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I accepted long ago that I have an unusual sense of humor - I find roughly 98% of the manifested universe just hilarious - and that if I say something I think is funny there's about a 25-30% chance that other people will laugh. But every once in a while, words escape my face which I guess catch people offguard, usually things I find only marginally funny but for some reason strike some kind of humor master chord in folks. This has always happened to me. I accept it.

Tuesday I walked into work with coffee, at which point a coworker queried, "Where's mine?" I replied, "Erm, I left it at Starbucks." [pause...] "Oh man, and I paid for it, too. I feel so stupid."

This may not be an accurate transcription, because I didn't think it was that funny. But 3 people present laughed for a while, then actually complimented me on the "comeback," unheard of numbers for my performances. My theory is that every once in a while, I randomly hit on just the right timing, or cadence, or tone of voice or whetever it is that makes things funny that you can't reduce to a mathematical formula. And I can live with that.