Unexpected

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

~ Heraclitus

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I believe this.  I believe in looking and listening for unexpected things.  I believe in creative connections between things you would not usually connect.  I believe humor is found in the contrast as well as the unusual similarities - both of which are often unexpectedly stumbled upon.

We laugh.  Then we think for a minute and realize, "That is actually true."  Truth is at the root of humor.  I think.  

Truth and fear.  We laugh a lot at things we fear.  Sometimes appropriately.  Sometimes horrifically inappropriately.

For example, I read about "the world's largest underground trampoline" being in some cave somewhere.  It made me laugh.  Not that there was a trampoline in a cave, but that there is more than one and they are competitive enough to want to have the LARGEST trampoline underground.

I hope the ceilings are high.  And there aren't stalactites or stalagmites.  Or bats.  Or bat guano.  I'd hate to slip on bat guano and slide off the edge of a trampoline.