Anything For a Cheap Laugh

A new study out of Washington University in St. Louis says that one's sense of humor dimishes as one gets older, and things that used to be funny no longer are. Conversely, one sees humor where there is none. I'm not so sure that's an age thing. There have always been lots of things that tickle me and seem to leave other people cold. I laughed out loud once at a perfectly awful story about a group of Russian fisherman whose boat with their dead bodies aboard was found drifting in the open ocean. Turns out they had run out of vodka, and at the end were so desperate they were gulping down paint thinner. I wondered, neat or with pineapple juice? This was years ago, and I still chuckle about it. See what I mean? I wish I could figure out how to turn it into a cartoon.