> The lowest form of humour

Well, so they say. But who are "they" ? I suggest it takes a good
(literal and social) vocabulary to make a clever one. It does seem
to be The Age Of The Pun though

C'mon "chuffed to bits". Two for the price of one, not a penny extra

>> Oh, and there's Shakespeare too I guess
> 
> Indeed there be.
> But ye'll be needing to know the old ways of speaking the mother
> tongue to really get his drift, oft enough, I'll be bound

An old Goon Show staple. Enquiring if eg the prisoner is tied up

"Is he bound ?"
"Of his health, I know naught"
"Let's have some prune juice on standby just in case"
(asides of "Stop feeding him hard-boiled eggs you idiots" etc)

To be serious for a moment, I find humour a very good tool for
determining someone's character. And in a program I watched
recently (Why Maths Doesn't Add Up, an attempt by maths
prof Marcus Du Sautoy to broaden comedian Alan Davies' sums
horizon into the Universe) it was said by an analytical psychologist
that those with a humorous bent often have a lateral thinking bent
also

> There's some very clever stuff buried therein.

It's a pity Will is often dumbed down to be more user-friendly, or
even just dismissed. The original can be hard work, but I did kind
of appreciate it at school, although not much
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