Here's a joke for you:


Remember:

Laughter is the best medicine!

Unless you're treating diarrhea.











Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Dealing with negative reviews

If we’ve got books and products out there in the world, available for purchase to anyone who is willing to buy, then we have to be ready to accept negative reviews.
Opinions are subjective, and everyone has a right to have one.
And I wouldn’t even be talking about this subject if it weren’t for the fact that my very first review was negative. And not just negative, but mean.
In today’s cynical, bullying, dark and mean internet culture, many of the negative reviews we receive are just a high tech version of heckling. Lonely, one-hand-typing,  basement dwelling bullies are just waiting for the opportunity to show the world how superior they are by telling (as they imagine) the world how much your book or product sucks.
And I’m okay with that. Really. It’s part of the game today. I expected negative reviews the moment I put my book up for sale. Not everyone was going to like my book.
But here’s my problem today:
If you’re going to leave a negative review for my book, you really should read it first.
My book is about humor, and joke telling, and negative reviews illustrate joke telling principles I teach. If you’re going to leave a snotty review, I’m going to turn you into a joke.
Again, I don’t want to whine and complain about a negative review, I just thought that maybe by examining this negative review that started my book campaign, maybe I could help others understand their own negative reviews.
Let’s take a look.
Here’s my first special review:
“This is a terrible book - it is misleading as you won't learn much about how to communicate better with humor - just a bunch of random jokes that aren't even funny.”
First: There are thirteen chapters of joke telling instruction and how joke telling relates to all other kinds of communication. If you’re looking for “step 1, step 2, step 3”, you need to look in the “special” book section. But this part is STILL acceptable. The reviewer didn’t like the instruction. Okay.
Second: A collection of jokes is random by nature.  You were expecting specific jokes?
And finally: If you don’t think the jokes in my book are funny, then you REALLY need this book, because you don’t GET jokes. These are the funniest jokes in the world. I’ve collected them for twenty five years. I’m sorry, but this is not subject to opinion. These jokes come from joke telling masters. Many are age old classics. If you don’t find these jokes funny, talk to me! I can help. You can learn to have a sense of humor.
So there you have it. I received a negative review, and then I ranted.

I hope this will help you better understand the sloping foreheads that are behind overly negative reviews.

Here's the link to my book so you can see for yourself:
You Must Be Joking!

And here's our facebook page:
Click here for our facebook page


Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Time for a new joke!

This one raised a few eyebrows, and frankly, those are my favorite jokes:

After a night on the town, a young woman invited her date into the house.
"You can't make any noise," she warned him. "My parents are in bed and if they find out you’re here, they'll kill us."
The couple started kissing on the sofa, but after a while the young man said, "I have to go to the bathroom!"
“You can’t use the bathroom, it’s right by my parent’s room. They’ll hear you!”
“But I really have to go!”
“Well,” she replied. "Just, use the kitchen sink."
So he tip toed to the kitchen. A few minutes later, he popped his head around the door and asked,
"Do you have any toilet paper, or should I just use the dish towel?"




Tuesday, December 15, 2015

A few little jokes for December

A man walks in to a grocery store and asks, "Do you have helicopter flavored chips?"
"Nope," says the clerk. "Just plane ones."

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Astronomy is looking up.

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If having a dog has taught me anything, it's how to eat a cookie very quietly.


Thursday, December 10, 2015

Lots of news today!

First:
You Must Be Joking, is now available in paperback through CreateSpace. The paperback option is available through the Kindle site as well.

You Must Be Joking, Kindle link here.

You Must Be Joking, CreateSpace link here.

So, please check those links!

Second:

My mid-December book give-a-way is here!
How do you win?
JUST ASK FOR A BOOK!

I'll give two away today!


Thursday, December 3, 2015

Be nice.


Mean people tell terrible jokes. They want to hurt people. They want to embarrass people.
When a nice person tells a joke, the audience knows that the joke teller wants them to laugh. The joke teller wants the audience to be happy, and they can tell!
So be gregarious! Be happy and friendly. Your audience will respond better to your jokes. If they feel that you are hostile, they will be defensive.
Yes, there are hostile comics. There are insult comics. But humor like that is a specialty, and is better to be left to the professionals.
Never forget: Jokes are about laughing and happiness. Be happy and friendly. You want your audience to laugh and be happy. They’ll understand, and they’ll like your joke more.

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

here's a little joke:

Thomas Edison said that genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety nine percent perspiration.
I hate to think of someone that sweaty working with electricity.