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Want To Promote Your Blog? Comment Here
2007-05-05 21:45:00 Commenting on blogs is a nice thing to do. It builds community, it lets the blog owner know who's reading, and you can sneak in a link to your own blog, which search engines count as a link and increase your blog's ranking. Everybody wins. Except—gasp!—I recently found out that Blog ger, WordPress, and Moveable Type default to ignoring any links included in comments. I got the information from Randa Clay Design's posting on "I Follow" (go there). Explains it a lot better than I could.I have updated Small and Big's code thinggies so that any comments and links you make will be noticed by Google and what-not. So add your comments to Small and Big and be sure to promote your blog or website by including a link. If you aren't sure how, here's an example:I have enjoyed Small and Big more than my freshly grilled cheese sandwich!!!Signed,Jane Doe<a href="http://www.yourblogurlgoeshere.com" >Your Blog Name</a>Then click the preview button to see what it looks li... More About: Promote , Here , Want , Comment
Shaking Hands With Yo-Yo Ma
2007-04-30 07:30:00 My pedometer rarely sees an opportunity to count past 5,000 steps these days. Shameful. So today I drove an hour to spend the gray misty day walking in an art museum. There's lots of irony in warming up and cooling down from a walk by planting one's keister in a car. Still, spending a cold-to-the-bone day at a nifty art museum, getting cultured up, and walking for hours and hours and hours isn't a bad way to spend the day. That makes the Peabody Essex Museum (website) in Salem, Massachusetts a $13 walking track. Except that a bunch of art gets in the way of a truly aerobically stimulating workout. After three hours I walk six rooms total, because some guy named Joseph Cornell (about) left boxes everywhere. Boxes, magazines, parrots, and some hot girl balloon (see photo). And it's all firmly glued down. Even the boxes from way back in 1935. But with what? How could glue that old still hold? How could I increase my pedometer's step count in the midst of a Glue Mystery? I'm not ... More About: Hands , King , Hand , Yo-Yo Ma
Shakespeare, Spelling, And 1¢ Gingerbread
2007-04-27 22:30:00 Years ago, in the ancient time before convection ovens, Tivo, and Go-gurt portable yogurt, there was a man. A bald, white man. Some say this man was the greatest writer of the English language; they say it proudly, and in English. The man? William Shakespeare , the Bard of Avon. Back in the Middle Ages the spelling of names wasn't so fixed and Will's last name was also spelled Shaxper or Shakspere. (Parents, teachers, and self, take note! Somone hoo cant speel wel kud stil beecum a fameus poeit an plaa rite.) While he perhaps wasn't much of a speller, even today his writing shows a delightful ability with the feather pen and ink splots. Most of all though, he has the advertising prowress. Between 1595 and 1596 he wrote a historical product placement, the fossilized remains of which are found buried deep in Love's Labour Lost, Act V, Scene I: Had I but a penny in the world, thou shouldst have it for gingerbread. ... More About: Bread , Ginger , Spelling , Brea
Late Breaking News: Author Of Birthday Quote Discovered
2007-04-27 03:30:00 As my three regular readers know, there has been quite a mystery concerning one of Small and Big's favorite quotations. The mystery was discussed indepthly in an earlier post, My Joke Collection (#5), which I highly recommend you peruse if only to beef up your reading skills, which are sorely lacking on this planet, judging from the number of people who don't read this blog."Birthday s are good for you. The more you have the longer you live." Who authored that pithy birthday comment? Who could solve this mystery and bring closure to the matter? I'm no investigative journalist but at one point I nearly tried sleuthing on Google, but got quickly sidetracked by the infinite words one can type into it: "jello farm", "ribald tap dancing", "crabs and blue blood", "ear puppet", "Thumb Wars" (go there), and "why do my pinky toes point out like that?"Abracadabra! Not one hour ago the answer found me. I was gathering quotations for a business client and came across what appears to be the ac... More About: News , Breaking News , Author , Cover
Critic Says, "Hmm..."
