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LOL Sober

Nelson H.

How to laugh your ass off in sobriety nelsonh.substack.com

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14:50

Ranking the seven deadly sins

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2022/10/18

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes!I’ve been thinking about the seven deadly sins recently. I was at a meeting a few weeks ago where some people mentioned the seven deadly sins, and there is a reference or two to the seven deadly sins in our sober literature.I’ll be honest, I don’t love

5:55

The axe forgets, the tree remembers

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2022/10/13

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes!On the TV show Andor, which I discussed last week, a character used the phrase “The axe forgets, the tree remembers.” He was using it to make the point that people who hurt others go about their business after causing pain, and the people who got hurt

4:23

The "blank check" problem in sobriety

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2022/10/11

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes!I heard an interesting podcast recently about the entertainment industry, called Blank Check. It’s about people in show business who have a huge hit, then basically get a blank check from Hollywood, and the podcast explores what happened next.It’s

4:54

A funny story about fifth-grade me

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2022/10/06

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes!Sometimes I target this newsletter toward a recovery topic. Sometimes I just try to tell an amusing story. This is one of those times.When I was a kid, growing up in Pennsylvania, we started sex education in fourth grade and continued through sixth grade

5:26

The brutality of a back-handed compliment

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2022/10/04

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes!Let me give you an example that most people have encountered in their life, one that exemplifies something I have been struggling with recently.Imagine you put on a new outfit, check it out in the mirror, spin around a few times and make sure your ass

6:26

The slippery slope of taking hotel stuff

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2022/09/29

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes!I stayed at a hotel recently, and I really liked the towels and the lotion bottle in my room. I loved how firm the texture of the towels was, and the lotion was great for my dry face—not too oily, just oily enough. As I packed up to leave, I put one towel

6:18

A great sober thought from a Star Wars android

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2022/09/27

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes!I just started watching Andor, which is the 347th Star Wars spinoff show. Just kidding, it’s only like the 10th Star Wars spinoff.To give a quick mini review, I can already tell Andor will be one of the two best, along side The Mandalorian. It is light

8:15

The most underrated recovery prayer is...

LOL Sober ·

2022/09/22

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes!I don’t pray as much as I should. I wish I could get more into it, and not just do it when people remind me.But honestly, it’s always been a weak part of my program, and deep, deep down, I think the truth is, it’s always going to be a struggle.I have,

5:47

My up-and-down love affair with football

LOL Sober ·

2022/09/20

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes!Football is back, and man, I gotta say, I was very much looking forward to it this year.I’ve had a topsy-turvy relationship with the sport over the years. I’m not even talking about the dangers of the sport itself—I certainly have days where I see a bunch

4:10

The worst part of sobriety? A hilarious answer

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2022/09/15

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes!I read a tweet the other day from a sober person that made me smile.Then I looked at it again, and it made me laugh.Then I read it a third time and it REALLY made me laugh. Now I can’t stop thinking about it.It is so simple, yet so profound and so true…

6:16

Damn, thanks, Justin Bieber

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2022/09/13

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes!I was on the road for work recently, so I was by myself for a few days in a hotel room 1,000 miles away from where I live. One evening, I was driving when a new song from Justin Bieber came on. It’s called “Lonely,” and the lyrics really hit me hard.I’ll

7:42

Clear out that backpack, bro

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2022/09/08

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes!I took my family to Disney this year, and my youngest daughter really wanted a giant beach ball as a souvenir. She saw some kids who had bought one at the hotel gift shop and then had been playing with it in the pool.She wanted to do that, too, but I

6:19

My sobriety, on TV

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2022/09/06

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes!I heard someone share recently that she had a rough Zoom call and had a hard time not exploding at her boss. She wanted to push back on some of the constructive criticism her boss was offering, and also to air out a few things that she thought her boss

6:29

You'll meet 10,000 people in your lifetime

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2022/09/01

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes!I saw a story recently on Medium.com that said the average human being will meet 10,000 other people in their life.At first, I was a little dubious of that statistic, because 10,000 people seems like a lot, doesn’t it?But the more I thought about it, the

9:13

Hmm, what would I do with three sober wishes?

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2022/08/30

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes!There’s a new movie that came out this past weekend called “Three Thousands Years of Longing.” It stars Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton, and it’s basically a reimagining of the idea of a person getting three wishes from a genie. Swinton is the person, Elba

10:20

Sober Review: Better Call Saul

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2022/08/25

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes!I wanted to talk about Better Call Saul, which concluded last week. For those who are unfamiliar, it is a spinoff series from Breaking Bad. If you are unfamiliar with Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad, well, you should stop reading now and go watch both

4:29

The Itching is over

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2022/08/23

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes!The other night, I started itching my lower leg. Like, really itching. Like, itching to the point where later that night, one of my kids asked if I had been wrestling with a puma.What happened? Why was I itching so much? No idea! It might have been a bug

5:16

A sober lesson, courtesy of Maxx Crosby

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2022/08/18

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes!I recently read a Fox Sports profile of Maxx Crosby, who is a great young NFL player for the Las Vegas Raiders. He got sober a few years ago, and it’s a cool story. Here is a link to it.I am fascinated by the concept of being rich and famous and young

6:29

The six steps to GITTIN' RAHTTT

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2022/08/16

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes!I went to a meeting in another state recently, and I desperately needed it. I’d traveled about 1,000 miles over 5 days in a minivan with my wife and three kids. So nerves were frayed. Egos were damaged. Disaster was imminent.Disaster is probably too

5:25

A hilarious letter from a drug company about my...

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2022/08/11

If you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes!I think I have mentioned this before, but this newsletter is not my full-time job. In my full-time job, I use my real name but I am a writer for a pretty big company. So my stories end up getting a nice-sized audience.Well, about a year ago, I wrote

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