The Best Medicine – Laughter. Sounds like something one would find in Reader’s Digest. Reader’s Digest did provide many a good laugh. It was a great bathroom reader; short quick stories that were just long enough for the time one spent in the bathroom. That is until it dawned on you that you are not the only one sharing the magazine in the bathroom. Now, that is funny — thinking about the next person to read a story that is just long enough 
This is a tough challenge. It is a tough challenge for the unfunny. The unfunny when trying to be funny become unfunny, so unfunny that they become comical, the butt of the joke. It is best to simply be unfunny if you are unfunny. Not funny, or funny?
So, what’s funny?
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Funny is watching the reaction of the cute girl in the bikini after she loses her top diving into the water.
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Funnier is when the girl is your sister.
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Funniest is watching the reaction on her boyfriend’s face as he panics when everyone becomes aware of the missing top.
I rode a horse once — actually — several times, but less than a handful, which means less than 5 times. The first time on a horse was an experience I enjoyed immensely. I even enjoyed the part where I was thrown from the horse, or should I say, somersaulted over the horse’s head and landed perfectly on my back in a way that any judo instructor would be proud. The only riding instruction I received that day? None. I wasn’t told that when you go downhill that it would be a good idea to lean back in the saddle a bit, sitting upright. I didn’t and the horse suddenly stopped and there I went … right over his head. I was on my back looking up at the horse before I realized what happened. It was funny.
Not funny – the rock that I could have landed on had I landed about a foot to my left.
The look on the other rider’s faces? Priceless!
Priceless? That sounds like a MasterCard commercial.
Okay, WordPress Challenger … you suggested that we sketch a comic. A comic I will not sketch. Besides, which comic would it be? Not the really bad ones that are on late-night (Leno, Letterman, etc.) I am told I have a lot of brains. I keep thinking that I keep losing my mind. I know that they are rarely put to good use.
Cartoonist Wanted!
Okay, WordPress Challenger … you wanted a limerick too, and here it is. Bawdy? No. So is it really a limerick?
There is only one Rotten Ray
who can’t use his brain on this day.
It’s sad for the lad
and for you, that he’s bad.
For now, no good tale he will say.
I do not have a sister.
