DC: Billboard Weeds Out Humorless

A tempest in a flowerpot blooms in North Spokane. The hubbub centers on a billboard towering over North Division Street near Lyons Avenue. “Pot dealer ahead,” reads the text. Now anyone with a sense of humor can see instantly that this advertisement has nothing at all to do with bud, bongs or medicinal brownies. The billboard, after all, bears the images of five flowerpots, one of which sprouts foliage that looks nothing at all like that wackiest of weeds. Plus there’s the business name on the sign: “Ritters,” it reads – not “Reefers.” Ritters, of course, is one of the city’s longtime and leading gardening establishments. Ah, but here’s the thing I learned from joking around in this newspaper since the Pleistocene era. Not every resident is equipped with a funny bone/ Doug Clark , SR. More here.

Question: Do you have a funny bone?