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Humour. It's a funny thing.

Apparently mine is dry, so I've been told, but I care not. I like what I like and perhaps you will too. In the past couple of days I've re-discovered a couple of comedy gems which had just drifted off my radar. They both appeal to my sense of humour as they may to yours.

The first is Gary Larsons 'The Far Side' - a collection of largely single panel cartoons originally appearing in newspapers between about 1980 and 1995 but now available in several collections.

Whether surreal, paranoid, featuring animals or alien lifeforms in very human situations or just relying on plain visual gags, I think it more often hits the mark than misses it.

 

 

 

My second dose of humour comes courtesy of Douglas Adams and John Lloyd via a book called "The Deeper Meaning Of Liff". Essentially it's a dictionary of things that there aren't any words for yet. And instead of coming up with new words why not use all those spare words "which spend all their time doing nothing but loafing about on signposts pointing at places" so they can "start earning their keep in everyday conversation." Yes, they are all place names and here are a few examples...

 

 

 

 

ELY (n.) - The first, tiniest inkling you get that something, somewhere, has gone terribly wrong.

 

MACROY (n.) - An authoritative, confident opinion based on one you read in a newspaper.

 

SOMPTING (n.) - The practice of dribbling involuntarily into one's own pillow.

 

SPREAKLEY (adj.) - Irritatingly cheerful in the morning.

 

NYBSTER (n.) - Sort of person who takes the lift to travel one floor.

 

GOOLE (n.) - The puddle on the bar into which the barman puts your change.

 

SCRONKEY (n.) - Something that hits the window as a result of a violent sneeze.

 

GUERNSEY - Queasy but umbowed. The kind of feeling one gets when discovering a plastic compartment in a fridge in which thing are growing.

 

GRIMBISTER - Large body of cars on motorway all travelling at exactly the speed limit because one of them is a police car.

 

FULKING (participial vb.) - Pretending not to be in when the carol-singers come round.

 

WINKLEY (n.) - A lost object which turns up immediately you've gone and bought a replacement for it.

 

ACKLINS - (pl.n.) The odd twinges you get in parts of your body when you scratch other parts.

 

 

 

 

 

Ah well, you've got to laugh haven't you ...

 

Ade