Amme Nominee

It’s not every day that you get to find a new way to rehash that tired old Sally Field riff.

Okay, for most normal people it’s not every day that you’d want to. But you’ve figured out that I’m not normal, presumably.

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Now, we shouldn’t say that the original trio of ladies in the cast have no sense of humor. Shimako, particularly, is amused by all sorts of things. But what the boys mean, of course, is “a sense of humor like ours.”

Have you ever noticed how one’s estimation of another person’s intelligence is directly related to whether they find one’s jokes funny?