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Curtis Jerry Smothers - Teacher, Editor, Poet, Writing Coach
A representative portfolio of some of humorous (at least to me) articles
A horse walks into a bar and orders a drink. The barkeep asks, "Why the long face?" *ba-dum-bump* So if you like a good joke or go along with Mark Twain's premise that most humor comes from tragedy, you might enjoy the following sample articles I wrote for Helium before that site's tragic -- albeit humorous -- demise.
Click the images below for links to a sampling of my articles:
The Unauthorized History
of Country Music
The Amish are Cruel to their Horses
I Dreamed of Chad
Old People
Who Say they went to school with you
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