W: Have we agreed where we’re going to meet John on Sunday
M: Well, I talked to the others and nobody seemed to have any idea where they wanted to go.
W: I thought we were going to that restaurant.., what was it
M: ... the McDonald’s at the end of Beijing Road--I suggested it a long time ago.
W: Well--I think we should agree on that.
M: OK, shall I phone the others now
W: No, thanks. It is better for me to do that!
Analysts have their go at humor, and I have read some of this interpretative literature, (1) without being greatly instructed. Humor can be (2) , (3) a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are (4) to any but the pure scientific mind.
One of the things (5) said about humorists is that they are really very sad ’people clowns with a breaking heart. There is some truth in it, but it is badly (6) . It would be more (7) , I think, to say that there is a deep vein of melancholy running through everyone’s life and that the humorist, perhaps more (8) of it than some others, compensates for it actively and (9) Humorists fatten on troubles. They have always made trouble (10) They struggle along with a good will and endure pain (11) , knowing how well it will (12) them in the sweet by and by. You find them wrestling with foreign languages, fighting folding ironing ho
A. taste
B. steer
C. tackle
D. stir
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