I have decided to try and be funnier, using Homeopathic principles.

I wrote a fairly ordinary, almost amusing joke (you know, my usual), and cut up the 14 words, put them in a large bag and added another 1, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 words. This took a while. I then shook the bag and took out 14 words at random. Naturally these 14 words had retained the “memory” of my original joke, while the laws of Infinitesimals and Successions (ie diluting and jiggling) should have made my joke much more hilarious than it was in its raw, undiluted, unjiggled form. My joke had been “potentised”. But was it funnier? Here is my potentised joke:

Parents yard head drummer, subject the organisations took that intermittent previously patterns? Chinese quality!

Hmm. It worked!