Lights Out, one of many radio plays written by written by Arch Oboler, "Perhaps the best remembered story from this series of Lights Out is Chicken Heart. In that story, the tiny heart of a chicken, kept alive in a Petri dish in a lab, grows exponentially until it covers the entire earth. Oboler was very innovative with sound effects, and the insistent beating heart creates much of the terror in the broadcast. " (Wiki)
Missionary gets captured by the local ethnics and every day they slash him with a knife and drink a cup of his blood. This goes on for a week, then the missionary calls over the head of the tribe and he says, “Look buddy—I’m tired of being stuck for the drinks.” (Rimshot)
Tourist comes up to the old farmer, says, “Hey, them the Catskill mountains?” Old farmer says, “Nope. Them cats kill mice.”
And Alexandr beat the Roman Catholic Teutonic Knights when the ice on the River Peipus broke under the weight of the Knights’ horses and armor. And Londo and G’Kar were stuck in an elevator for several hours which improved their relations not.
He even missed the pun: “punctilious” = “a fine point, particular or detail…” “punchinelo.” = “..any grotesque or absurd person or thing…” (Am. College Dict.)I give myself at least a “B.”
What? Do I need to type a few quote marks or type “Nod, nod, wink,wink,yaknowwhatImean, yaknowwhatImean, saynomore, saynomore?”Obfuscate? No. Try “nitpick” or “punctilious” as in the closely related “punchinelo.”And that’s “grammar.”
“Gosh, I’m hungry, Mary! Whadda got to eat around here?”“Well, Percy, I’ve got some bratwurst and some beer.”“Ah, great! I’ll have a frank and a stein.”“Hummm…Ya know, I just got an idea for my book…”
Ching Shih: Not bad for a pirate who wore paper armor.