Useful Tips on Using Humor

Check out this article from Leadership Magazine on using humor effectively. This is excellent advice: "...avoid joke books and pay more attention to what is going on around you."

I also love this humorous illustration:

"The Butterball company set up a Thanksgiving hotline to answer questions about cooking turkeys. One woman asked if she could use a turkey that had been in the bottom of her freezer for … 23 years. The Butterball expert—how's that for a job title—told her it would probably be safe if the freezer had been below zero the entire time. But the expert warned her that even if the turkey was safe to eat, the flavor would likely have deteriorated and wouldn't be worth eating. The woman said, "That's what I thought. We'll give the turkey to our church."
After the laughter subsided, I said, "Sin first shows itself in what you give God."