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2006-12-09 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Pappy 2006-12-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Pappy, page one
Why Women aren't Funny Link

Posted by RD 2006-12-09 07:59|| 2006-12-09 07:59|| Front Page Top

#2 That article is a damn scream.

Posted by Shipman 2006-12-09 08:28|| 2006-12-09 08:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Humor is witticism, funny is surrealism. That is, only the former is based on a play on words like a pun, the consideration of the unpleasant, or what Hitchens talks about.

The latter, what is funny, is a non sequitur. Something that does not compute to the mind. For example a man uses a nail to nail one end of a board to the top of a tall building. Then he carries another board to the end of the first board and nails it, too. And so on, building himself a flimsy bridge. The mind, and experience, tells us that such a bridge is impossible.

Humor elicits a smirk if done properly, and is based on an underlying truth, a realization. Something that is funny, however, causes an almost involuntary response, from the mind being puzzled.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-12-09 08:36|| 2006-12-09 08:36|| Front Page Top

#4 thats not funny Moose!

/;)

Posted by RD 2006-12-09 08:59|| 2006-12-09 08:59|| Front Page Top

#5 For some reason my Internet Explorer crashes in the middle of opening that page.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-12-09 10:54|| 2006-12-09 10:54|| Front Page Top

#6 For some reason my Internet Explorer crashes in the middle of opening that page.

Now that's funny!

Posted by Mick Dundee 2006-12-09 13:47|| 2006-12-09 13:47|| Front Page Top

#7 For some reason my Internet Explorer crashes in the middle of opening that page.

mine too Glenmore, I had to use Firefox to hunt up page one.

Consider it just another unfunny joke on us from Gay Bill Gates.

Posted by RD 2006-12-09 14:41|| 2006-12-09 14:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Wimmen ARE funny!
I mean, they laugh with me, they don't laugh at me... do they?

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-12-09 14:58|| 2006-12-09 14:58|| Front Page Top

#9 a5089, we find you charmingly knowledgeable about the arcane and obscure, and your English is delightful.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-09 15:22|| 2006-12-09 15:22|| Front Page Top

#10 Thanks, Ms. Tw! Rest assured with just that simple compliment, you have soothed my bruised Ego and battered self-esteem... and delayed my ultimate demise, under the hail of fire from the regional Swat called in to put an end to my killing spree, by at least a couple of months.

Errr.... That's not a very good thanks, I guess. My bad.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-12-09 16:03|| 2006-12-09 16:03|| Front Page Top

#11 OK, a5089 - put the mouse down and back away from the keyboard. Veeerrry sloooowwly.

Posted by PBMcL 2006-12-09 16:42|| 2006-12-09 16:42|| Front Page Top

#12 As the article points out, women bear children, and that makes their view of the world a tad more serious than ours, However, because we don't bear children, and as individuals, are not really necessary for the continuation of the species, we are singularly perfect for warfare.
Honor on the battlefield has always been the greatest achievement for any man. Patton knew this and he said that modern weapons were removing the honor of the warrior from the struggle. He knew that civilization and civil treatment of the vanquished was born of the fight. Without the the effort the fight through pain, injury, chaos, the sights and sounds of battle, the dead and dying, the loss of limbs among those on both sides, the victors would enjoy war. We honor them because they have spared us their hell. When wars are fought half assed, then they spare us nothing, but guarantee us another battlefield on another day.

Posted by wxjames 2006-12-09 17:56|| 2006-12-09 17:56|| Front Page Top

#13 fact: wimmins do have a type of humor

..and teasing them has been a life long joy!

»:-)

Posted by RD 2006-12-09 19:08|| 2006-12-09 19:08|| Front Page Top

#14 LOL RD!

Is that Margot Walter? I bet she has a sense of humor.

/ack!

Posted by exJAG 2006-12-09 19:23|| 2006-12-09 19:23|| Front Page Top

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