Running Gags

I may or may not have written about running gags before, but I am going to write about some of mine now.

If you read my blog post about thinking it strange that people read my writing, you came across the following parenthetical paragraph:

(By the way, if you have not been reading my blog for very long, you might not recognize the running gag. I have talked about real and imaginary readers since almost the beginning of my blog. So when I mention readers, I keep the running gag going. I suppo...