2007-04-25 20:00:00 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEBoston, Massachusetts | April 25, 2007 | It has been widely released on the Internet, as everything on the Internet is, that Small and Big has received top honors in a critique of major importance, as all critiques are. Of the five blog reviews listed, Small and Big takes first place, mostly because it is listed first. The honor was bestowed by Crit ique My Blog at critiquemyblog.blogspot.com. "We are overjoyed," squeals Small and Big's Chief CEO of Turnips, P.L. Frederick. "We sleepily turned on our email this morning (yawn) to find a wonderous message from the gentleman over there at Critique My Blog, who kindly notified us of the review. Truly, Mr. Critique My Blog is unexcelled in his capacity for wise discernment and excellent taste. Really good taste."Frederick's pie chart and Microsoft Excel spreadsheets depict the role psychology played in the ranking. "If you take into consideration the human propensity to alphabetize lists, that makes our being first ... More About: Critic
Knuckles The Chimpanzee
2007-04-25 05:00:00 At right is a photo of two chimpanzees. The one standing is Knuckle s, he's seven years old and he has cerebral palsy, a serious neurological disorder that affects the brain and muscles. In "Almost Human, and Sometimes Smarter," New York Times writer John Noble Wilford shares the touching behavior of our closest relatives, the Chimpanzee family. "Devyn Carter of Emory described the sympathetic response to a chimp named Knuckles, who was afflicted with cerebral palsy. No fellow chimp was seen to take advantage of his disability. Even the alpha male gently groomed Knuckles." Do apes have empathy? Does Knuckles' baby-like behavior cause other apes to treat him like a baby? Is the answer a little of both? Perhaps a more essential understanding comes from pondering this: What does this brief story of caring mean for you?More on Knuckles:Wilford: Almost Human, and Sometimes Smarter - iraqwaritObserved in the wild and tested in captivity, chimpanzees invite comparison with humans, their c...
Lose Up To 14 Pounds While You Sleep!
2007-04-23 01:00:00 Amazing... Yet it's 100% true! Scientific research has recently found an easy way to lose unwanted weight—as much as 14 pounds a year (that's 6.35029318 kilograms)—and without diet pills, surgery, exercise, fads, or gimmicks! In fact, you do NOTHING but sleep! And I'll show you how, RIGHT NOW! "I started the easy-to-use program and already lost 5 pounds!" —P.L. FrederickHah, got your attention. But, actually, the weight loss thing is true. It's just that I'm the first person on the planet (Earth, that is) to translate the finding into that screaming "Act Now!" advertising-speak. Why? Because this weight loss program is absolutely free. There's no reason "they" have to convince you to buy any product or service. You pay nothing—not now, not ever! No corporation will make money from it. No late night commercial will be made about it. No pseudo-pharmaceutical company will manufacture it into a sparkly gold pill printed with pink flowers. There's no reason... More About: Sleep , While , Pound
Illustration Friday: Fortune
2007-04-13 23:30:00 Click image above for larger viewSo you want your fortune read, huh? Well, given the popularity of franchises such as The Home Depot and Lowe's Home Improvement, I've moved to the do-it-yourself model. It saves you big bucks and it saves me from potential lawsuits should you decide to deviate your life from this bonafide, unchangeable, 100% accurate fortune.Click the image above to see your fortune more clearly and to get instructions on how to intrepret it (you'll probably need to scroll to the right to see the whole shebang). Bring a solar-powered calculator, a basic understanding of icons and color theory, pretzels, a wool sweater, and for seeing into the future, a telescope.This is my drawing for the Illustration Friday (IF website) assignment, this time to illustrate "Fortune ". Sorry if it turned out kind of snotty looking. I was trying for a humorous Monty Python angle but, now that it's posted it's, well, it's not so much. But what's done is done.©2007 P.L. Freder... More About: Trat , Lust
Fun With Google Maps
2007-04-12 16:45:00 Today doesn't have to be just another ho-hum day. Here's a merry little undertaking for you and a pair of orange floaties:1) Go to maps.google.com2) Click on "Get Directions".3) Specify "From: London" and "To: New York"4) Click the "Get Directions" button5) Do line #37©2007 P.L. Frederick. All rights reserved worldwide. More About: Google , Fun , With , Google Maps , Maps
Even Mathematics Cares
2007-04-12 01:15:00 The bedroom air has a slight wintery chill, like it's been out all night. I work up the nerve to uncover a warm toasty foot to the cold workaday air. Gradually, the memory of the dream I passed through just moments before returns to me.A pink angel-fairy woman about the height of a baby hovers, Tinkerbell style, next to me. Her gentle but sure voice explains any number of truths to me, now forgotten. All but one—a memory of a memory echoes deep in my ear. It is the last thing she said before I awoke to warm cozy green flannel sheets. "Even mathematics cares," she says. "The whole world, it cares for all of you. It loves and it waits and there will come a day when humanity discovers that even mathematics cares."Eyes looking up to a painted white ceiling, I let the first and the last three words swirl within me. "Even mathematics cares," I whisper over and over, nourished by two promises. That infinite numbers, tall quiet pine trees, flying red kites, and sharpened knives care ... More About: Mathematics , Care , Math , Them , Ares
Is It Poetry You Are Grandly Seeking?
