Funny Thing About Humor!

Practical jokes are humorous to some people!

I remember when, on the 4th of July in my home town, it was a custom for the men to grow a beard, and there was a contest for the best beard. One fellow had grown a beautiful red beard and some of his “friends” caught him sound asleep and shaved one side of the beard and mustache off! You know they thought that was very funny.

Also knew of a fellow who planted turnip seeds in his friends newly seeded lawn. Pretty funny, huh? Probably not, if you are on the receiving end of that kind of humor!

I don’t like ethnic jokes! Remember when (or maybe you don’t) little moron jokes were all the rage, and then they became Polish jokes. I am not fond of jokes that belittle someone.

I get my biggest laughs, sometimes, from the news. For instance, one day it was reported that a boat on the river was overturned when all the passengers rushed to one side to view a nude beach! I thought that was pretty funny. I still get a laugh out of that when I think about it.

Or the time when we read in the paper about a man who had been found, in bed, dead, with 5 bullet holes! (That is not the funny part!) A week later there was a follow up to the story. It had been ruled a “suicide“! Wow, I have heard of some really bad shots before! But nothing like this!

Some cartoons are very funny. My daughter loves the cartoon showing a snail riding on the back of a turtle yelling “Wheeeee!” And recently I saw one called the first “Senior Moment!” Two dinosaurs sitting on a small island, Noah’s Ark was sailing off in the distance and one of the dinosaurs said “Oh Darn, was that today?”

Naturally you can not talk about humor without thinking of some very funny commercials! Right now, my favorite is the rattlesnake with a baby’s rattle attached to it’s tail. He approaches a rabbit, and when the rabbit catches sight of the rattle he falls over laughing! The Rattler with a look of embarrassment slowly retreats and hides his face. I have seen that so many times and still laugh at it.

I love what I call “O Henry’ type jokes. Typical one is about the timid soul who had gone Lion Hunting for the first time. He was telling a fellow hunter about it and the conversation went like this: “I was walking along in the jungle and it was getting dark, suddenly a lion jumped up in front of me and went ‘ROAR’. You know what? I just messed my britches!” His friend patted him on the shoulder and said he should not feel too bad. “That was a very scary moment and I am sure others were affected the same way.” The timid soul said, “No, I mean just now, when I went “ROAR”!

Now, with the Internet, I receive a lot of fwds. from my cousins in California and from friends. Usually very funny stuff. This week I got a list of interest to the elder citizens! This one I decided was the funniest of all. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night!