HUMOR/RANT

Ah, Yes, It’s Another Day On The Internet

I should stop paying my electricity bill and put my phone in a blender.

Photo by Miguel Bruna on Unsplash

I am mystified, mystified, by people who read an article clearly marked HUMOR and insist on replying with a deathly earnest counterpoint (I’m just stringing words together here) about some “joke” I’ve made.

If I make a “joke” (yes, I’m going to keep using quotation marks so you understand that I understand that humor, like fashion and politics, is relative) about throwing a sack of kittens into a lake, I obviously do not advocate nor condone throwing an actual parcel of felines into an aqueous geological feature.

“Throwing kittens into a lake” is a widely used and recognized image, which I will have chosen to use as narrative color in a story. (Ooh, “narrative color”, I like that. Can you believe I’ve never taken a writing course? Please don’t answer that.)

Much as the sentence, “People used to drink liquid cocaine, but now we’re suppose to worry about a Lean Cuisine that may contain nuts” was used for humorous exaggeration in my opus, Why Don’t People Have Curtains?

Let me repeat: Humorous exaggeration.