2007-04-07 02:00:00 Look no further, Dear Reader, for today I hast added more poems to my Poems, Poems, Poems posting. There's no humor involved though—not even a sorry half-way attempt. But feel free to laugh if you like. And if you have any advice or what-not, post a comment to let me know. I'd love to hear from you!If you're instead craving the weird taste of humor, I totally understand. Sniff, sniff. Wipe eyes. Try "Comments On My Short Story I've Received From My Creative-Writing Classmates" over at McSweeneys (go there). Then come back here and use 'em on me! Or, if you'd appreciate a nice lift, take a gander at Cute Overload (go there). Tee hee!Geez. That's three exclaimation points used today. What's that about? Such usage is not very poetratrical of me. Poemismal? Poet ry ish? Awh, heck. They'll let just about anyone use words nowadays.©2007 P.L. Frederick. All rights reserved worldwide. More About: King , Grand , Seeking
Funny Cat Day
2007-04-05 15:30:00 Want a chuckle today? Go see the cat photo posted on Rick Rockhill's blog (go to Palm Springs Savant). In appearance, that orange cat is inversely proportional to my hairless sphynx kitty, Orphy (shown at right, not to scale). Plus he appears to have eaten a lion.Here are a couple cat thingies from Small and Big:Toilet Training – Print out the handy-dandy drawing(Not So) Fresh Lullaby – Unfortunately, it's nonfictionMy Joke Collection (#20) – Pigs by way of cats and dogs©2007 P.L. Frederick. All rights reserved worldwide. More About: Funny , Fun , Cat
Scientists Discover My Sleeping Pose
2007-04-04 02:30:00 According to my highly scientific enounter with a multiple choice questionnaire, I sleep in the esteemed Sleep belt position. Safety first!It's curious how they know so much about me, but that's science for you. Here I am, going through life knowing only what goes on when I fall asleep and when I wake up. Now, thanks to what must certainly be years of research by devoted Sleep Researchers carefuly analyzing me with rulers, writing instruments, and calculators as I sleep, I know what goes on the the middle there. Apparently, it has something to do with a restraining system that keeps me safely tucked in at night. Nevermore shall I concern myself with worries of falling out of bed and onto my dog, who will bite me.However, in the drawing, which person am I? The person who's more of a person or the person who's more of a belt? Am I a woman or a man? Am I wearing pants or shorts? Does this couple symbolize my two halves? Or do they represent the passage of time—one is me now, t... More About: Sleeping , Scientist , Cover , Over
Spiritual healing talk in Quincy, MA
2007-04-02 23:30:00 If you're interested in this sort of thing, there's a talk on spiritual healing coming up on April 5, 2007 at the Quincy Marriott. If you're curious, this is your chance to learn more. The speaker is Malcolm Smith and I'll type in some stuff from the green flyer I have here:An Open Discussion on Spirit ual Healing Lecture starts at 7:30pm sharpMarriott at Crown Colony, Quincy, MassachusettsMalcolm Smith, an internationally renowned British spiritual healer, will share his experiences as a healer. He'll talk on various topics, such as past lives and the history of mediumship in the United Kingdom, and have a question and answer period. The evening ends with healing for all. All are welcome. Suggested donation: $15.Malcolm's amazing journey has brought him from the coal mines of Yorkshire to the life of an itinerant healer. Lost sight, hearing, and "incurable" diseases have been cured through him. Malcolm considers himself to be an ordinary person, and says, "It is God who does th... More About: Talk , Ritual
See "Peaceful Warrior" This Weekend
2007-04-01 05:59:00 Peaceful War rior was great! Thought provoking and all that. I got free tickets and you can get them too, but only for shows happening this weekend. More info at: Win free movie tickets.©2007 P.L. Frederick. All rights reserved worldwide. More About: Peace , Weekend , This , Week
Meanderings From The Crapper
