Quick Glimpse: Evolution of Humor

Before you're tainted by the initial bad sentence, let me show you the final:

I've been almost exclusively hand-coding my Javascript these past 4 or 5 months, and I've come to the conclusion that this experience has permanently altered my neurochemistry in some strange, pseudo-Stockholm Syndrome kind of way.

Now, the progression:

Start: I've been hand-coded Javascript these past 4 or 5 months, and it's really influenced the way I think about the language.
(Oh really? Influenced how you think?? Amazing! I am rapt!)

Intermediate A: I've been hand-coding my Javascript almost exclusively these past 4 or 5 months, and despite Rails' many many attractive Javascript features, I usually prefer it now.
(It'd be hard work to come up with a sentence with a less climactic ending than this one. Bravo me.)

Intermediate B: I've been hand-coding my Javascript almost exclusively these past 4 or 5 months and it has to some degree changed the way I think about the language, and despite Rails' many many attractive Javascript features,
(You may think this is a copy and paste error, but it's not. I never finished this sentence. I gave up at the comma because I could see it was going nowhere good.)

Intermediate C: I've been hand-coding my Javascript almost exclusively these past 4 or 5 months and it has, in some strange pseudo- Stockholm-syndrome kind of way, shaped my brain.
(Not horrible but the joke has no impact in the middle there. Humor peters out by the end.)

Intermediate D: I've been almost exclusively hand-coding my Javascript these past 4 or 5 months and it's permanently altered my neurochemistry in some strange pseudo-Stockholm Syndrome kind of way.
(Almost! Needs better timing.)

Final (again): I've been almost exclusively hand-coding my Javascript these past 4 or 5 months, and I've come to the conclusion that this experience has permanently altered my neurochemistry in some strange, pseudo-Stockholm Syndrome kind of way.
(The extra linguistic padding alters the tempo of the sentence and thus the delay before the joke itself, making it more of a surprise and therefore funnier.)

So there you have it. My secret is out: You may like most of what I write and it may seem effortless, but gosh can I write some utter crap. It's just that I usually edit it out before I publish. (Although I will admit that sometimes the funny comes out effortlessly, fully formed the first try, but sometimes I can work a sentence 10 times before I'm satisfied or I give up and cut it out.)