A four-year-old girl was diligently pounding away on her daddy's old computer. She informed him that she was writing a story. "What is your story about?" he asked. "I don't know," she answered. "I can't read."

Family And Home Humor
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"When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read."

-Sinclair Lewis

'Appearances And Looks Humor' is in the works!

God wove a web of loveliness,
Of clouds and stars and birds,
But made not anything at all
So beautiful as words.

-Anne Hempstead Branch

Poetry Humor
www.dailystrength.org/groups/laughterclub/discussions/messages/7399072

"Bad spellers of the world, untie!"
-Author Unknown

School Humor
www.dailystrength.org/groups/laughterclub/discussions/messages/6385552

"I have very little of Mr. Blake's company; he is always in Paradise."

-Mrs. William Blake

One-Liner And Quotation Humor
www.dailystrength.org/groups/laughterclub/discussions/messages/6795267

"I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn."

-Anne Frank, quoted in "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl", 4 April 1944 entry date

Happy Thoughts
www.dailystrength.org/groups/laughterclub/discussions/messages/6910324

"For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket, and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure that the ink had not faded."

-James Matthew Barrie: in a speech at the Critics' Circle in London, England (26 May 1922)

Book Humor
1. www.dailystrength.org/groups/laughterclub/discussions/messages/6682893
2. www.dailystrength.org/groups/laughterclub/discussions/messages/2911081

Did you hear the one about the writer who dropped eleven stories into a waste-basket and lived?

"Mind grammar, spelling, and punctuation; use short words; and express as briefly as you can your meaning."

-Louisa May Alcott: letter (24 October 1878) to John Preston True

"Beware the elongated yellow fruit. Have no unreasonable fear of repetition...The story is told of a feature writer who was doing a piece on the United Fruit Company. He spoke of bananas once; he spoke of bananas twice; he spoke of bananas yet a third time, and now he was desperate. "The world's leading shippers of the elongated yellow fruit," he wrote. A fourth 'bananas' would have been better."

-James J. Kilpatrick

Food Humor
www.dailystrength.org/groups/laughterclub/discussions/messages/2833111

In promulgating your esoteric cogitations or articulating you superficial sentimentalities, and amicable philosophical or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosity. Let your conversational communications possess a clarified conciseness, and a concatenated cogency, eschew all conglomerations of garrulity, jejune babblement, and affectations. Let your extemporaneous descantings and unpremeditated expatiations have intelligibility and voracious vivacity, without rodomontade or thrasonical bombast. Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolificacy, ventriloquial verbosity, and vain vapidity. In other words, say what you mean, mean what you say - and don't use big words!

"For fourteen years I have not had a day of real health. I have wakened sick and gone to bed weary, yet I have done my work unflinchingly. I have written in bed and out of bed, written torn by coughing, written when my head swam for weakness - and I have done it all for so long that it seems to me I have won my wager and recovered my glove. Yet the battle still goes on: ill or well is a trifle so long as it goes. I was made for a contest, and the Powers-That-Be have willed that my battlefield shall be the dingy, inglorious one of the bed and the medicine-bottle."

-Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist; author of the adventure novels "Treasure Island" (1883) and "Kidnapped" (1886), the science fiction novel "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), and the poetry anthology "A Child's Garden of Verses" (18??), all of which are still popular today with readers of all ages. He is an example of what a person can accomplish in sickness and in health. You will find his inspiring quotations scattered among the humor topics in A Laughter Club.

Repetitive Repetitiousness

I love to talk and try to write
The language that I mangle
Though simple clauses are misplaced
And the modifiers dangle

I'm tone-deaf to metric feet
My "punctuation",--I regret it
My metaphors are often mixed
My spelin--Hell, forget it!

I've another fault, (if it is a fault)
I freely vow admission
I state, re-state, repeat, repeat,---
I do like repetition.

Irregardless if my verse is free,
Or if I write it rhymin',
It makes my teacher climb the walls
See? There he goes a-climbin'.

Bob Whisenant-1930-2009, from his book "Of Sand and Dreams"-
(My Dad)

Super! :-)

“When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.”

-Sinclair Lewis

Appearances And Looks Humor
www.dailystrength.org/groups/laughterclub/discussions/messages/11343727