Is My Sense Of Humor That Odd?

I received an email from a co-worker a couple of days ago that went something like this:

“Is there a local annual event, a local tradition, a local cool thing to do that we can have the writers start researching for our Winter Holiday magazine? Any great ideas? I had thoughts about downtown Red Bluff but I'd like something closer to Redding.”

I replied, via email:

"Cottonwood has an interesting, albeit politically incorrect, tradition where the local elected officials dress up in Medieval garb (tunics, capes, etc) and conduct jousting matches on donkeys substituting Christmas trees for the traditional lances. When done they regale the stunned onlookers with stories of alien abduction whilst washing down Buckley's cough syrup.

Hey, may make for an interesting story…”

So she forwards this “idea” and gets the ball rolling on a story for the magazine. I had to, of course, intercept the thing before the writer had a chance to start his/ her research on the X-Mas donkey jousting.

I’m not even sure Cottonwood has “local elected officials”.

I just wanted to lighten the mood, lessen the tension, but apparently this person either thought a) it was a great lead on a peculiar local Christmas tradition and would make an excellent story or b) that they simply glanced and forwarded the email without really reading it.

Lots of people don’t get my warped sense of humor, but some do. SCTV, Monty Python, Christopher Guest and Reno 911 fans get it. People who think Larry The Cable Guy is the funniest thing since Gomer Pyle do not.

For example, I think the following “song collage” by They Might Be Giants (I knew I’d work music in here somehow!) is extremely funny. Not neccessarily the video, but the song (entitled 'Fingertips') itself. As a matter of fact I think it's brilliant.

But like I said, I may be a little tetched in the head.