An Explanation for Laughter
How come even though sometimes your answers are not only not funny, but stupid, I laugh anyway?
———- from Angela St. John of Columbia Falls, MT
Laughter is an involuntary reflex of the soptic nerve, a thin cord that stretches from the Pons Idiosa to the Magellenic Clouds of the lower back. When faced with a seemingly irreconcilable absurdity, the cord stretches to the snapping point. What follows is either laughter or death, depending on the severity of the absurdity. That’s why each and every answer I give to your stupidity is first examined by the Undertaker’s Laboratory to insure that it will not stretch the soptic nerve beyond the snapping point. Science facts should not be lethal.