2007-03-30 19:30:00 It has been suggested by those close to me that, in everyday conversation, I overuse the word crap. "Puke-green is a crappy color. My less-that-700-square-foot crappy house. My drawing got crapped up. Poison ivy is the crappiest. My day got crapivated. These crappy socks have a hole. There's a crappy hole in my socks. There's a crappy hole in my crappy socks, crap!"Is it my fault that "crap" is so pleasurable to say, so evocative? There's the initial crack of a "k" sound, a short open mouthed vowel, and the kind of emotional finish that comes only from spitting out a "p". Other people must think so too because the word crappa goes back to Middle Latin, spoken in Medieval times. That's some noble pedigree. Sir Thomas Crap per, the person who commonly gets credit for inventing the word, marketed an English toilet under his name in 1861 because he wanted in on the crapwagon. (See also: www.theplumber.com and What's in a word?) Yup, whether the word is whispered, shouted, or yelped,... More About: Ring , Rings , Rapper , Erin
Win Free Movie Tickets
2007-03-28 18:00:00 I lied. You can't win them because these tickets are being given away free to anyone who wants 'em. Live in the present moment and download your free tickets for the movie Peaceful Warrior at www.peacefulwarriormovie.net/freewarrior or stop by a Best Buy store (website). You can get up to 10 passes for a opening weekend, happening March 30 through April 1, 2007.Peaceful Warrior is based on Dan Millman's book Way of the Peaceful Warrior. The story centers on Dan, an Olympic Gold Medalist, who serendipitously meets an old gas station attendant, played by Nick Nolte, who helps him answer the question of how to be happy living in the moment.By the by, if you're interested in the meditation/now thing, a true seated theater-meditation is to be had at Into Great Silence (website). The movie's about Carthusian monks, considered one of the world’s most ascetic monasteries. It's a non-moving movie on the physical level but it very much moves on the inner.P.S. With free movie tickets l... More About: Movie , Free , Tickets , Ticket , Tick
This Is Not A Post
2007-03-27 01:00:00 No time to write anything today, but here are links to the most popular thingies I've posted thus far. Enjoy!18 Reasons Not To Go To Work Today – You get 19 reasons for the price of 18Writing Humor One Edit At A Time – How do I do it?Separated At Birth? Stephen Colbert And My Cat – Har har!How My Cat Is Unlike Stephen Colbert – Har-dee-har har!What's Under The Hood – Warning, contains a medical term for human anatomy, which is why it's so popular, I supposePonderous Chapped Lips – You wouldn't believe how many people Google "underarm licking", which isn't really central to the storyWishing you a wonderful day. Or night. Heck, I hope both are glorious for you!©2007 P.L. Frederick. All rights reserved worldwide. More About: Post , This
The Pillow Man
2007-03-25 17:15:00 At 1:30 p.m. a big juicy blueberry plops into the yellow cotton sofa pillow and pops. Purple berry goo smears round until the thirsty fabric sponge sucks it up like a health shake, leaving a burp of a stain behind. A perfectly delicious blueberry lost and an annoying stain gained. Cussing is of no help. Blinking, I see that the stain has smeared into the top hat profile of a real gentleman. Tidy beard, formal jacket, and everything. No matter which way I turn the pillow I can't help looking at this high class work of art. His dapper golden eye glares down at me even when I put the pillow on the floor. His refined upturned nose points away whilst I politely dab his purple face with a myriad of cleaning products, none to his taste. Despite the indignity he's holding up well. Too well. Sunbeams invitingly caress the pillow, warming it to a yellow-mellow. As lightness thaws his formality it dawns on me that we live together now. He's here to stay and I'm keeping my favorite pillow. ... More About: Pillow , The Pill
My Collection Of My Favorite's Favorites
2007-03-24 00:15:00 The next assignment in my quest to become a more competent, compelling, and kooky humor writer as mentioned in I Can Learn To Be Funny? is to decide who’s my most favoritest humorist and then snag 25 quotes. After much deliberation between Phyllis Diller and Dave Barry, I chose the latter. Not because Ms. Diller is any less funny, but because she’s all about the perfect one-sentence joke. My style is more about telling a story. Let me rephrase that: writing a story. I can’t even talk to myself in the mirror, let alone to a crowd of humans. So I’m going with Writer Dave’s work. “But what about Mark Twain,” you ask. “His quotations have comprised most of your lists up to this point. Wasn’t he the consummate humor writer?”Beloved reader, you have been reading my posts! Now I know for sure that I have two readers, including myself. To answer your insightful question: Yes, but our beloved Twain is dead. The fact that Mr. Barry and I live at the same time (and in the ... More About: Favorite , Favorites , Coll , Favor
