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.
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.
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|