Good Jokes for Camping

[chano524]

Everyone's played the spider on the sleeping bag trick, tell me some good ones you've played. My hubby takes life so serious and a good quick scare or laugh always helps set a good mood for or on our trips.

My sister and her husband went with us one trip and she didn't want to walk to the out house so she decided to do her number in the woods. After returning home from our trip I found some pics of a lady squating in the woods(at night) and the only light that shined was on the side of her behind. I had my sister believing it was her and I was gonna show the pics to the rest of the family. The joke went on for about 2hrs during a bbq till she finally pulled me aside and asked me not to show any one them of course I had to laugh and tell the truth. But how fun it was. Just think someone showing what you think are your buns to someone else. HAHA. There's only one rule here, NObody plays the jokes on me.

Tell me some goodies!!!!!

[dthurk]

Everyone's played the spider on the sleeping bag trick, tell me some good ones you've played. My hubby takes life so serious and a good quick scare or laugh always helps set a good mood for or on our trips.
 
 My sister and her husband went with us one trip and she didn't want to walk to the out house so she decided to do her number in the woods. After returning home from our trip I found some pics of a lady squating in the woods(at night) and the only light that shined was on the side of her behind. I had my sister believing it was her and I was gonna show the pics to the rest of the family. The joke went on for about 2hrs during a bbq till she finally pulled me aside and asked me not to show any one them of course I had to laugh and tell the truth. But how fun it was. Just think someone showing what you think are your buns to someone else. HAHA. There's only one rule here, NObody plays the jokes on me.
 
 Tell me some goodies!!!!!

Sorry, I don't think it's funny to intentionally embarrass or belittle another person, nor make them think I will just to see them squirm.  I do appreciate humor, but not at another's expense.  Just my two cents.

[McCampers]

GOSH!  Loosen up a bit.  I don't think there would be humor with out someone paying the price a little bit.  Try your skin on for a change and see if it doesn't feel at least a little bit comfortable.

Laugh at yourself and let others laugh with you.  I think it is a trade off.  You laugh at me, I laugh with you.  I laugh at you, you laugh with me.

[chano524]

I guess you'd have to know my sister AKA The Big Joker. Everyone was suprised I got one in on her. No I don't and would't have pulled it if it were to make someone feel bad, heck then it wouldn't be funny would it.

[AustinBoston]

Sorry, I don't think it's funny to intentionally embarrass or belittle another person, nor make them think I will just to see them squirm.  I do appreciate humor, but not at another's expense.  Just my two cents.

Don't you think, with the way I act at times, that I deserve to be made to squirm a bit now and then?  Some people have earned the embarrasment.

A person who can not laugh at themselves has a problem with their sense of humor.

Austin

[dthurk]

I do have a sense of humer, and it works overtime.  I find the funny side of things in most situations.   There are those who think I'm not serious enough, that I joke around too much.  

But, there is a line that I try very hard not to cross, that of putting another in a situation in which they will be hurt, either by something I would do or say.  IMHO, that is a line that none of us should cross, if anyone here is intimating that I should "lighten up" and cross that line, I would chose not to (at least not intentionally) in the interest of improved human relations.  That's what I'm seeing in the original post.  Maybe the recipient of the joke in the OP was fine with it, but I'm seeing it as potentially hurtfull situation.  Certainly, I wasn't there and I don't know the personalities involved, but in many cases someone can be hurt by something like this and bury it rather than letting others see they are hurt.  This usually results in vengeful, retaliatory humor, which isn't really humor at all.  In the end, I don't want a thick skin, I would hope that I will remain sensitive to the feelings of others.

Please, treat each other nicely, with some amount of compassion and concern.  The world will be a better place for it.

[SpeakEasy]

A lot of camping IS a joke if you stop and think about it. We rush around all day Friday packing things to take with us to spend the weekend away from the home we're paying a fortune for, in the trailer we borrowed money to buy. When we get to our destination we pay more money for the privilege of parking on a 30' x 50' piece of land surrounded by others doing the same thing. We spend the weekend trying to stay dry and warm, trying to get wet, green wood to burn for us, getting mad at the neighbors for being too loud, being crowded into our little box of a camper, discovering what things we forgot and left at home, slapping mosquitoes, and eating food that we hope isn't spoiling in our not-so-cold coolers or Norcolds. On Sunday we take the whole thing apart in order to vacate the site in time to avoid being charged for another night. When we get home we spend hours unpacking and cleaning up, hoping to have enough time to just relax a little before we have to go to bed and prepare for another week of work which we have to do to pay for all of this fun.

I'm just saying all this because it is a lovely Spring Sunday morning and I didn't get to go camping this weekend!!!

-Speak

[AustinBoston]

When we get home we spend hours unpacking and cleaning up, hoping to have enough time to just relax a little before we have to go to bed and prepare for another week of work which we have to do to pay for all of this fun.

And by Tuesday of that week, we're planning the next trip...

Austin

[McCampers]

I agree, it doesn't make much sense.  Camping is kind of a crazy idea, but it sure is fun.  I think it is the wild side of us.  I spent 6 years in the Army Infantry.  We spent most of our life "in the field" and couldn' t wait to get out of the field.  Now I fight for a chance to go back to the woods either to camp or play paintball.  Now, that makes no sense at all, but it is kinda of ironic and funny in a sick demented way.

[kimrb266]

I happen to think the original joke played was funny and I'm sure the girl involved got a kick out of it in the end.  Get it!  In the end.  HAHAHA!
I actually played a joke on a friend and I was the butt of the joke.  One day as we were waiting for a seat in a restaurant, we were talking about tatoos and I told Lance that I had a tatoo on my behind.  I told him the type/size of the tatoo and he wanted to see it because he didn't believe I had one.  I kept him going for almost an hour or more and his wife loved it that I had him going for so long.  He finally started to try and get a peak (by pantsing me) and I finally gave in and told him the truth.  When the truth came out, he still didn't believe me and wanted to see for himself.  He finally got over it and the evening went fine from there.

[JIMMYS]

A rubber snake and some fishing line is a fav of mine. One fake snake, one short piece of line tied to the head of snake and the other tied to a special place: cooler lid, camper door, fridge door, a tree, and the snake must be out of sight, when opened or pulled... the snake appears. Laughter  is the BEST medicine, all who know me: family and friends appreciate this and I fully understand what goes around come around. I would not do this to anyone with a heart condition , anyone else is fare game. I and those close to me will laugh less when I'm no longer around.

[ScouterMom]

take  them on a snipe hunt, of course!

or send them around to other campsites asking to borrow a left-handed smoke shifter.......  :confused:

Of course, we never go on a campout with a new chum without bringing 'lefty' along.... "lefty" is a fake, but realisticly sized plastic left hand with it's own torn sleeve still attached.  We usually tell a few campfire stories about the local guy who accidentally chopped of his own arm, and then drop 'lefty' on the path on the way to the latrine.....  gets a jump out of them every time!  :yikes:

or if you don't want to give them a scare, you can always short- sheet their bed! :p

plastic ants in the sugar, etc....

or a fake spider on a fishing line draped over a convenient tree branch....

run their un mentionables up a flagpole.....

I'll stop now - obviously I have spent way too many years camping with teenage Boy Scouts........ :yikes:



laura

[JIMMYS]

I've used many, lefty is great and I'm now in search of a limb.