Tuesday, March 30, 2004

More laughter  

This is an actual conversation that made me laugh pretty hard:

Mrs. Happy (singing)
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Me (thinking)
Wow. I knew that someone took that clever spoonerism originally coined by Dorothy Parker and used it as the basis for a country and western song, but I've never actually heard the song. I've sometimes wondered whether the rest of the lyrics would match the wit in Parker's statement, but I've never been in a position—while I'm wondering, that is—to look up the words or ask someone who knows them. And here I find that my wife knows them, except that she's stopped singing.

Me (speaking)
Do you really know that song?

Mrs. Happy
Kind of. That's really the only line I know.

Me
Oh.

Mrs. Happy
And I don't know the tune at all.

Me
::hysterical laughter::