| When I need a chuckle, I try to watch a sitcom | | | | motor bike helmet he wore to a bank? If I keep |
| or read the funnies. When my need for comedy | | | | extending this list, you will soon get convinced that |
| is greater, then I invest my time in watching a | | | | I am making this up as I am going along. |
| complete movie. But when nothing but the | | | | I am reminded of the words of Ernest |
| funniest will do, I just observe the so-called real | | | | Hemingway when we would sit on the steps of, |
| world around me. | | | | whatever he sat on the steps of, and "see the |
| The fact that this is really happening makes all the | | | | world walk by." Well, Hemingway and I share that |
| weird stuff all the more funny. To begin with, one | | | | in common, except that it seems like I am more |
| tends to have a basic expectation of common | | | | entertained than Hemingway was, as I do not |
| sense from people. But the word common is | | | | just see the world walk by, but also make a fool |
| misleading, as most often what we would classify | | | | of itself all along the way. |
| as common sense is fairly uncommon. | | | | So, when you feel that things are all so sad and |
| What? Are you having trouble believing me? Well | | | | boring, just look around. Do not bother about |
| just turn to the weird news section of any | | | | reading a joke book. Instead consider reading a |
| newspaper or portal web site. Honestly, I used to | | | | news paper. Knowing what happened when a |
| think that all this was just made up. But I finally | | | | duck went to the bar and asked for a drink can |
| got to meet some of the people in these real | | | | be fun the first time you hear it. Responding to a |
| world snafus and became a believer. | | | | "Knock Knock" can be fun the first hundred times |
| What would you say of the owner who claims | | | | you hear it. But, a constant, evergreen, and |
| that her cat dialed 911 thereby calling the police in | | | | "unreal" source of chuckles is the real world. |
| time to save her life? Or the person who called | | | | It is no wonder then that movie makers spend |
| Nine One One and claimed to not be able to find | | | | time, energy, and money in including bloopers at |
| the Eleven button on his phone, thereby not being | | | | the end of all movies. Many people claim that |
| able to call Nine-Eleven, Or the bank robber who | | | | these bloopers are more fun than the actual |
| had his name prominently labeled across the | | | | movie. |