"Sniggerlings"(ii)

Sniggerlings(ii)

      I love a good, funny line. I find them all over the place. Because I believe in God, I’m convinced that the Good Lord scatters them around for me to find like Easter eggs. From my basket I make some of my “Sniggerlings.” “Sniggerlings” is about fun and can be made up of good lines as well as short essays. For example, many things that make me laugh are puns. I’ve heard it said that a pun is the lowest form of humor, but I think people who say that have the lowest form of sense of humor. A good pun challenges us to see the world differently. Instead of the idea being the father of the word, a good pun becomes the illegitimate rogue of an Irish stepfather to the idea(a stepfather who‘s had just enough whiskey to make him fun.) Good puns often throw one thing up against another to see if they mate and to imagine what comes from their intercourse. The result can be a laugh out loud. A bad pun -- well, let’s leave bad puns to those who bottom feed in the realm in which is found the “lowest form[s] of humor”.

      The following is an example of how imagination explodes when we mix a business proposal with an over-the-counter cold medicine:

      Chuckleworthy?
      This is from a kids’ TV series in the Sixties that I grew up on. From Rocky and Bullwinkle. Boris Badenov is an evil villain from Pottsylvania, an otherwise unidentified Eastern European nation, at that time (during the Cold War) behind the Iron Curtain. Boris has offered to buy all of Bullwinkle the Moose’s paintings, which are white on white(for example, a white cow in a blinding snowstorm, or a nude figure of an albino Napoleon made of white chocolate, in a glass of milk.) Badenov knows -- and Bullwinkle does not -- that Bullwinkle has painted over priceless masterpieces that Boris previously stole.

      Boris offers him the huge sum of $50 apiece, and Bullwinkle is impressed. Bullwinkle says, “Now, that’s an antihistamine offer: not to be sneezed at.”

      Heehee

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      Chuckleworthy?

      Question: Can you imagine the scene in a Video Game called Mr. Whiz: Archaic Superhero? Three people encircled by a flash brush fire: two young people -- Eleanor and Gunther -- and an old geezer nicknamed ‘Mr. Whiz‘, who has high blood pressure. They have to break through a weak spot in the waist-high flames to get to safety in a small stream. They have only two cell phones and a single bottle of beer among them. What is their plan?

      Answer: Eleanor and Gunther can skype one another to discuss their situation, but that would take too long.  How about Mr. Whiz?  Yes.  While one bottle of beer is not enough to put out the flames, even if Rodney King size, Mr. Whiz has a secret superpower. That’s right: Give the old man the beer to chug-a-lug. He takes two kinds of diuretics daily. He’ll save the day. He isn’t called “Mr. Whiz’ for nothing.

Heehee

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