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To: Steelfish

This is funny why?


2 posted on 02/20/2009 8:29:19 PM PST by svcw (This maybe my last transmission - God have mercy on us.)
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To: svcw

You wrote:

“This is funny why?”

Inversion. Humor is essentially based on cognitive and emotional paradox or on exaggeration of known truths.

To see Hitler, a despotic, mad mass murderer, rail against not being able to find a parking spot in Tel Aviv is...funny. It’s funny because it would (could) never happen, and takes a known truth (Hitler railed like the mad man he was), and applies that known truth to a silly situation.


17 posted on 02/20/2009 8:53:48 PM PST by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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To: svcw

I don’t know why they’re funny, but I’ve seen a few of them and they were all hilarious.


26 posted on 02/20/2009 9:22:06 PM PST by Moonman62 (I didn't compromise my soul to be popular. -- Jimmy Carter)
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