SEEDS & WEEDS: The Funniest Things People Have Said About GARDENING

THE FUNNIEST THINGS PEOPLE HAVE SAID ABOUT GARDENING 335
“Our tracker tells us he had twisted slightly to his right and was
turning back forward, possibly with his right arm outstretched.”
“You mean to suggest he was —”
“Yes.”
“— clapping the guy next to him on the shoulder?”
“Yes — so it seems.”
“So this was a bunch of guys, maybe 17,000 years ago, standing
around and —”
“Yes.”
“Telling jokes?”
She laughed out loud. “That’s our best guess,” she said.
“Oh, my God.”
“Of course, we know nothing about the language they spoke —”
“But they were telling jokes!” one of us said. “Who cares what
language? Humor is a universal language.”
“That’s why we invited you here,” Denisova said. “We thought that
you guys, of anyone, would appreciate this.”
This cemented the bond we were feeling. These guys, living lives we
could scarcely comprehend, were standing beneath this very volcano in
this very spot, goofing around with each other and telling jokes.
“I’d love to know what they were joking about,” one of us said.
“They say humor doesn’t translate well from one language or culture
to another,” the other said. “But if we had something like that tracker’s