What Strikes You Funny?

If you were to do a search on "humor" on the Internet you would garner close to 455,000,000 hits. Everyone is searching for something that makes them laugh. There is college humor, job humor, philosophical humor and even a directory of Yahoo humor. There is even a site devoted to clean jokes, funny pictures, cartoons, funny audio, funny videos, and so much more. It is called, Aha Jokes and you can visit it here.

There are often postings on Facebook or emails that arrive in my inbox that are meant to be humorous. Sometimes I laugh and sometimes I just don't believe that they are all that funny. I started to reminisce about one of my favorite jokes that I ever heard. Believe me when I tell you that I have forgotten my fair share of punch lines through the years. You know when you start to tell a joke and suddenly cannot remember how to finish it. This is one that I'll never forget.

It involves a trio of sorts: old woman, a cat and a genie in a lamp.

It went like this:

An old woman lived alone in her home with her cat. One day, she was rummaging through the attic and she came across a lamp. She rubbed it and out popped a genie from the lamp.

"Your wishes are my command. You have three wishes. Use them wisely."

"Oh dear, three wishes...I don't know...I wish I was rich."

"Your wish is granted." Poof, suddenly the woman was surrounded by gold, silver and riches of all kinds.

"Oh dear, second wish - let me see." She thought long and hard and said, "I wish I was a young and beautiful woman again to enjoy these riches."

"Your wish is granted." Poof, the old woman was transformed into a stunning beauty but as she looked around, she suddenly realized that she was beautiful and rich but very all alone.

The genie said, "C'mon lady, I don't have all day. One wish left, make it good."

"Oh my, I wish my old and faithful cat, Buddy, was a handsome young prince."

"That's it, last wish coming right up." Poof and the genie vanished.

The woman turned and standing behind her was Buddy - her faithful companion through the years who was now a handsome young prince. Buddy took her in his arms, inhaled the sweetness of her youth, kissed her tenderly on the cheek and whispered in her ear,

"Now, aren't you sorry that you had me neutered?"

C'mon, you're smiling, you know it, right?

Source:

http://dir.yahoo.com/entertainment/humor/

http://www.ahajokes.com/

My memory of a joke that struck me funny!