Humour Writing
'Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.'
William James(1842-1910, American psychologist and philosopher)
image copyright, Cliona Brophy
Humour Writing
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'Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.' William James(1842-1910, American psychologist and philosopher) |
image copyright, Cliona Brophy |
Grace's Humour Writing
Grace studied creative writing with Sue Townsend (best-selling author of ‘The Diary of Adrian Mole’) in Skyros, Greece in 2001. She aims to incorporate a light sense of humour, irony, and her natural sarcasm into all her writing. Thus far this has resulted in her winning the illustrious (hint: that was sarcasm) Murray the Chicken Prize for Literature, running up in the now defunct Booger Prize for humourous flash fiction, and publishing various short fiction and non-fiction features with a thread of humour in them (full details are available here).
Invented Words
Inspired by the wit who invented the word quiz, Grace always loved daft words and convincing people that they really do exist (particularly if they helped her to win at Scrabble). Her favourite is 'strude' (creators Grace Tierney and Brian Ellerker) which is, of course, the past tense of the verb 'stride' *. This term now means the act of convincing your victim that an invented word means what you say it means.
Her colleague, Donal McCarthy has also contributed
'glang-pin' which is the non-existant yet essential car-part which when loose, or Heaven
forbid missing, is the source of all unknown automobile rattlings. Try it on your
motor-mechanic the next time you're talking to him.
Marie's Wit and Wisdom (copyright Marie
O'Dwyer)
1. You can't beat a good cup of tea. You could try but
you'd only get splashed.
2. Struggled out of bed, well, when you wait all week for the lie-in, you try to get a
good one.
3. Did more spring cleaning. Lots done but still more to do. Darn me for being so
thorough.
4. When on holiday its important to fit in as many desserts as possible. I'm sure it's
good for the economy
5. Had a nice hot chocolate break this morning. Now its time to get to work. Actually no,
I tell a lie, it's lunchtime.
* the past tense of stride is, in fact, strode, but you'd be surprised how few people know that.
All photography and text on these pages, except when otherwise indicated, are copyright Grace Tierney, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008