Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for December 06, 2020

It’s nice seeing sisters that can get along with each other.

Laughter is contagious. Even self-contagious. Sometimes I have to stop reading to catch my breath and wipe my eyes… and it very seldom seems quite as funny afterward.

Mommy! Mommy! What are those things they’re looking at?

I know a guy who laughs hilariously at his own jokes. He is his own best audience. I get a kick out of him laughing at his jokes!

It’s always sad when there’s something really funny you show to another person and they reluctantly laugh or give you a face and say, “I don’t get it.”

My bride does this to me all the time. Now I simply say, “You wouldn’t get it.” and really tee her off!

Reminds me of a book I checked out for children, Matilde the maid I think the name of the book, had me really laughing, reason reminds me, I called my mother-in-law on phone trying to read portion, I was laughing so hard and she never got it, I not call my own mom as she was not into books.

Humor can get lost in translation.

Help! The Spanish and English Sunday comic strips aren’t synchronized!

Had this in junior high. “Review question 1: Explain what is funny in this story.” Way to kill Stephen Leacock for a generation of Canadians, textbook writers!

Could it be a ‘Far Side’?

A sense of humour is such a fickle thing.