Well, the beginning of the end has begun. Confusing it sounds to you? Well, it just means that the year is about to end as the last month is about to begin. This truth is expressed in a pithy way. Let us today try a few jokes. They are interesting because they are highly Intellectual. Why must laughter always be shallow and silly, right?
The first two are related to 'chemical lochya'. 1)You are not part of the solution!?! Ah, yes, you must then be part of the precipitate. 2)In a cafe: "What would you have, Sir"? "H2O, Please." " How about you, Madam?" " I want H2O, too." Well, the waiter, actually a Ph.D. scholar of Chemistry, was working part time in that hotel. The lady drank whatever was offered, and she died. Why? He got her H2O2, that is, hydrogen peroxide!
The next two jokes play with words. 1) He is a linguist. He likes ambiguity more than most people! 2) A German goes to a bar and asks for Martini. 'Dry,' asks the bartender. 'Nein,' says the German. 'Only one! ' Ah, yes, the first joke of this two is based on ambiguity, a word/a clause that can have two meanings. The pithy sentence here means two things, too. He prefers ambiguity to people or Most people like ambiguity less, unlike him. The second one depends on phonetics, the science of sounds. English 'dry' sounds like German 'drei' which means three.
The last one now. An absolute example of word play worth a Shashi Tharoor! Three crows are trying to be together. They are planning a murder! Well, this joke depends on the word play on 'murder' which is a collective noun, a term for a group of crows!
Pratima@Laughter must go beyond mere hoo-haw or below the if. If-n-when it challenges the brain, then it is fun.
Let us resume, let us get back, to our practice of the 'quote of the day' and of the word of the day tomorrow onwards, ok?
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