50 Reasons To Be Cheerful

[One, Two, Middlesboogie]

1) Marshmallows.
2) That warm tingling you get in your feet when having a really good widdle.
3) The pleasing coolness on the reverse side of the pillow.
4) Sticky toffee.
5) Bouncy Castles.
6) Popping bubble wrap.
7) Being perfectly content to stare at something for no particular reason.
8) Pillow fights.
9) Red Bull.
10) Amusing-shaped potatoes.
11) The wonderful rush of relief upon dicovering that the first, tiniest inkling that something has gone horribly, terribly wrong, was in fact a false alarm.
12) Monochrome films.
13) Finding an unopened bag of crisps in a school corridor.
14) The sound of a single-engined aircraft flying by, heard while lying in a summer field in England, which somehow concentrates the silence and sense of space and timelessness and leaves one with the feeling of something or other.
15) 42" woofers.
16) Pinball.
17) The smell of coffee.
18) Spotting that both people in a heated argument are talking complete rubbish.
19) Finding a pleasantly well-proportioned dog turd and not stepping in it.
20) The light breeze which blows through your armpit hair when you are stretched out sunbathing.
21) Cornflakes.
22) That hearty feeling which comes from walking on the moors with gumboots and cold ears.
23) The horseshoe-shaped rugs that go round loos.
24) Being all excited at suddenly remembering a wonderful piece of gossip that you want to pass on to somebody.
25) Theremins.
26) Finding something really cool that you never noticed before in a videogame.
27) The feeling experienced by listening to a new album by your favourite artist.
28) B-side remixes.
29) The amount of small change found in the lining of an old jacket which just saves your bacon.
30) Sitting on a seat that's all nice and warm from someone else's bum.
31) Nose excreta of a malleable consistency.
32) Mineral water in sports bottles.
33) Pens that change colour when you hold them for two minutes.
34) Devon cream teas.
35) Holding one end of a ruler on a desk and making the other end go bbddbbddbbrrbrrddrr.
36) The funny trilling squeaky noise a cat makes if you poke it in the ribs when it's asleep.
37) Pulling the chain in mid-widdle and seeing if you can finish before the flush does.
38) Finger-painting.
39) Origami butterflies.
40) That cool little riff in a song that you've only just discovered that can only be heard if you listen for it really hard.
41) Days when every single traffic/pedestrian light goes green as you drive/walk up to it.
42) Penguins.
43) Finding a foreign word that sounds as though it ought to be really rude.
44) Sleeping bags.
45) Free CDs with Ministry and Mixmag.
46) At least you're not Lisa Riley.
47) Bombay Mix.
48) Finding something really cool that you'd forgotten you had.
49) Silly String.
50) In your size and colour / Limited edition and by your favourite artist. In the Sale.

[Steve]

those are great and number 11 looks as though it was taken from the meaning of liff.

[Danny]

I thought exactly the same thing as I read it, Steve. Godalming, is it?

Just to reaffirm my knowledge of Liff, I believe that numbers 3, 14, 20, 22, and 31 (and, to a certain extent, 35 and 37) are also taken from the Meaning of Liff...

Hmm... Maybe I ought to post "Things You Ought To Worry About" in competition...

[SeaRex]

Originally posted by One, Two, Middlesboogie:
3) The pleasing coolness on the reverse side of the pillow.
26) Finding something really cool that you never noticed before in a videogame.
27) The feeling experienced by listening to a new album by your favourite artist.
40) That cool little riff in a song that you've only just discovered that can only be heard if you listen for it really hard.
42) Penguins.[/B]

Amen.

[abe22]

They're very clever I like the bubble wrap one. We have a whole roll of it in our shed and if you layed it out it would probably stretch 40 metres in length.

[Majic]

my god you lucky person, i love bubble wrap..... man, if it werent fo rthose what kind of life would i live..... i gotta try the widdle thing...lol

[glukkon_daniel]

Awww, that list just makes me feel oh-so warm and snuggly inside, I could puke.

I wish there were a "gag me" emoticon.

[oddite4456]

I like #43. Basically what makes me most happy in life.