[NeonAges]

    Today's post is a quicky because it is something that I find so awesome that it kept me awake and forced, nay, compelled me to write.  If one were to know me, or more specifically, how my group of friends and I express ourselves, one would probably know that I love quirky humor be it insanely cheesy puns or wit that seems sophomoric at first glance.  The latter is my favorite type of humor as it is the type that seems like something that one of low intellect would deem humor, but upon further inspection, one would be able to infer that the joker has a grasp of higher wit, but simply refuses to conform to snobbish elitists and their need to distance themselves from toilet humor.  I like to do them one better by making jokes that sound like toilet humor that dances around smart humor and mingles with it only to fart in its face.
    Today I bring you what I would like to declare as "Singling a double entendre".  It is a love that I share with my good friend Alex.  I'm not sure when it was when we first fell in love with this concept of humor, but I think one of the first memorable occurances was when an exchange was had prior to one of our cookouts.  The dialogue ran thus:

(We had just purchased our Steaks and various dry rubs and marinades)
Alex:  Hey, we should go back to my place and rub our meat.
Alec:  Yea, then after that we could marinade our Steaks!

    Let me dissect this.  This technique of humor is very classic, meaning the response acts as a punchline that brings new meaning to the preceding statements.  Whether or not Alex was attempting a double entendre is not the issue here as it is the response offered that forces his statement to be realized as a double entendre; while I act as a character whom the literal meaning completely escapes, restating the obvious as if it were an alternative and/or the next step.  So thus, what was originally an innocent, but precariously naughty, statement about marinading steaks has now turned into an offer of homosexual happy-time by the introduction of a sly feaux-innocent comment.
     Notice also that this dissection or explanation of why something is funny is, in and of itself, a humor technique which I greatly admire that I have never seen demonstrated better than by my good friend Jason Ready.  But that's another article.
    Now that I have sufficiently explained this Smart-Dumbing humor technique, allow me to finish this article with another, more recent, example;

(After I told my friends that I was making a Sword for Rhiannon for Valentine's Day)
Alec:  The way I see it, why say I love you with flowers and chocolates when you can say it with swords and sex.  But seriously, yea, for Valentine's Day I'm giving her a stabbing apparatus.
Alex:  Yea, -and- you're giving her a sword.
(Laughter Ensues)

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