When I was the judge of a weekly newspaper humor contest in the 1990s, part of my job was to give readers an example of a potentially winning entry for each new competition. You might think that I’d be the best person to come up with jokes that would impress the judge, who was me. But I wasn’t. Week after week, the eventual winning entry was better than my example had been. One week, for instance, the contest was to write a riddle that is answered by a painful pun on someone’s name. My example was: Read full article > >

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Gene Weingarten: Comedy of errors

When I was the judge of a weekly newspaper humor contest in the 1990s, part of my job was to give readers an example of a potentially winning entry for each new competition. You might think that I’d be the best person to come up with jokes that would impress the judge, who was me. But I wasn’t. Week after week, the eventual winning entry was better than my example had been. One week, for instance, the contest was to write a riddle that is answered by a painful pun on someone’s name. My example was: Read full article > >

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Gene Weingarten: Comedy of errors

If you take aspirin, you’ve got a pain reliever, heart attack preventer and possible cancer preventer rolled into one tablet. You might think that whoever invented aspirin is a genius, but the truth is humans have been using its natural equivalent for thousands of years.

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Old aspirin is new ‘miracle’ drug