Office Humor

Office Productivity: Why Laughter’s the Best Medicine

Office Humor Makes the Pain Go Away

by Joi

Laugh a Lot
Laugh a Lot Giclee Print
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If you’re trying to get more productivity out of your co-workers – whether they work for you, with you, or above you (hey, it happens… often) – there’s a possibility that you’re approaching it all wrong.  If you stomp, hurl insults, yell, pout, throw things, and sling sarcastic jabs, you’re doing little more than making a perfect jackass out of yourself.  You certainly aren’t accomplishing what it is you set out to accomplish.  Unless, of course, you woke up with the need to transform into a jackass…

Truth be told, you should approach the situation from an entirely different angle – from the funny bone!

We all know how vital laughter is.  Consider the benefits of laughter (as listed on AOL Jobs):

  • Laughter increases productivity
  • Those who laugh out loud are more creative at problem solving
  • Those who laugh have better memory retention
  • Those who laugh experience less stress
  • Laughter is a major coping mechanism
  • Those who laugh together may work more effectively together

There’s a wonderful article on AOL, Boost Workplace Productivity: Make ‘Em Laugh! Click through to read the entire article – it’s a great one.  It actually could be taken as advice for getting more productivity and cooperation from anyone, anyplace – home, work, school…

The Funnest Bookends On the Shelf

Bookends for the Home, Home Office or Office

by Joi


The Flappers Sculptural Bookends

I love quirky, unexpected decorations – whether they’re in the home office, yard, bathroom, kitchen… Anything that makes me smile when I look at it and makes someone do a double-take has to come home with me.

The The Flappers Sculptural Bookends, above, certainly fit the bill. Their from Design Toscano (seriously, do these people make anything that doesn’t make me giddy?).

From the Website:
The Flappers Sculptural Bookends (C. 1920’s) Inspired by John Held, Jr.
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No one epitomized the glamorous era of the Flappers quite like illustrator John Held, Jr. Managing to capture the spirit of newfound freedom in his campy illustrations for The New Yorker, Held’s work was born in 3-dimensions in this pair of heavyweight bookends cast in iron and hand-painted in his signature style. Choose this functional work of decorative art to enliven the décor of any era.

5½”Wx1½”Dx9″H. 3 lbs.

The Perfect TIME for Whimsy

Office Clocks That'll Make You Smile

by Joi

Granted, I spend almost as much time at my computer as I do my coffee maker and, therefore may be biased, but I’m flipping for these Command Key Clocks. Seriously, how great are they?

Each one is just $20 – an absolute bargain for such an original and whimsical office clock.

Product Features

Approximate 10″ square
Requires 1 AA battery (not included)
Attractively packaged for giving

Click through any of the clocks shown in the widget below (or the individual pictures above) and take a closer look. I just can’t tell you how much I love these guys.

Halloween Fun in the Office? Um, Why Not?

by Joi

I’m as bad as any kid, anywhere, when it comes to having fun with Halloween which is kind of odd considering the fact that I’m not just chicken shyte, I’m straight-up chicken shyte. Premium.

Maybe it has something to do with all the chocolate, laughter, fun, and chocolate.

Whatever the chocolate-covered reasons, it’s a fun time of year. You can bring the fun right into your office with these OUTSTANDING Halloween decorations from Design Toscano. They’re ideal for the home, office, or home office – just don’t invite me over because they’d scare the wits out of me. Told you. Premium.

Roswell The Alien Plaque (Above)

Mr. Bone Jangles Skeleton Sitter – Set of Two (Above)

Gaston, the Gothic Gargoyle Computer Climber Statue (Above)

Poison Pen Gargoyle Desk Accessory (Above)

Westminster, the Iron Desk Gargoyle

There. That should be enough for 3 straight weeks of sleeping with one eye open. It won’t break my personal best – 6 months, courtesy of Snakes on a Plane.

If you love Roswell The Alien – and who wouldn’t? – Design Toscano has a line of Roswell products including a garden statue and even a Roswell the Alien end table. Classic.

