There's a good chance you hallucinated this week without ever knowing it

Inverse ^ | October 11, 2019 | By Jack Barton on

[Monkey Face]

Funny but accurate, Nully! Thanks! LOL!

[NicknamedBob]

"I have Jake and Shannon and their attitude problems. Plus they’re wet. I have laundry in the dryer, too."

I hadn't considered that.

Do they land on their feet at the end of the process?

[Tax-chick]

Heh, that would be a thing.

[Monkey Face]

Today is one of those days when I can’t seem to keep up with things. But if I ask for an explanation for something, please don’t shoot me!

[Tax-chick]

I often have to think about things Bob says. It’s good for the mental gears, sort of like being around Tom the Son!

[Monkey Face]

Most of the time, I can follow Bob’s train of thought and enjoy it. But some days, like this one, the entire art of conversation seems like a foreign language and I feel like I don’t belong.

[Silentgypsy]

Thank you.

[Silentgypsy]

Wasn’t the agreement contingent upon your having full control (i.e., they’re backpedaling)?

[Silentgypsy]

Hey, y’all.

[Silentgypsy]

Lol!

[Tax-chick]

You’re welcome. Maybe the cutest kitten ever.

[NicknamedBob]

Humor has been described as "the unexpected juxtaposition of an incongruity".

It has also been noted that if you have to explain it, the humor goes away.

That said: "Plus they’re wet. I have laundry in the dryer, too."

Do they land on their feet at the end of the process?

See it? Wet cats/ wet laundry. Leave it up to me to make the connection, of course.

Timing is tricky, especially in the written form, and most true humor has a dollop of casual cruelty implied, just for the sake of bringing out the horrified expression on your victim with a momentary thought that some idiot actually might put cats in a drier.

It's like stirring up a Harry Potter potion. The ingredients seem haphazard, but the process is precise.

[ArGee]

There was an old Far Side cartoon with a sign on the dryer saying “Cat fud” and the dog watching as the cat looked at the opening. The dog was thinking, “Please, oh please.”

That cartoon made me think of the cat getting it’s feet knocked out from under by the pane, landing on its feet, getting it’s feet knocked out from under ...

[ArGee]

My train of thought is still boarding at the station.

[ArGee]

No. I have full control. But we didn’t get this bad in a day, and it’s taking time to fix it.

I’m sure some things would go better if I fired them all and hired new people, but that would have it’s own costs.

Then there’s the flu, which seems to have a free reign around here.

[ArGee]

I had been away from my regular hotel for 2 weeks and checked back in on Sunday. As I was talking to the young lady behind the counter another regular (in town closing down a retail outlet) saw me and said, “You’re back!”

I turned around and said, “My front, too.”

I guess he was just enough of a nerd to think that was really funny.

[Tax-chick]

You take your good cheer where you can find it.

[NicknamedBob]

“Cat fud”

One of my favorites.

[Tax-chick]

[Monkey Face]

Most humor, I get immediately because of the types of humor I was forced to learn and endure as I was growing up. I enjoy it all because these days, I don’t have to have it explained to me. Unlike when I was a very short person, and people laughed at me because I was “too young to get it.”

Sometimes, the conversation just goes too fast for me. I’m a few car-lengths behind. :o|