W: You know I've often wondered why people laugh at the picture of a big belly businessman slipping on a banana skin and falling on his bottom. We are to feel sorry for them.
M: Actually, Laura, I think we laugh because we are glad 61 didn't happen to us. But of course there is also a kind of humorous satisfaction in seeing somebody self-important 62 (make) a fool of themselves.
W: Yes, and there are a lot of jokes about people who are too fat or physically handicapped, you know, deaf, or short-sighted, things 63 that. After all, it's not really funny 64 (be) like that.
M: Oh, I think that's 65 we're embarrassed. We don't know how to cope with the situation. Perhaps we are even a bit frightened 66 we may get like that, so we laugh.
M: What about the custard pie routine?
W: What do you mean “custard pie routine”?
M: You know, all those old films 67 someone gets so outraged with his boss that he picks up a custard pie and plasters it all over the other person's face.
W: That never makes me laugh much, because you can guess what's going to happen. But a lot of people still find it laughable. It must be because of the sort of the thing we'd all love to do once in a 68 and never quite have 69 courage to.
M: I had an old aunt who 70 (use) to throw cups of tea at people when she was particularly irritated. She said it relieved her feelings.
W: It must have come a bit expensive.
M: Not really. She took care never to throw her best china.
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