JOKES - Within minutes of meeting me, people, often enduring torrid personal circumstances, find themselves succumbing to a rib-tickler. This surprises people who expect me to be po-faced, but I know more jokes than anyone else I know. It was Grandpa Sneddon who first encouraged me to write them down to use as icebreakers. Consequently, I have one for every conceivable situation, written down in thirty leather bound journals. Nina Kelly refers scathingly to my books of Jokes and Humorous Incidents, a phrase taken directly from Spencer who alleges it originated from our Grandfather. Not so! The only person who has ever referred to my journals as books of Jokes and Humorous Incidents is Spencer, so if anyone is to be mocked on that account it should be him.

My brother, unfortunately, has absolutely no sense of humour. Obviously, like most people, he thinks he has, but for him a humorous situation is based entirely upon someone else's embarrassment or misfortune. He's no idea how to tell a joke. I doubt if he even knows any. I know at least seven hundred. In her book, Nina refers to my “parp of laughter, echoing crudely around houses devastated by heartache, as harsh and inappropriate as the bray of a wounded seal.” This comes from Spencer who has always complained about my ‘stupid laughter'. He doesn't know how to laugh: he sniggers! When Spencer is amused nobody in the vicinity can escape the impression that he's laughing at them.

 

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