These are not jokes, maybe not even affirmations, . But in the privacy of my own home I sometime laugh out loud: Did you know that dolphins are so smart that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them fish? Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.. How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire? The shinbone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room.