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From the Miscellaneous Dishonorable Mentions:
With wild gesticulations and loud, gutteral shouts, "Father Steve" jerked the desperately ill patient back and forth while pelting him with oil, dousing him with holy water, and beating him vigorously about the head with a pocket New Testament (the words of Jesus being written in red) in his own unique version of Xtreme Unction.
Rev. William F. Charles
Birmingham, AL
I had no idea our resident padre was so cutting-edge!
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Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2001 Results Thanks a lot, caradea I spent much too much time reading the entries but they just hit my funny bone.  !
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Allo wow,
What does that mean when you say they hit your funny bone?
Isn't your funny bone the space on the outside of your elbow that really smarts when you bang it?
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Hi, bel - as no-one else is answering (perhaps they have understood and I have misunderstood, that your question was rhetorical?? no matter, I wil press on anyway!) may I offer a word of explication.
Your "funny-bone" is the bone which runs from shoulder to elbow - effectively keeping the two joints apart. It is the end of this bone which you knock so painfully. Its anatomical name is humerus which has been jocularly translated into "funny bone", fairly obviously, I guess.
Dr Bill is stretching the term even further by suggesting that this "humerus" bone is the seat of one's appreciation of "humour".
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Ah, Rhu--dear bel was right in her assesment -- and i hope Dr Bill (or an other of our doc's) will fill in the details (and you where too!)
there is a nerve the runs on the out side of bone-- (from the humerus to the (radia? unla?) at the point of the elbow. (it is rare for major nerves to run so close to the skin,) if you bump your elbow at the point where the nerve is closest to the skin- you experience a sharp unusual pain-- you have bumped your "funny bone" --
I don't think the play on Humerus/humorous is known by most-- but every culture has noticed the special reaction that occurs when you bump just the (wrong) right spot on your elbow.--even ones that don't use our latin names for bones!
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