Laughing Matters is a practical resource book dealing with humour in the language classroom. Thanks and acknowledgments vii Introduction 1(7) Funny starts 8(19) Wink first 8(1) Funny names 9(1) Hi, Harry! 10(1) Buzz 10(1) Mr Roy's watch 11(1) O'Grady says 12(1) Five laughs 13(1) The laugh epidemic 14(1) Catch them laughing! 15(1) Laugh till you drop 16(1) Laughing quotes 17(2) A sense of humour 19(1) He who laughs last... 20(1) Look into the mirror! 21(1) Smiles and jokes 22(2) Funny news 24(1) The Crazy Award 25(2) Jokes and wisecracks 27(17) Waiter, waiter! 27(2) There's a fly in my soup! 29(1) Next please! 30(1) Which do you want first? 31(2) Entangled two-liners 33(1) `Unfunny' dialogues 34(2) Expanding dialogues 36(1) Laugh in prison! 37(2) The rabbit and the butcher 39(1) Snails and mushrooms 40(2) The interpreter 42(2) Puns and puzzles 44(27) Twist your tongue! 44(3) Knock-knock! 47(3) Punny riddles 50(2) Utter connections 52(2) An intelligence test 54(2) Coded messages 56(3) The felt hat 59(1) Fit for a pig 60(2) Call me a taxi! 62(1) And the winner is... 63(2) Oxymora 65(1) Anagrams 66(2) Palindromes 68(3) Proverbs and quotations 71(25) Mice and cats 71(2) Fake or real? 73(2) Anti-proverbs 75(2) Hidden proverbs 77(2) Quotes on books 79(1) Pair us up! 80(2) Twisted quotes 82(2) Ham and eggs 84(1) Go to the polls 85(2) Graffiti artists at work 87(1) Urban philosophers 88(2) Deadly quotations 90(2) Epitaphs 92(2) The House of Wisdom 94(2) Poems and songs 96(28) Jabberwocky 96(3) In a dark dark wood 99(1) Old limericks - old people 100(3) Witness reports 103(1) Two-way translations 104(2) From verse to prose 106(1) Little Red Riding Hood 107(3) I wish I didn't talk so much 110(2) The pessimist 112(2) The disappearing song 114(2) Billy Boy (and Lilly Girl) 116(2) I wonder who I am 118(1) There was an old lady 119(5) Pictures and images 124(20) Don't panic! 124(1) Sky-high with grimaces 125(2) Doctor Rabbit 127(2) Don't exaggerate! 129(2) You've got cows 131(1) All wired up 132(2) Children's games 134(2) Captionless cartoons 136(2) In my mind's eye... 138(2) Stupid questions - snappy answers 140(1) A cartoon exhibition 141(1) Please touch the exhibits! 142(2) Stories and anecdotes 144(35) Amazing titles 144(2) The stone soup 146(2) Nasreddin anecdotes 148(3) The sages of Chelm 151(2) British anecdotes 153(2) The hobbyhorse 155(4) Urban myths 159(3) Story relay 162(1) Can you imagine? 163(2) Call my bluff! 165(4) Mumble-jumble 169(1) Buzz off! 170(4) Catch-22 174(3) The mini-novel 177(2) Sketches and dialogues 179(27) Group mime story 179(1) Silent movie scripts 180(2) Charades 182(2) I'm a little deaf 184(2) Repeats 186(3) Yuk, yuk... 189(1) Life in a village 190(2) The bunny 192(2) What a small world! 194(2) And it's a big IF! 196(2) Talking objects 198(1) Mad libs 199(2) The pancake 201(5) Errors and failures 206(27) It makes all the difference! 206(2) Are you sure, sir? 208(2) Vot a relef! 210(2) Teeth and beeth 212(1) Mistakes all around 213(2) Enjoy your stay! 215(2) You can't be serious! 217(1) Hot off the press 218(2) Sad consequences 220(1) Useless inventions 221(2) The art of being wrong 223(3) A daft letter 226(3) The belly-dancer 229(2) The Secret Society of Incompetents 231(2) Children and schools 233(23) What a change 233(2) Excuses, excuses 235(1) Telltales and others 236(3) Cheeky, eh? 239(2) He's a bit slow 241(1) Student bloopers 242(2) Teacher bloopers 244(2) A big de pottment 246(4) Be more English than the English! 250(1) InNOcent letter$ 251(2) Don't do this! Don't do that! 253(3) Bibliography 256(2) Index 258