What Monday Morning Looks Like

by Joi

funny pictures MONDAY MORNING
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Hope you have a great week filled with wonderful surprises – in spite of the fact that it all has to begin with a Monday.

A Whimsical Table that You Have to See to Believe

by Joi

At the risk of stepping on any toes, this may be the most outstandingly original and whimsical table ever made.  The Stilettos Anyone? Sculptural Table is outrageously fun and, let’s face it, kind of sexy.

This table, which gets my “Most Unusual” vote of the month is from Design Toscano.  They have a habit of creating things that make my jaw drop.

Them.  Starbucks. My mother-in-law.

From the Website:

Sure to kick up a little fun, this sassy work of midnight haute couture brings a bit of high-heeled style to home or gallery! The 16″ dia., ⅜” thick, pencil-edged glass sits atop a single, strappy,jet-black patent leather stiletto to become functional art and a daring statement piece!

16″Wx18″Dx21″H

Hot foot your way over to the website, Stilettos Anyone? Sculptural Table, for a closer look.

Monday Hahaha: Cats Act Out the BP Oil Spill

by Joi

Disclaimer:

  • Do not watch this video if you are super-sensitive to profanity.
  • Do not watch this video if your dad works or worked for BP.

Otherwise, here’s a great laugh…. and since it’s Monday, we could use a few.

The Coolest Clock of All Time – You Know I Had To

by Joi

Swing Clocks

As you’ve probably guessed, I have a gravitational pull toward the outrageous and the unusual.  Swing Clocks fit this bill beautifully.

Product Description
When Galileo Galilea first envisioned using the regular motion of the swinging pendulum in a timepiece, he had no idea what implications keeping accurate time would bring us – computers, timesheets, general relativity… Granted, he didn’t create the first pendulum based timepiece.

That honor falls to Christiaan Huygens (the man, not the Saturnian space-probe). See, the pendulum swings at an incredibly predictable rate, as long as the pivot remains still, the force of gravity is constant, and the length of the pendulum is fixed.

Sure, if you want to go all non-Newtonian on us, you can also include distance from a gravity well, but let’s just keep things simple? Anyway, since the motion of the pendulum is highly predictable, we can mark each cycle of the swinging bob as a measure of time, and consequently keep track of our inexorable grind towards the heat-death of the universe. Hooray! Still, it’s usually the pendulum that drives the clock – what if the entire clock was the pendulum? Done and done!

This super-cool Swing Clock mounts on your wall, and sashays back and forth, marking the passage of time. Watch as your friends take hilarious double-takes once they realize the clock is apparently floating and swinging itself. Granted – it’s just a timepiece.

It’s not likely going to help you with a thorough understanding of general relativity, though if you wanted to put one in a spaceship and accelerate it to a fraction below light-speed and return, that might work.

Sigh. I’m just so completely in love with this clock. Anyone can make time fly. A few people can make time stand still. But making it swing? Now that takes a serious set of skills.

See Swing Clocks for more information.

Cell Phone Holder with Mermaid Boobies

by Joi

Well, it’s Friday and you know what that means, don’t you?  Time for mermaid boobies.  I dunno, I guess it’s a new tradition I came up with.

Whatever, I’m running with it.

Product Description:
If your Mp3 player or cell phone is often “lost at sea,” you’ll want to catch “Madeleine the Mermaid” to anchor it into port! Slip your Mp3 player, phone, or remote control into this hand-painted, designer resin sculptural resting place for safekeeping. Though we can’t guarantee they’ll never be castaways again, Madeleine will do her best to provide an artistic lounge for your treasures!

5″Wx2″Dx5½”H. 1 lb.

The immodest, finned beauty at the top of the post is the Madeleine the Mermaid Mp3 or Cell Phone Holder and she’s simply perfect for Mermaid boobies Friday.

Cut me some slack, it’s been a long week.

Click through for a closer look. I know you want to because you’ve had that kind of week, too. Written all over your face.

Office Humor: Sleeping on the Job

by Joi

The guy above looks like I felt during college Algebra class. And Economics class. And Biology….

For more laughs at the expense of poor, unsuspecting sleepy heads, click the link below:

Asleep on the Job

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