Humor and fun and frivolity are all great ways to pass the time, but they're Big Fat Nothin' compared to JOY - real Joy. This I learned, and learned well, one Christmas when The Saint plucked me from my nice cushy job on the toy factory floor and appointed me to a Special Assignment which, frankly, I didn't really deserve.

"Lim'rick," he said, "you're gonna learn the difference between joking and Joy. Actually, you're gonna learn all about real, true Joy. You're gonna learn it well! And you're gonna delight all of us by helping a most important person learn it, too.

"Lim'rick, I'm sending you to Heaven.