Jack Handy

On Saturday Night Live there was a skit on called, Deep Thoughts By Jack Handy. It was a great little piece that had dry humor in it. No slap stick humor for Jack, he was not like Larry, Moe or Curly. I enjoy slap stick humor but I also enjoy the dry intellectual humor. When I was going to college at McMurry there was about a dozen of us that had nearly every biology and advance chemistry class tougher because that was our major/minor. We would sit there in lab and crack jokes about enzymes or some random bone on a cat. One semester Peter Reed and myself swiped several vials of fruit flies from the genetics lab, to grow in our room. After a couple of weeks we had a lot of flies, with no real plan of what we were going to do. We though about letting them out in class, or the café, or the computer lab. However, we decided to let them out on our chemistry class trip to the waste water treatment plant. It was great, we let the go and within a few minutes everyone in the front of the van was visiting about the flies and where they came from. At one point the professor said, “I just don’t understand where all of these flies came from?” We though it was hilarious, but we were both majoring in Biology. Perhaps it was the stress of having to learn every bone, muscle and part of a cat, or maybe it was the food they feed us, but we talked about it for months.

Below is a quote from Jack Handy, and a link to the website.

"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."

Jack Handy