“Can’t you tell me those funny George Lucas’s Beard jokes again, Dad?” said Son.

“Sure I can,” I said.

Sometimes I don’t even realize how funny I am. Some of those times I’m funny because I make a “cute” mistake in Swedish, and Wife just can’t get enough of it. Or, I’m so scared on a roller coaster that I hold on to the car with my knuckles white as snow, my arms all spread out, so that I practically push Wife over board, and when she then sees me on the post-ride photo, she tells me that I’m “doing that funny thing with my face again.”

And then there are the times when I say something to Son and he thinks it’s a hilarious a joke. Which it then becomes.

That’s how our George Lucas’s Beard jokes started. Son had his most intense Star Wars period and he kept asking me about the plot twists and turns, and at one point, I just told him that the most dangerous planet was George Lucas’s beard.

“What is black and gray and stuck in a tree?”

“George Lucas’s beard!” yelled son.

“So, what did Indiana Jones find in the first treasure chest he opened in the Crystal Skull cave?”

“George Lucas’s beard!”

We were on our bikes, riding home from the mall.

“Who was Yoda’s body double in Episode IV?”

“George Lucas’s beard!”

“What is tougher then diamonds, more durable than rubber?”

“George Lucas’s beard!!”

“What don’t you want to see when you wake up in the middle of the night?”

“George Lucas’s beard!”

“When you forget your underpants, what can you use instead?”

“GEORGE LUCAS’S BEARD!”

Son was laughing out loud. He was riding faster and faster, now some 20 meters ahead of me, shaking his head and still laughing. Then he slowed down to wait for me.

“Have you really been writing more of these George Lucas’s beard jokes, Dad?”

“You like ‘em?” I said.

“Yeah!”

“Sure, I have,” I said, and I wasn’t really lying. I was simply time-shifting. I am working on a bunch of new George Lucas’s Beard jokes right now.