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| Kerle | Nov 15 2009, 07:57 AM Post #5101 |
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Funny. Yeah...
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A joke is a short story or ironic depiction of a situation communicated with the intent of being humorous. These jokes will normally have a punchline that will end the sentence to make it humorous. A joke can also be a single phrase or statement that employs sarcasm. The word joke can also be used as a slang term for a person or thing which is not taken seriously by others in general. A practical joke or prank differs from a spoken one in that the major component of the humour is physical rather than verbal (for example placing salt in the sugar bowl) :o Spoiler: click to toggle
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| lucci85 | Nov 15 2009, 08:00 AM Post #5102 |
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And what does this explaination mean with my joke, genius? That my joke's not funny? Or it can't be called a joke? What? |
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| Mike | Nov 15 2009, 08:17 AM Post #5103 |
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wow,you should write a book xD |
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| Mastr13 | Nov 15 2009, 08:20 AM Post #5104 |
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I am the phoenix
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Damn man, you guys are so random. I always miss so much in so little time. |
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| Shademan | Nov 15 2009, 08:21 AM Post #5105 |
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"Rejoice"
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Yeah, wikipedia entries make awesome book material. |
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| IFfy | Nov 15 2009, 08:27 AM Post #5106 |
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For some reason I figured that's where that joke definition came from lol. |
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| lucci85 | Nov 15 2009, 08:59 AM Post #5107 |
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Jokes are typically for the entertainment of friends and onlookers. The desired response is generally laughter; when this does not happen the joke is said to have "fallen flat". Jokes have been a part of human culture since at least 1900 BCE. A fart joke from ancient Sumer is currently believed to be the world's oldest known joke[1] A recent discovery of a document called Philogelos (The Laughter Lover) gives us an insight into ancient humour. Written in Greek by Hierocles and Philagrius, it dates to the third or fourth century AD, and contains some 260 jokes. Considering humour from our own culture as recent as the 19th century is at times baffling to us today, the humour is surprisingly familiar. They had different Stereotypes, the Absent-minded professor, the eunuch, and people with hernias or bad breath were favourites. A lot of the jokes play on the idea of knowing who you are: a barber, a bald man and an absent minded professor take a journey together. They have to camp overnight, so decide to take turns watching the luggage. When it's the barber's turn, he gets bored, so amuses himself by shaving the head of the professor. When the professor is woken up for his shift, he feels his head, and says "How stupid is that barber? He's woken up the bald man instead of me. Another joke goes: "A man tells a well-known wit: "I had your wife, without paying a penny". The husband replies: "It's my duty as a husband to couple with such a monstrosity. What made you do it?" There is even a version of Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch: a man buys a slave, who dies shortly afterwards. When he complains to the slave merchant, he is told: "He didn't die when I owned him." Comic Jim Bowen has presented them to a modern audience. "One or two of them are jokes I've seen in people's acts nowadays, slightly updated. They put in a motor car instead of a chariot - some of them are Tommy Cooper-esque." Why we laugh has been the subject of serious academic study, examples being: * Immanuel Kant, in Critique of Judgement (1790) states that "Laughter is an effect that arises if a tense expectation is transformed into nothing." Here is Kant's 219-year old joke and his analysis: "An Englishman at an Indian's table in Surat saw a bottle of ale being opened, and all the beer, turned to froth, rushed out. The Indian, by repeated exclamations, showed his great amazement. - Well, what's so amazing in that? asked the Englishman. - Oh, but I'm not amazed at its coming out, replied the Indian, but how you managed to get it all in. - This makes us laugh, and it gives us a hearty pleasure. This is not because, say, we think we are smarter than this ignorant man, nor are we laughing at anything else here that it is our liking and that we noticed through our understanding. It is rather that we had a tense expectation that suddenly vanished..." * Henri Bergson, in his book Le rire (Laughter, 1901), suggests that laughter evolved to make social life possible for human beings. * Sigmund Freud's "Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious". (Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewußten). * Arthur Koestler, in The Act of Creation (1964), analyses humour and compares it to other creative activities, such as literature and science. * Marvin Minsky in Society of Mind (1986). Marvin Minsky suggests that laughter has a specific function related to the human brain. In his opinion jokes and laughter are mechanisms for the brain to learn nonsense. For that reason, he argues, jokes are usually not as funny when you hear them repeatedly. * Edward de Bono in "The Mechanism of the Mind" (1969) and "I am Right, You are Wrong" (1990). Edward de Bono