Show r I By IRIS firs l A lot of current opinion about a teen teen-agers rs doesn't come anywhere near reflecting g my own I lUke like teen teen- agers Most of the ones I know are ambitious moral and attractive Besides that they're funny Maybe its it's because they find this frightening world easier to live in If they Uley laugh at It and some of their humor is a trifle macabre Mostly however they just appear to meet life Ufe with a big grin and to me its ll's one of theIr most endearing features RIGHT NOW THERE SEEMS to be a run on what hat I Iguess guess they would call jokes Last week David home What Vh io do you vou v to ii 1 Irl w pounds and carrying a switchblade U if she says piss Kiss me Yes Maam Ma'am And What does a pound parrot say Polly want a cracker Also What does the pound mouse say sayto to the cat Here kitty kitty And a sPace l dont don't really get What's orange and goes miles an hour hourA A injected fuel carrot But Dut I did understand Why dId the pound and hamster go into the woods with a club To hold a meeting Even people of oC my generation can understand the one Davids David's friend told me about the two boys from the country who boarded their first train en route to the big city to attend college At the depot they bought a abrand brand of candy bar new to both of them m and later one of the boys took a bite of his just as the train entered a tunnel Hey Iley Elmo he says worried you eat your bar yet No says Elmo Nell Vell dont don't I just took a bite of mine and went stone blind j N TEEN AGERS CAN laugh at themselves trait at any age as indicated b by jokes such as Ve have twins In my class A boy and a girl Are they r hard to tell apart Naw the boys boy's the one with long haIr Or they tell about the young mana dropout who was so dumb he saw a piece in the paper Boy noy wanted for armed robbery and he applied for Cor the job Or they tell about the girl who drivers driver's training and drove to the city for the first time She stopped for the first traffic light and froze In panIc as asit it turned from red to yellow to green to red and to yellow at which point a cop came over and said the matter sis Dont Don't we have ANY colors you ou like like like- And they tell about the new student body A resident president who says to his s girl friend Congratulate me I just won the election She gushes Honestly and he hollers Dont get nasty N ti THE TEENS CONSIDER themselves adult enough to tomake make a horrible face when they tell a bad joke but it doesn't stop them DavId delights In rushing into the house with such gems as asHey Hey mom theresa green snake out here Do you suppose its it's as dangerous a aa a ripe one or ir 11 tt washington was they close Or hell he'll ask me meU U If twos two's company compan and threes three's threesa a crowd what's four and five and when I innocently ask What he says Nine and laughs at me I suspect he anticipates the look Ill I'll give him when he comes home from school and tells me his friend wallowed swallowed his quarter during the day but it was all allright right because It was his lunch money And e Y delights in telling m and jokes oKes ne KnOWS will upset me somewhat Like one day last week when he told me his biology teacher was planning to give them thema a lecture on a frog which he had in his pocket only when he reached into the pocket he brought fortha forth a ham sandwich He looked at It muttering That's n funny I know I ate lunch I FEEL SURE THAT as long as our teen teen-agers are able to laugh they'll be all right They may even be able to live rel u I. I in n this is world v. v rl v weve we've I. I led II willed them i |