Humor Hall of Fame

Cartoon by Chris Weyant

Tunisians, I’ve learned, are known for being generous with compliments. As I walked along the harbor with my husband one day, a Tunisian man shouted to him, “Hey, you a very lucky man! Your woman has big legs!” I could have done without such flattery.

—TRAVELMATCH.CO.UK

Throughout our tour of an early American bathhouse in Hot Springs, Arkansas, I explained to my four-year-old grandson what people once did there. When we came upon a mannequin at a desk, I told him, “She was probably writing a letter home to her friends telling them about her vacation to Hot Springs.” My grandson asked, “And then she died and they stuffed her?”

—CYNTHIA FRANKLIN GRENADA, MISSISSIPPI

On our way to go spelunking, we got lost on a country road. We stopped to ask a farmer, “Is this the road to Waynesville?” “Yes, it is,” he replied. As we started to drive off, we barely heard him add, “But you’re going the wrong way.”

—DOUG HISSONG CYPRESS, TEXAS