Ok, Lighten UP…. 1/13/06

This friend of mine has this bird joke. The joke now older than I am. I shouldn’t laugh at it when he tells it annually, none of us should. We all know it by heart. Yet when he tells it, he breaks us all up.

I’ve tried to figure why his joke cracks us up, I can’t. Maybe it’s not the message but the messenger… he’s got this funny smile at the start and it only gets bigger. He knows he’s got us and he starts laughing half way through and it gets worse. Then he’s hits us with the punch line and that’s it. Just the glee in his eyes makes your belly roll.

He just went through two major surgeries and by all indications we will all be laughing at his stupid joke for years come…. “So when the bird falls off it’s perch..” smile.