November 14 Humor

The reason New Yorkers are depressed, because the light at the end of their chunnel is New Jersey.

For two years I managed a group of musicians who proudly labeled themselves “The loudest rock-and-roll band in LA.” One night, during a particularly rowdy and raucous rehearsal, they took a break. Rubbing one ear the lead singer asked, “Hey, are you guys losing your hearing?”  The bass player shrugged and pointed to his forehead in reply and said, “Maybe just a little on top.”

In our class on major American writers at Peace College in Raleigh, N.C., we often viewed movies made from novels. One night, a classmate arrived a half-hour late and sat down next to me. Trying to catch up, on what she had missed, she pointed at the actors on the screen and asked, “Which one is Moby Dick?”