Yeah, Smokey. Tasteless but certainly not malicious.

After the Challenger disaster it took less than three days for my son to come home from school with an assortment of Christie McCullough jokes. None funny but all designed to what? shock? I don't know.

I was commenting on this a few months back to a friend and I observed that I thought it significant that the Twin Towers disaster had not produced similar jokes. His comment: "You don't know any NY firemen, do you?" Apparently, there are thousands of similar jokes at least within certain circles.

There are people in my office who find outrageous humor hysterical and often I agree with them. There are others who think that Everybody Loves Raymond is brilliant humor. It bores me to tears - repetitive, inane, stereotypical claptrap. In fact, I can imagine a few who would go off on the idea that it ridicules and belittles women.

I am curious, Lizzie. What do you find humorous? What book, movie, TV program, song, joke, whatever do you find humorous?

I laugh out loud at Kendall's stories, certain scenes from Moby Dick, The Producers, Severn's puns, Art Thieme's tall stories, Micca's antics, Jacqui and the other Evil Sisters when they are at their best and I am not the victim. Early Bill Cosby reduced me to tears. Tami's tales of tourists - very black humor, by the way. Morticia's sly wit. Spaw's epic tales of Paw and the Reg Boys. Some of it very broad humor; some of it very clever; some mean spirited; some very gentle.

So, what makes you laugh?