The Snowflake Chronicles

Comedy Newsletter for November (deadline 11/19/18)

Editor's Picks

1. I lost my wife
2. Where's My Marbles?
3. We Were Almost There!!!
4. Darwin Award
5. All Through the Department Store
6. Vampire Movie Promotion Draws Blood
7. The Bards Convention
8. A Garden Gnome's Lament
9. Cheap - 0 - Air

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Jokes Make People Laugh

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I cannot tell a joke. Does that mean I can't make people laugh?

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How do you tell a joke to make people laugh?

About This Newsletter

A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.
Madeleine L’Engle

A smile starts on the lips, a grin spreads to the eyes, a chuckle comes from the belly; but a good laugh bursts forth from the soul, overflows, and bubbles all around.

Carolyn Birmingham

An optimist laughs to forget; a pessimist forgets to laugh.
Tom Nansbury

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.
Dr. Seuss

Letter From the Editor

I cannot tell a joke! I can write a funny story, as long as it is flash fiction. I can write a funny poem. I cannot tell a joke properly. I hear the joke, and I laugh. When I go to retell the joke, it does not come out of my mouth the way I heard or read it. The only explanation I can come up with, is that it loses something in the translation. Somewhere between reading or hearing the joke, part of it gets lost while it is wandering through my mind.

Somewhere, in the deep recesses of my subconscious mind are punch lines looking for their lost jokes. Punch lines, I forgot when I told the joke, that now wander aimlessly through the canyons, valleys, and forest of my mind looking for their lost questions or tensions that leads up to them. This scenario explains why, on occasion, the punch lines pop into my conscious mind without a build up or question.

I suppose, I could write the entire joke down when I hear or read it, but reading a joke from a piece of paper does not have the same effect on people that telling it from memory does. Telling a joke, without the proper punch line elicits stars that ask "What planet are you from?" Remembering the punch line hours or days later, does not do any good because the people I originally told the joke to are not present.

l do not know how to solve this dilemma, short of downloading a teleprompter app to my smartphone. Are there teleprompter apps? If these type of apps do not exist, they should. I am sure I am not the only person on Earth that cannot tell a joke. At least, with a teleprompter app I could glance at it without raising eyebrows. Everyone is always glancing at the smartphones, for one reason or another, while engaged in conversations.

Editors Picks

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We Were Almost There!!!  (E) A day at the beach #2138911 by LMs❤️BrewinMagic

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All Through DepartmentStore.Com   (E) A true story, my dealings with a un-named major department store just before Christmas #2171436 by Seabreeze

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Vampire Movie Promotion Draws Blood  (13+) Fictional News Release of an incident when vampires mix with movie goers (~1250 words) #1636772 by Wordsmitty ✍️

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THE BARDS CONVENTION  (13+) A "spirited" spoof of win-big-cash vanity poetry contests #1569451 by DRSmith

A Garden Gnome's Lament  (13+) There's gnome business like show business. #2171623 by Northwood

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