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Maine Coast Humor 

Sanity is in the Eye of the Beholder

From: The Humble Farmer
Length: 01:16

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110104_lobster_from_shine_small If you realize you're doing something crazy, you are probably sane

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Transcript

Long time radio friend Robert in Brunswick sends us this letter.

“I am looking after my brother's animals so he can spend 10 days in Europe with his wife and their three kids. I think they are meeting in Switzerland. The first question on the application to become a Swiss citizen is, ‘Are you sane?’”

I’d like to thank Robert for sending that along because it is an opportunity to ask you to define sanity. You and I have seen people who were completely bonkers who thought they were acting in a completely rational manner. And, during the course of your life, you might well have calmly done something that the crowd watching would consider completely rational or normal --- although, from somewhere deep down inside, a little visceral voice screamed at you: “Are you crazy out of your mind?”

Robert doesn’t know what you and I are talking about here, because he’s not married.
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