Before you see where this article is heading, maybe you would like to take a short quiz on Harry Potter.
To all Harry Potter’s fans and foes out there, please give your best shot at answering the following question. What would you call Harry Potter’s grandfather? Any success yet, no? Come on, surely you can think harder than that? You’ve read it at least three times in the books before! Ok, here’s the answer, Harry Potter’s grandpa is’ Mr Potter!
Isn’t it funny? I apologize if the answer has left any unforeseen mental traumas or bodily bruises from falling off the seats. But the question that I really want to ask is more important than Harry Potter’s ancestry. The question is: what were you doing, when you were reading the joke?
Were you glancing through the words to get the answer straight away, just like what the other 90% of the people did and react with indifference? Or did you contemplate about the answer while looking for it, and welcome it with a smile or a look of disbelief? Truth be told, as long as you smile or jest at the joke, you are showing appreciation for the joke, you are showing gratitude for...