Surprises Surprise. This word brings forth images of parties and fun for everyone. Like, for Christmas, when children wake up in the morning to see the tree full of presents, they have a look of surprise. A surprise can be just about anything. It can be a cookie for a small child. A surprise for a pregnant woman could be a very frightening thing. To surprise a 90 year old person, would be for him/her …showed first 75 words of 987 total…

…showed last 75 words of 987 total…will happen next in the joke. That is what keeps people listening and me at all ears. The surprise can happen at the beginning, the middle or the end of a joke and it can still have that same reaction that you get when you are surprised. The element of surprise is what will keep a good joke going or even a bad joke alive. It is just so essential to joke-telling in our society.