My object all sublime
As an experiment, You Don’t Say will post an occasional short video presenting a joke or an anecdote literary or historical. Today’s “Surely you jest: The three brothers” is the first. The times have become so difficult, particularly for those of us who work at newspapers, that a source of innocent merriment did not seem out of place.
I do, however, have perpetually in my daughter’s oft-repeated admonishment, “You’re not as funny as you think you are.”
If you agree with Alice, by all means say so. But also feel free to recommend jokes or anecdotes that you would like to have told.
Comments
Good stuff. Even better if one happens to be in Mick O'Shea's between Ash Wednesday and St. Pat's.
Posted by: jamie hunt | December 11, 2008 11:43 AM
I think you're more funny than you think you are.
Posted by: Laura Lee | December 11, 2008 12:05 PM
Very funny. Keep them coming.
Posted by: dylan | December 11, 2008 4:14 PM
I enjoyed your joke, and your telling of it is wonderful, but there seems to be a typo in the written introduction to this new and promising department, the name of which is, surely, "Surely You Jest" (the heading for the video installment is correct, I think).
JEM: Indeed. Fixed. Thanks.
Posted by: Rawley | December 13, 2008 7:22 AM
I dunno ... I think "Alice" is a sweet name for the daughter of a bow-tie maven.
Posted by: c o'donnell | December 18, 2008 5:04 PM