An aviator alighted on a field and said to a rather well-dressed individual: "Here, mind my machine a minute, will you?"
"What?" the well-dressed individual snarled. "Me mind your machine? Why, I'm a United States Senator!"
"Well, what of it?" said the aviator. "I'll trust you."
SENSE OF HUMOR
"What of his sense of humor?"
"Well, he has to see a joke twice before he sees it once."
—Richard Kirk.
"A sense of humor is a help and a blessing through life," says Rear Admiral Buhler. "But even a sense of humor may exist in excess. I have in mind the case of a British soldier who was sentenced to be flogged. During the flogging he laughed continually. The harder the lash was laid on, the harder the soldier laughed.