinitely suspended from playing professional baseball. The huge scandal was dubbed the Curse of the Black Sox.A World Series victory had eluded Chicago for 76 years. In 2005, the curse was finally broken as the Chicago White Sox swept the Houston Astros and won the championship!
