No, I write " funny " when I can.
I used to write the newsletter for my local BP gun club, and always tried to add some human element to it, by naming people who were at the last shoot, and if we talked about something, or worse, if they ignorred me, I would make something up that might be a little risque, or exaggerate something they said, just to get a rise out of them, and entertain the rest of the members. It brought a lot of members out to monthly club shoots, just to find out what the heck was really going on! And, our founder, who emigrated to British Columbia almost 40 years ago, made a point to call me to ask if I was going to be at a July shoot, because he was coming down to attend a wedding, and wanted to be sure to meet me. He could not wait to meet all the people I had poked fun at in the newsletters he got, and told me that when the mail came, his whole family would stop and the newsletter from our club was the first thing they would read! I was very flattered by his comments, and talked to the wife of our club treasurer, who was my usual foil, about it. She was amused and told me that her whole family liked all the things I managed to allude to that made it sound like she was doing some things she should not be doing, even though it made her embarrassed, and a bit angry. They all knew that it was said in fun, and her husband knew I was just using his wife to get a few laughs, without ever being mean.She was always trying to come up with a perfect criticism to lay on me, and would come after me as soon as I arrived at the club. In fact, people used to see me drive up, look around for Lynn, and head for the spot between the two of us, so they wouldn't miss a word. They knew she was going to try to tell me off, for what i wrote about her in the newsletter, and they knew I was going to come back with another smart remark, that would stop her in her tracks. Of course, that is the stuff that made it into the newsletter so that the members who could not get there could keep up with the " feud ". We were very much like the Roadrunner, and Wile E. Coyote, with me being the Roadrunner. We put on a good show, even if it was all ad libbed.
Humor does take work, but its a pleasant break for me, and I would rather write funny than be sober all the time. Here, so many of the questions deal with techniques and facts its pretty hard to say much that is funny and still maintain any credibility. I am trying to help people avoid spending the hours I wasted chasing ideas that won't work. I am torn, sometimes, between answering, or just letting these new shooters learn from their own mistakes. But, when they have the intelligence to find this forum, and ask the question, they deserve the best advice we can give them. Its the idiots out there that won't ask questions that have to learn from their own mistakes. I can't do anything about them, but I can surely help the ones who do ask. It pays the rent for the space I occupy on Earth, don't you know?
