Mr ITW doesn't have Alzheimer's but his memory is failing. Sounds far too real, too possible, to be funny.

No, wait a minute. Maybe I haven't.

My mother didn't have Alzheimer's, but she did have progressive dementia the last five years of her life. She died basically because she forgot that she was supposed to eat to continue to live.


On another note. As long as we're posting possibly offensive jokes in a men's forum.

A male patient is seeing his doctor.

The doctor says "You really are going to have to stop masturbating".

The patient says "Why is that, doctor?"

The doctor replies, "Because I am trying to examine you."

Not a great joke, but I don't find it offensive.

The protragonist, uh, wasn't from around here, so he didn't understand humor until he saw two monkeys in the zoo fighting. At that point he understood humor because it's always about someone's misfortune.

I had thought — I had been told — that a 'funny' thing is a thing of a goodness. It isn't. Not ever is it funny to the person it happens to. Like that sheriff without his pants. The goodness is in the laughing itself. I grok it is a bravery . . . and a sharing… against pain and sorrow and defeat.