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Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 9:47pmSanction this postReply
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This is supposed to be a joke????????

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Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 3:37amSanction this postReply
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Humor has its roots in contrasts, or so said a science show I saw a few years ago.  It traced the "signal break" in the brain as it followed one line of thought in the joke before the punchline offered an unexpected change in the pattern that induced laughter.  Besides, I did not know where else to put this little gem I got via e-mail!

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Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 6:47amSanction this postReply
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I'd hardly call it a gem.

An exercise in ridiculous exaggeration, perhaps.

And I laugh at subtlety. Shame.

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Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 5:05pmSanction this postReply
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Oh come on you curmudgeons, I thought it was funny. :)

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Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 5:12pmSanction this postReply
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It was too revoltingly true to be funny..... so, where 's the joke?

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Monday, January 28, 2008 - 9:32pmSanction this postReply
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agree with most of you. Sure, it was mildly humorous, but nothing I haven't seen before. And why does the one ESL character have to have a stereotypical ethnic name? Why not give them all hopelessly bland names?

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 1:50amSanction this postReply
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Nope, that wasn't funny, at all.

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 6:55pmSanction this postReply
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Far be it for me to do anything to enhance John Armaos's credibility by association or contribute to the reiffication of any other oxymorons, but I found the items reasonably funny - and all too true. 

As to the nature of humor, Luke, you might enjoy Koestler's "The Act of Creation," which I originally purchased from N.B.I.  Koestler really nails it.


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Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 10:03amSanction this postReply
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Very funny!!!

Satire, overstatement for effect, showing extreme contrasts between decades will sometimes break through with people where policy analysis won't. (Also, the 1967 examples were very telling and well-chosen).

Luke, for some of these literal-minded dudes who probably think that all of Swift, Mencken, Twain, and Voltaire was meant to be taken stone cold sober before slashing their wrists . . .

. . . maybe you should have attached a flowchart??? :-)



(Edited by Philip Coates on 1/30, 10:12am)


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Friday, February 29, 2008 - 4:24pmSanction this postReply
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Maybe it's not funny, but it's so terribly sad that the only way to stay sane is to laugh at it. Whatever happened to those Americans who make America possible? I hope they are the huge silent majority and that the disgusting Political Correctness brigade is just a very load and disproportionately influential minority.
(Edited by Vladimir Stefan Ashkenazy on 2/29, 4:25pm)

(Edited by Vladimir Stefan Ashkenazy on 2/29, 4:26pm)


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