and Welcome to the
World of Short Humour
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What
is Short Humour?
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| Our Far Eastern, low cost,
pirate version of The Oxferd Inglish
Ducksionery explains Short
Humour as ‘Non-serious writing that is not
too long'. We defined
‘not too long’ as around 500 words, and
stories, poems and the like began to be written
that could be read in their entirety in less than
ninety seconds.
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| Why is Short
Humour needed? |
| With today's busy
lifestyles, there can barely be time to read
anything. Some
politicians and academics have even expressed
fears that written English might follow cuneiform
script and hieroglyphic writing as the preserve
of a few specialist academics.
Some of us
became equally concerned about the potential
effect on humour. Thus was created Short Humour
or SH, which can be read quickly at almost any
time and almost anywhere - see below.
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| What is the
purpose of The Short Humour
Site? |
| The purpose of this site
is to promote the reading and writing of SH both
in Britain and throughout the world and to
showcase work by writers of the genre. The site includes excerpts from the
seminal book: A Man of Few Words -
The Short Humour of Swan Morrison.
This is a collection one hundred examples of SH
with a connecting theme of life in the modern
world.
The site also includes Swan's next book as it is being written.
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| Will The
Short Humour Site showcase
Short Humour I have written? |
| We would love to. One of our aims is to generate an
archive of Short Humour for the benefit of all
Mankind.
If you would like to
contribute to this noble task, please see our Submission Guidelines.
We plan to publish an
anthology of our Writers' Showcase via lulu.com.
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| What is the
advantage of Short Humour as compared to other
forms of writing? |
| Many people have become
overwhelmed with despondence and guilt about all
the reading they have begun and then abandoned by
the third page. There
are no such probems with SH which is generally
over before the end of the second page.
Also, its brevity allows it
to be read in new situations:
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| When might I
read SH? |
| Opportunities to read SH
exist in numerous circumstances such as: Between stations on the metro.
During lovemaking.
During lovemaking between stations on the metro.
During free-fall skydiving - Those who
have undertaken parachute training will be only
too familiar with the mantra ‘Jump - Read
Short Humour story - Pull ripcord - Check
canopy’.
While driving long, boring, straight
stretches of motorway - In the UK,
driving while holding a mobile phone has been
banned. This has freed drivers’ hands to
turn pages.
At any time for members of religious cults
expecting the imminent end of the world.
While reading long, serious writing - Try
missing out two pages and reading SH instead.
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