Others Have Problems With Jokes

Frequently I will say something making an attempt to be humorous and people will think I am serious and get offended by it.

I tell myself no one is so dumb that they could not figure out this was a joke.  They learned to read somehow, and having enough brains to read I would think would also give you enough brains to be able to tell if something was reasonable or way way way out of the realm of reasonable.

I just read dilbertblog and it looks like he as the same problem too.  So I feel a little better knowing I am not the only person in the world this happens to, now there are two of us who are misunderstood.

At some point if enough people misunderstand my attempts at humor I guess I would need to add a comment after the joke and explain that I am really joking.