#caryons

Dorothée Gilbert.

Burlington Vermont: I was with a group from The School of Cinematography and Performing Arts (SOCAPA) visiting a studio. One of the members of our small group came up with this creation, so it was time to test our skills at studio project shoots - in a fun way! With Crayons! 

LOOKIN’ GOOD FOR A GEEZER

  NEWSPAPER ARTICLE ABOUT CRAYOLA INC.:

  What’s so funny about this? Some people must spend their entire lives looking for grammatical, spelling, punctuation, usage and word order mistakes. If they get paid for it, we call them editors. If they don’t, then they are just sad old people with nothing better to do than find fault with others, unless they happen to make jokes about these errors. Then they are smart, clever, and brilliant. Of course there are also sneaky types such as I who find these jokes online and elsewhere and post them which is what you’re reading here. That’s why we can laugh at the writing of the poor schnook who wrote the sentence in the joke. All the reporter wanted to do was tell us, the readers, that the Crayola company, famous for making the crayons we all used as children to color our coloring books, was 111 years old. Instead, the reporter told us that the company had a CEO, Mike Perry, who was 111 years old. Now if you look at Mike’s picture, you can see how well-preserved his is for a centenarian (that’s someone who’s over 100). To be fair to the reporter, the sentence can be interpreted both ways. But why sow the seeds of such confusion?. Why not just say that Mike Perry is the CEO of a 111 year old company, Crayola, Inc? Of course, if he did that, I’d be out of business and you wouldn’t be laughing. And THAT’s what’s so funny!

    This joke came from the blog World Wide Words, citing a July 30, 2014 article in the Sarasota Herald Tribune.