And we have some winners!!!!! Good stories gang.....all gave me a laugh! And Bill, I'm trying to commit that phrase to memory...."jaw-dropping relational juxtapositioning of incongruous elements"....that's it exactly!

Allan's story of the funeral is a good one too, and so often we find no humor in them at all. Many times I think the deceased would actually enjoy the laughter if they were there. My best friend Denny ask me to speak at his funeral about a year before he died and I said that I might not be a good choice since I'd probably tell stories on him. He replied that he could think of nothing he'd like more and no one better to do it. I'm proud to say that for about 15 minutes (after they got over the shock of what I was doing) that I had a great audience laughing at some of the stupid things we'd done.

When I was teaching, we had a party at our house and a lot of teachers sitting around telling bad and irritating things that had happened that week. Karen (one of the few non-teachers present) works as a histologist (they dissect human tissue and mount it on slides for pathologists to diagnose) all of a sudden said, "We had a four pound uterus today." Another case of Bill's relational juxtapositioning that simply broke everyone up including Karen.

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