What makes you laugh? #Bloganuary writing prompt
Irony. I grew up on American slapstick which entertained me for a while but was ultimately unsatisfying. A lot of it turned real in the hazing typical of adolescence and early adulthood – both as executor and executee. Much of the laughter was hollow. Thank goodness for a healthy family background in good solid, subtle, understated British humour, which can somehow blend Monty Pythonesque prat falls with dry and laconic life observations that are pregnant with wit. This blend, perhaps, has become the hallmark of Aussie humour.
The best lesson learned, however, is how to laugh at myself. Lots of opportunities – slapstick – like when in the midst of one of my Sunday morning sermonic harangues, a tooth came loose and ended in the lap of a surprised parishioner. I simply retrieved it and carried on.
Irony, however, happens every single day and saves one from taking oneself to seriously.
Wondering Pilgrim 
Yes, the ability to not take one’s self too seriously is something we all would be wise to remember! 🙂
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Your tooth story reminds of ELW in a Church History lecture. I noticed for the first time one of his fingers was shorter than the the rest. In the ‘blink of an eyelid’ he said: “Pony bit it off” and kept going with his lecture.
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There we go. We stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before!
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