well this just made my night!

I was wandering around 'Know Your Meme' earlier, randomly reading articles, when I came across the partially-written page about the 'Make Your Own Album Cover' game. For those who don't know, this is a meme-slash-game people on forums and stuff sometimes play--it involves taking a random Wikipedia article, Flickr photo, and a portion of a random quotation and combining them to create the name of a fictional band and the title and cover art of their fictional album. I think these are pretty cool because some of them are completely ludicrous and others look almost like they could be real. I was browsing through the examples and I stumbled across this one:

This really isn't one of the best ones, but it immediately stood out to me because of the title on the left side. It reads 'an adorable pancreas'.

I recognized the quote immediately and knew not only its context but I knew who said it.

It was from humourist and playwright Jean Kerr.

Jean Kerr is my all-time favourite writer and I am genuinely disappointed and saddened that she isn't more widely-known because her work was just absolutely genius. She wrote about everyday life and its quirks and weirdness decades before Erma Bombeck would even pick up a pen. She was amazing and I owe my own creative ambitions to her. It was Jean Kerr who taught me that the mundane can be made gloriously funny by turning it on its head and looking at it from a completely absurd angle.

The quote in question is this: "I'm tired of this business about beauty only being skin deep. That's deep enough, isn't it? What else do you want, an adorable pancreas?"

She died in 2003 at the age of 81 and I'm deeply upset that I will never get to meet her in person or talk to her about the everyday things that make us laugh.

I have never met another person who even knew who she was.