The comedian in this clip isn’t that funny, and for the first couple minutes of this video, you’ll wonder why the three audience members called up on stage are all laughing.
But hurriedly jam-packing a brain is akin to speed-packing a cheap suitcase, as most students quickly learn — it holds its new load for a while, then most everything falls out.
There have been many attempts, but they don’t evoke anywhere near the same responses as puppies, kittens or even hamsters. They are toys, not companions.
One morning I was listening to the radio with my husband Michael when someone said: ‘The world's tragedy is this: men love women, women love children and children love hamsters.
That was how women with lovers lived in the wicked old societies, in apartments with all the rooms on one floor, and all the indecent propinquities that their novels described.