I get a lot of Imponderables from News of The Weird or from my local New York papers. (New York’s Motto: “We’re weird, but not as weird as L.A.”) So today we go to the weirdest part of Los Angeles, Hollywood.
Yup, that’s a barrel of laughs. I’m sure Michael J. Fox is still laughing over that one. He’s been enjoying the humor of Parkinson’s for decades now.
E! rushed out an apology. “We regret the insensitive classification of Michael J Fox’s Parkinson’s diagnosis during our E online live stream. We understand the serious nature of the disease and sincerely apologize.”
Who wrote that “fun fact”? And who approved it?
The question is Imponderable. But I think I unearthed the answer.
A couple of days a go I picked outa list of funny words from a much larger list of not-so-funny but allegedly funny words. It occurred to me today that a particular word was left out: Boner. Now there was a time when that was a perfectly acceptable word for screw-up or mistake but that time has passed. Boner is mostly thought of in a funny sexual context. We all know, for example, the Joker’s boner.
And now I have a couple more examples. This first one is a book illustrated by all-time classic illustrator and author Dr. Seuss.
And here are some earlier boners. The first one is really my favorite. Check the author.
“Boners. By Those Who Pulled Them.” There is no way that today there could be an innocent explanation for that. Everyone goes right to the prurient. And why not? That’s funny!
Gay is another word that has taken on a whole new context. It used to simply mean “fun,” like in the Flintstones opening.
“We’ll have a gay old time!”
So in this era of giggling and guffaws, can a book like this ever be published with a serious title as “Gay Time?’
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