DORA: Ooooooooooouch! I just banged my elbow and boy does it hurt! Does this spot have a name?
WENDELL: It's called your funnybone!

DORA: So how come I'm not laughing?
WENDELL: Because your funnybone doesn't have anything to do with laughter....

DORA: Well, tell me that at least my funnybone has something to do with a bone?
WENDELL: Now this is funny. But I'm sorry to tell you, Dora, that your funny bone isn't really a bone at all....

DORA: You're kidding! What is it?
WENDELL: It's the place where a nerve crosses the surface of the long bone near your elbow. But know what that bone is called?

DORA: Nope.
WENDELL: It's called the humerus! Cute, huh!

DORA: Ummmmmm. Wendell, I'm still in pain....
WENDELL: Oh, right. But aren't nerves remarkable?

DORA: What are nerves,anyway?
WENDELL: They're threads of tissue that run throughout your body and carry messages back and forth just the way that telephone wires do. They're part of the central nervous system.

DORA: Say what? What's my central nervous system?
WENDELL: You know -- your nerves, your spinal cord and that goopy, gelatin-like mass of gray and pink called a brain!

DORA: So when I feel this tingly pain, I owe it all to my nervous system?
WENDELL: Yes, indeed! When you bend your elbow, suddenly you have a nerve which is much easier to get to than most nerves are. Then, when you whack your elbow, the nerve also gets whacked and begins to send messages that travel all the way up your arm, to your spinal cord, and along your spinal cord to your brain.

DORA: Then what?
WENDELL: Your brain sent messages back through other nerves, instructing muscles in your face to wince, and your other arm to rise up and cradle the one in pain. Neat, huh?
DORA: Wendell, I'm still feeling tingling pain all up and down my arm. Calling nerves neat -- don't you think that's a little nerve-y?