Funny Things: A Joke Book With a Few Sombre Yarns: A Joke Book With a Few Sombre Yarns, #1

By Sammy Madden

This is the first  joke book in the A Joke Book with a Few Sombre Yarns series – original content throughout.  Each book focuses on a particular subject and does a great job of making its author laugh and cry – not bad for a man who knows nothing about comedy or tragedy. Man-made things... Cancel that! Woman-made things... Cancel that! Things and places that are made and arranged by human beings – the author guarantees he will review the status of "human beings" every week, or every day rather, to insure it maintains a satisfactory approval rating – will be the focus of this book. Phew!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sammy Madden
• Release date: Dec 17, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393377917

Book preview

Introduction to Series

This is the first joke book in the A Joke Book with a Few Sombre Yarns series – original content throughout. Each book focuses on a particular subject and does a great job of making its author laugh and cry – not bad for a man who knows nothing about comedy or tragedy. Man-made things… Cancel that! Woman-made things… Cancel that! Things and places that are made and arranged by human beings – the author guarantees he will review the status of human beings every week, or every day rather, to insure it maintains a satisfactory approval rating – will be the focus of this book. Phew!

The author doesn’t want to appear desperate or pathetic or pushy, but if you survive this book without becoming bored to death with the inanity of it all, you might have a natural tolerance to survive other titles in the series and even perhaps a post-apocalyptic hellscape. Let’s face it, even if you got this far, you must be something of a stoical type.

Correction: The author is, without a shadow of a doubt, absolutely desperate and pathetic, and you wouldn’t be wrong if you were to consider this closing remark a little pushy, but he’s so poor, so very, very poor.

The Waterskin

Many times, between early morning and late afternoon, the young man rose briefly above his pain-laden slumber. When he finally came around, he found himself in a world far away from the strictures of family and small town. It felt like he had drifted down to this spot from a great height. The body he found himself in was curled around a central knot.