Professor of International Relations
School of Government and Public Policy

A Lighter Side: Wit & Wisdom

Welcome to Spike's wit and wisdom page. All of the following have come to me through email correspondence and I am unable to vouch for their veracity or know whether some of them should be attributed to particular sources. I share them in the spirit of 'lightening up' and also 'learning from laughter.' Thanks to the friends/colleagues who circulated them. And I welcome more humor contributions via email: spikep@u.arizona.edu. Enjoy!

• Paraprosdokian Sentences (PDF)
• Assorted Amusements
• Religiously Laughing
• What Children Think and Say
• Linguistically Laughing
• Not Entirely Politically Correct
• Apparently Misstated
• Legally Laughing
• Living in 1500s
• Living in 2006
• Brains of Britian
• Englishisms
• Ponderisms
• Fun Children Musings
• More Fun Children Musings (PDF)
• Fun Jesus Stereotypes
• One-Line Funnies
• Fun Sentence Switches