Ever get a laughing jag playing a videogame? I just did.

[Archae]

I'm playing the "Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham" videogame, and there's a level I reached.

I get to play a scenario from the 1966 Batman TV show, and it is hilarious!
Even at the end, all the characters do the "Batusi!"

And yes, Batman just can't get rid of a bomb!

[malthaussen]

1. No, but I've had them reading...

... not really pleasant, since the laughter really was uncontrollable and for a few moments I feared I'd have a heart attack. I'd give a nickel to understand the mechanism more, although it is not one that has come up recently.

-- Mal

[Archae]

2. Last time I did that reading a book...

It was about American "slob culture."

Pink Flamingoes, black velvet Elvis paintings, and...beer.

[malthaussen]

3. Bill Bryson did it to me.

For whatever reason, his thoughts on the travel agent and his translation of the conversation between the Dutch hoteliers in Neither Here nor There had me rolling on the floor. Quite literally: the chair went over backwards and I was convulsing with unstoppable guffaws for several excruciating minutes. Don't ask me why, either: I still laugh when I read them, but I don't completely lose it.

-- Mal