It's just an amusing thought.
Which is an amusing thought: we invent statins to counteract our fat-fuelled, sedentary lifestyles, and then aphrodisiacs to counteract our relationship choices, which, it turns out, we actually don't find very sexy.
An amusing thought occurred to me as I stood outside Caesars Palace, talking to Fox5's Elizabeth Watts: there's probably no other city on earth in which a man wanting to stay an entire month would constitute headline news.
But mandating that people sit still and forcibly birth amusing thoughts into existence does not at all reflect how we spend time with our thoughts in everyday life.
Now, I am not by nature a very funny person, though I do have what I think are some amusing thoughts on how to survive a suburban cocktail party: (1) Grope the host; (2) grope the hostess; (3) leave early, feigning illness, before the conversations kill you.
And though I figured that he found it (mostly) amusing, the thought crossed my mind that, if I weren't agile, he could knock me through a nearby plate glass window.
The chair of the judging panel, Linda Bennett, said of the list: "We have been treated to many excellent works that are inspiring and enlightening, amusing and thought-provoking.
Nowadays it's more likely to be the internationally mega rich … The Scots, this amusing and thought-provoking novel implies, are mad as hell about it".
The museum's curator of performance, Jay Sanders, recently showcased dancenoise, the potent performance duo who've done so much to break down those old theatre walls and make politics the locus of a frenzied, amusing, and thought-provoking style.
Matthew Engel, FT journalist and contrarian editor of Wisden, began to jot down amusing or thought-provoking items as a young journalist in 1979 in red Silvino notebooks and just carried on, with the vague intention of eventually passing them down to his son Laurie.
What's more, if the idea of a Forgemasters or Speedy J fan picking up Yellow House to see how their favourite old label had been getting on since 1991 seems amusing, spare a thought for the young me, settling into a bomb of mephedrone and a Spotify playlist of LFO and Andrew Weatherall's Sabres of Paradise project in order to get up to speed.
