A joke among the family (and nowhere else) is an adaptation of the Muppet Show joke involving talking houses.

“My wife’s not feeling well,” one house says to the other.

“What’s the matter?”

“She’s got the eyeball sting!”

This is uproariously funny to Hallie and Travis (the original punch line is “she’s got the shingles”). I wasn’t laughing earlier this week, though; I had the real eyeball sting. It was some sort of conjunctivitis in my right eye.
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