IT IS A THIN LINE I WALK EACH DAY WITH 'GROANER'S CORNER'

 NICE SKIES OUT OVER LAKE HURON THIS MORNING

If we can't laugh at ourselves and find the humorous side of our beings I think it is maybe a sad statement about our well-being.  With the way things are in the world at the moment, it is more important than ever to try and find a glimmer of humor somewhere.  It is an increasingly fine line I walk with Groaner's Corner each day treading lightly so as not to step on all the raw nerve endings lying about these days, mine included.  When I first started Groaner's Corner back in the summer of 2009 I set a few guidelines for myself.  I would not post any jokes with swearing or off-color sexual content.  No, I'm not a prude but I didn't feel my blog was the place for jokes like that.  In this highly charged political era, I have also learned to stay away from political jokes as well simply because of the angered negativity it brings out in so many people.  I once questioned religious jokes and had a reader email to say, "keep them coming because I print them and put them on our church's bulletin board where most everybody gets a laugh out of them".  I thought to myself, now there's a congregation of people with the right attitude who are able to have a light-hearted chuckle at life.  How sad if we can't somehow see the humorous side of our stumbles, foibles, misadventures, mistakes, and conditions.  Having blogged about depression over the years I well know the need for humor in our lives.  So what's the solution?  Scrap Groaner's Corner because a particular joke might offend someone somewhere or keep it going knowing most people will see and understand the humor for what it is.  A fleeting moment of relief to ease one's troubled mind.  A ray of humor is always welcome in these dark days whether it comes in the form of a joke, a quip from a quick-witted friend, an old Happy Days TV show, a puppy dog doing somersaults, or a current stand-up comedian who can actually do his or her entire skit without all the usual swearing and accompanying cheesy sex jokes.  I wonder how many remember how Red Skelton made us laugh years ago.  Hey, remember Flip Wilson, Tim Conway and Don Knotts.  So, I will continue to walk my thin line with Groaner's Corner each day with no intentional ill intent for anyone.  If you can't find the honest humor in the jokes and cartoons I post and you can't have an occasional laugh at yourself or at me, I suggest you probably should spend some time reading about Quantum Physics or learning about the Riemann hypothesis, P versus NP problem, or Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture.  How about the Hodge conjecture, Navier-Stokes equation versus the Yang-Mills theory, and Poincaré conjecture.  Not too much humor in that stuff I should think.  Good luck, keep smiling, and try to find yourself a little extra laughter along the way in these difficult times.............. 

 THAT BIG LUMP OF ICE IS HARDLY RECOGNIZABLE AS BAYFIELD'S SOUTH PIER

GROANER'S CORNER:((  One night, a lady stumbled into the police station with a black eye. She claimed she heard a noise in her backyard and went to investigate. The next thing she knew, she was hit in the eye and knocked out cold.  An officer was sent to her house to investigate, and he returned 1-1/2 hours later with a black eye.  "Did you get hit by the same person?" his captain asked.  "No," he replied. "I stepped on the same rake."  

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