suggests that the mind is a pattern-matching machine, and that it works by recognizing stories and behaviour and putting them into familiar patterns. When a familiar connection is disrupted and an alternative unexpected new link is made in the brain via a different route than expected, then laughter occurs as the new connection is made. This theory explains a lot about jokes. For example: * Why jokes are only funny the first time they are told: once they are told the pattern is already there, so there can be no new connections, and so no laughter. * Why jokes have an elaborate and often repetitive set up: The repetition establishes the familiar pattern in the brain. A common method used in jokes is to tell almost the same story twice and then deliver the punch line the third time the story is told. The first two tellings of the story evoke a familiar pattern in the brain, thus priming the brain for the punch line. * Why jokes often rely on stereotypes: the use of a stereotype links to familiar expected behaviour, thus saving time in the set-up. * Why jokes are variants on well-known stories (e.g. the genie and a lamp and a man walks into a bar): This again saves time in the set up and establishes a familiar pattern. * In 2002, Richard Wiseman conducted a study intended to discover the world's funniest joke. * Humour and Jokes have also been concluded to be logic that is completely random or vice versa. Laughter, the intended human reaction to jokes, is healthy in moderation, uses the stomach muscles, and releases endorphins, natural "feel good" chemicals, into the brain. |
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| Shademan | Nov 15 2009, 09:05 AM Post #5108 |
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You could edit that post and write "I can use teh internets!11!" and it would have the same effect. We all know what a joke is, you don't have to use google to explain it. |
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| IFfy | Nov 15 2009, 09:12 AM Post #5109 |
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I was just about to do that but it would have been abusing my powers lol. xD |
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| lucci85 | Nov 15 2009, 09:13 AM Post #5110 |
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"I can use teh internets!11!" |
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| IFfy | Nov 15 2009, 09:16 AM Post #5111 |
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That actually made me lol xD |
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| lucci85 | Nov 15 2009, 09:17 AM Post #5112 |
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for what? Aeon said me to do it and I did it xD Since I can't edit even my posts for no reason -.- Uh that's only for long posts xD But why there I can delete it and it says you don't have mod powers? O.o MY POSTS? Edited by lucci85, Nov 15 2009, 09:19 AM.
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| Shademan | Nov 15 2009, 09:18 AM Post #5113 |
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I didn't tell you to do anything. I said you COULD do it. |
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| IFfy | Nov 15 2009, 09:18 AM Post #5114 |
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You can't edit your posts? |
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| Mike | Nov 15 2009, 09:19 AM Post #5115 |
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nobody even red that lucci >_> |
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| IFfy | Nov 15 2009, 09:20 AM Post #5116 |
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Now I'm lost. o.o |
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| lucci85 | Nov 15 2009, 09:21 AM Post #5117 |
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red that? OK surely I didn't understand this... Exsol, I found out I can't edit or delete looooong posts Aeon, sorry for that mistake, I usually translate MUST with COULD if a mod says that to me. |
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| Shademan | Nov 15 2009, 09:23 AM Post #5118 |
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Only mods can delete posts. However, everyone should be able to edit their own posts. |
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| Mike | Nov 15 2009, 09:23 AM Post #5119 |
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*facepalm* red is past simple of read |
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| lucci85 | Nov 15 2009, 09:26 AM Post #5120 |
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well, you WRITE it READ too...not red, red's the colour of blood, not a past verb... read, read, read, and the last two pronountiation is RED |
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| Mike | Nov 15 2009, 09:32 AM Post #5121 |
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im 100 % you can write it red too,we learned that in school |
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| IFfy | Nov 15 2009, 09:35 AM Post #5122 |
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http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_past_tense_of_read There you go. |
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| Mike | Nov 15 2009, 09:38 AM Post #5123 |
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that really is weird,in school we learned it can be said red too and we have red writen even in the book,weird |
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| lucci85 | Nov 15 2009, 09:43 AM Post #5124 |
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who's that "incompetente" of teacher you've got? |
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| Mike | Nov 15 2009, 09:45 AM Post #5125 |
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same goes for the one who wrote the book >_> |
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