accused me of having a mischevous streak.

I was only briefly taken aback as he cleaned the pudding out of his hair, and realized he was probably correct. I don’t like to see people in pain… well, I don’t like to see most people in pain…

Actually I would rather not see the people I care about in any pain, but to watch it on TV or to take pleasure in someone’s discomfort is a distinctly human characteristic. This is why slapstick continues to be popular, why I’m looking forward to the Three Stooges movie, why I love Jackass, why I like seeing the look on people’s faces when they realize I’ve krazy glued the soles of their feet together as they slept.

A guy who will buy a quart of Cyanoacrilate glue is a guy who will buy seven pounds of gunpowder, keep tons of fertilizer where he can put his hands on it easily, or carry a gallon container of Icy Hot in his car.

Animals don’t get humor. Oh, I’m sure animals can be amused, but they don’t get humor the way humans get it. I mean, if you strut out a bunch of funny things in front of the average housecat, it just gets confused. Witness:

Primates come closer. I mean, even monkeys understand scatalogical humor

If this isn’t proof of Man’s evolution from ape I can’t tell what would be.

And, unlike the average liberal, an ape can be trained to do higher level humor

Anyway, humor is the only thing these days that keeps me from showing up somewhere with a quart of crazy glue and some cannon fuse.