Absolutely, Don. That's it exactly. Maybe the people who complain about these jokes don't deal with adversity that way, and therefore they don't understand, but I know it works that way for many of us, me included. I have a lot of empathy for others - sometimes I think it's too much for my own good. I am always aware that we are all connected. The human condition can sometimes be unbearable, and we use ways that will lighten it.

As for the PC brigade thinking it has the right to tell me what I should laugh at - I'm the one who has to get through my day, nobody else - and it's up to me to decide what works. I know what my intentions are - and that's my business anyway.

As several here have pointed out, the people themselves who have the disability or adversity use humour to deal with it, and would prefer not to have others tiptoeing around them being over-solicitous of their feelings.

so keep 'em coming, folks!