Expand your sense of humor with fast quotes, quick wit, convenient clichés, wisdom, fun and clever ideas.
Enjoy hundreds of select quips from comics, classics, editorials, bumper stickers and anonymous sayings.
Discover the most snarky, smiley, sanctimonious, sentimental, sacred, irreverent, tender, cheeky and enduring short funny punches. These off-beat quotes, pithy adages and short humorous poems cover every imaginable topic, vision and viewpoint.
Escape now into the world of SMIRK.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
If you’re too open-minded, your brains will fall out.
Junk is something you’ve kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it.
If you’re going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it!
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Q ~ What makes clowns so funny?
A ~ They look funny. They make fun of themselves and we feel sorry for them and also feel a tad superior.
Q ~ What about all those Ronald McDonald clowns?
A ~ They all use idential mannerisms and costumes— and there are hundreds of them, all over. They are very kid-friendly.
Q ~ How did classic serious writers use humor?
A ~ George Bernard Shaw, Somerset Maughm, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle all used comedies of manners. They made fun of social conditions of the times.
Q ~ Since both volumes of SMIRK are funny, how do I know which volume to buy?
A ~ First click on the Order Volume 1 Now and/or Volume 2 Now buttons under the cover pictures at the right. Read the information and samples. Then make your choices to make your purchase.
Q ~ Why did you write the SMIRK books.
A ~ Because it has been fun ! AF
Can a cat tell that you’re laughing at it? Richard Wiseman met a fella who “surveyed” both his cat and dog and concluded that the dog joins in with the joke when laughed at. The cat on the other hand, hates to be laughed at. Cats will actually rebuff a human follow-up apology or affection. Dogs appear to be more confident that that haughty feline bluff cat-owners bow down to.
What does YOUR pet say about its sense of humor?
AF 6/’08
Picture two fish in a tank. One turns to the other and says, “Do you know how to drive this thing?”
We consider— why should the fish be able to drive a fish tank?
We resolve the puzzle when ithe punch line points out that the word “tank” has two meanings. The fish are actually in an army tank. Whew—that’s a surprise! I’ll bet we’re both laughting.
Just another element of humor. Sometimes when something doesn’t seem to fit in we’re first puzzled, then relieved to finally understand and laugh at the incongruity. Sure, it’s funny.
AF 5/15
One of the healthiest things you can have up your sleeve is a funny bone !
“Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are depressing,” so said E.B. White. So why analyze it? Laughter, smiles and humor usually come to us by way of love, anger, lousy cooking, winning or losing, being a tad naughty or by U.S. Postal Service.
How about the way the British have of defining certain athletes as Boxingers? Huh? It’s sort of logical. In the USA we have Boxing, so let’s go with Boxingers on the sports pages. It’s amusing to us because it’s an unexpected word. They say that humor results when two different frames of reference are set up and a collision is inveigled between them. Boom !
Hey, will you please tell me when You read newspaper comics? Just answer in the “Comments” item here.
In case you don’t read the funnies the first thing when you open the paper——try it. Then go to the front page, or wherever your interests are. Comics do simplify life. They get right to the point. Peanuts, especially knows so much about living, thanks to Charles Schultz, his cartoonist.
There was an interesting exchange when Charlie Brown asked, “Have you ever considered the enormity of the universe, Linus?” Linus replied,with an honest face, “I don’t even know what’s in the next block.”
Sometimes I think I know how he felt, don’t you? Please answer, in “Comments.”
