Some of the instant messenger conversations that made me laugh while I was at work yesterday:

(Keith and I discuss higher education)

Me: I have my first class in 7 years tonight.
Keith: That's great. Do you have a notebook?
Me: No, I've got to go get one.
Keith: You should get a Garfield notebook.
Me: Oh, I'm going to. Don't you worry about that.
(hours later)
Me: They were out of Garfield notebooks.
Keith: That's too bad.
Me: So I got a Heathcliff notebook.
Keith: Oh, that Heathcliff. He truly is the poor man's Garfield.

(My fellow unpaid screenwriter friend Nick and I discuss the perils of the Hollywood system)

Me: Well, you've got some interest in that script you wrote. That's good.
Nick: Yeah, but that's nothing.
Me: It's not nothing.
Nick: I've got some interest in building a tree house - doesn't mean I have the money for the plywood.
Me: Uh... okay. I don't think I really get that analogy.
Nick: On the other hand, I can't build a screenplay in Hanover (ed note: my home town) and see your mother naked, so I guess it's a little different...
Me: Okay, I see where this analogy is going... and I like it!

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Oh, and I think I've pretty much maxed out on jokes about my mother this week. Leave my poor long-suffering mother alone, for God's sake.