Death In The Kitchen
2007-03-22 05:45:00 Rivlets of what look to be stale coffee spill down the refrigerator door, long ago transformed into rust. Bumpy layers of paint slopped on to cover the mess have rusted through too, if that's possible. The once white refrigerator I inherited with the house bravely soldiers on, refusing to be stood out behind the barn with a cigarette in its mouth and shot. The freezer door up top squeaks when I open it. The backdraft odor is a stale pent-up Ice Age—pork chops, popsicles, and lasagna from the ancient summer of 1983. Glacial ice sheets have expanded another quarter-inch toward the yellow garden corn. If I was wee small and lived in there I'd be concerned. I pitch a softball sized clump of bagged green peas into the ice hole. It hits the rear of the freezer with a satisfying bullseye thump and I slam the door shut."Clunk, clunk, clunk." The freezer has learned a word. Or a cough. The broken sound enthusiastically turns into a death rattle and, because I'm so empathetic, I feel... More About: Kitchen , Death , Chen
My Collection Of Favorite Quotes
2007-03-21 03:45:00 Okay, what I realized from this exercise is that I don't know the difference between a joke and a quote. So here are 25 favorite quotes. Or jokes.SEXI believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex.— Jack HandyBisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.—Woody Allen (b. 1935)DEATHWhen you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick, but if it's not, mmmmmmmm, boy.—Jack HandyLAUGHTERI am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.—Woody Allen (b.1935)CYNICISMA cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.—James Gould Cozzens (1903-1978)GOSSIPGossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.—Liz SmithGossip, n.: Hearing something you like about someone you don'... More About: Quotes , Favorite , Quote , Coll , Favor
Survival Skills From An English Teacher
2007-03-17 06:05:00 Over the course of this afternoon gravity has cajoled, lured, then tugged billions of snowflakes down from a solid gray sky. Instead of appreciating the strength of this attraction I find myself remembering the advice a high school English teacher gave me in the 1980s. After Robert Frost there was Jack London's short story, To Build a Fire, about a man, a dog, and their ill-fated walk over the Klondike tundra at -50°. (Any stroll during such temperatures is ill-fated.) The teacher asked us, "You're stranded in the frigid, freezing wilderness and, to survive, you've got a choice between eating snow and drinking running water from a stream. Which do you choose?"Silence."Always drink the water. Melting snow into water means your body has to burn calories. Water, even freezing cold water, takes less energy for your body to process. In the cold you'll survive longer on water than snow."Today's snowstorm reminds me of special English survival skills I hold ever at the ready. Espe... More About: Cher , Teacher , Skill , Skills
My Collection Of Favorite Jokes
2007-03-15 22:30:00 Phew! Twenty-five jokes have been posted since this exercise was first announced in I Can Learn To Be Funny? Am I funnier yet? I dunno. But my brain does feel more creative than usual, and in a joyful way. I'm gaining a greater appreciation for well worded phrases, even those that aren't humorous.Here are the jokes on display; all sorted, labled, and numbered for you. (Although in terms of how much I prefer each joke the numbers mean nothing, zip, zilch.) Admission is free. Clicking to each joke below also includes all sorts of commentary by moi—so if you don't want that, go no further. Warning: Enjoy!1) Blood types and aging — by Phyllis Diller2) NASA and the race for scientific advancement — by Anonymous3) Button holes, losing — by Steven Wright4) Vacuums vs. lawn mowers — by Roseanne Barr5) Birthdays are good for you — by Anonymous6) Sears Tower, falling, dummies — Jack Handy7) Complaining — Woody Allen8) Muggers and choices &md... More About: Jokes , Joke , Favorite , Coll , Favor
My Joke Collection (#25)
2007-03-14 18:00:00 I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.—Gilda Radner (Wikipedia)I concur. What's nice about this joke is the word itch. Complaints about clothes usually go from the bruised feet, bunions, and corns to the expensive price tags to the transatory styles. I don't expect the line to end with itching.Oddly, itching and scratching have never been fashionable. In some circles expensive price tags and temporary trends are sought after, but bunions and corns? Hmmm, that gives me an idea. Fashion designers: After Earth's population perfects their "beautiful" look with plastic surgery, ugly will be super In. Make a name for yourself right now by breaking away from the fashion pack. Embrace what you help create! Turn hammer toes into glamor toes! Stick a bowtie on a bunion! Adorn a corn!©2007 P.L. Frederick. All rights reserved worldwide. More About: Joke , Coll
Illustration Friday: Wired
2007-03-12 22:50:00 Mr. Coffee goes bad. Real bad. This mugshot shows he got himself into some hot water. His crime? All I can legally repeat is that it involves coffee, coffee, a mug collection with one too many Christmas motifs, and coffee.Notice that the martini olive has been cruelly stabbed. I didn't have time to break the wine bottle and turn it into a weapon so I just put a crack in it. Mr. Coffee's prisoner number translates as "coffee" (c=3, o=15, f=6, etc.) because "coffee cartel" takes too many numbers.This is my drawing for the Illustration Friday (IF website) assignment, this time to illustrate "Wire d ". Click it for a bigger version.©2007 P.L. Frederick. All rights reserved worldwide. More About: Trat
The Ethics Of Changing Time, Or 10 Minutes To Absurd
2007-03-11 06:50:00 There are 24 hours in a day. This is one of those truisms you learn when you’re eight, like “You put your tongue on that frozen pipe there’s gonna be trouble,” and “You eat that entire bowl of cashews there’s gonna be trouble.” Time differs from salty nuts and metal pipes. It’s less digestible, less huggable. Is that why something odd happens to the natural order of 24–hour days?Let's recap. Hours were first detected thousands of years ago by antique Egyptian scientists. On a sunny morning in 3,500 BCE they invented paper, pyramids, mummies, sand, and—according to select historical records no longer in print—alien spaceships. After a leisurely siesta the Egyptians rounded up 24 tidy chunks, nicknamed them hours and called it a day. Ancient Egyptian executives later expanded the 24–hour system into the vertical marketplace: sundials, clocks, watches, Playgirl calendars, and other timekeeping devices. This is how history comes down to us today.... More About: Ethics , Changing , Minutes , Minute
My Joke Collection (#24)
2007-03-10 04:40:00 We owe a lot to Thomas Edison—if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.—Milton Berle (Wikipedia)A world without electricity would be a different world indeed. We'd be getting our monthly light bills from the candle utilities. What's nice about this joke is that it's based on a cramped world view devoid of science; that a world without electricity is the same as one with. Only without.©2007 P.L. Frederick. All rights reserved worldwide. More About: Joke , Coll
My Joke Collection (#23)
2007-03-08 00:00:00 I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.—Mark Twain, a.k.a. Samuel Clemens (PBS and Ken Burns)Ain't that the truth for us all. Twain, the mustacheod ex-riverboat captain, has a fine way of dressing up the phrase, "Don't worry about it". This one's a keeper because it spits straight into mopey territory, hits that comma there, and rebounds into a delightful remark about the human experience. A master writer of his caliber doesn't have to use a funny word like spittoon to accomplish his noble task. Dang, I just used spittoon.©2007 P.L. Frederick. All rights reserved worldwide. More About: Joke , Coll
My Joke Collection (#22)
More articles from this author:2007-03-07 01:40:00 Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? A: To get to the other side.—Unknown (and in hiding)A chicken lays down plain old common sense. Yes, I yelp it to the world: I have always, always enjoyed this joke! It's as funny today as when I was in kindergarten, only more so. This is the kind of joke a Snidley Sourpuss might make up. He'd grumble, "You expected a magic answer, an exciting answer, even a funny answer, didn't yah? Well there's no such thing." That is the joke's dirty little secret—the teller uses trickery to feel superior. Especially five-year-old comedians. Enough about theory, philosophy, and mathematics. Let's not over analyze a good thing.©2007 P.L. Frederick. All rights reserved worldwide. More About: Joke , Coll 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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