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Scientist Claims Men Are Funnier Than Women
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 12-22-2007 | Nick Britten

Posted on 12/21/2007 7:25:57 PM PST by blam

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1 posted on 12/21/2007 7:25:59 PM PST by blam
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To: blam

A misleading headline.

Trying to be funny and actually being funny are two different things.


2 posted on 12/21/2007 7:29:15 PM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: blam

I think this “male scientist” is playing a joke on the people who are paying his salary.


3 posted on 12/21/2007 7:29:15 PM PST by DManA
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To: blam

Who’s to say aggressive humour is funnier humour?
Oh.
Men.
Brit men.
With underwear on their heads, no doubt.


4 posted on 12/21/2007 7:29:45 PM PST by ValerieTexas
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To: blam

Have you heard about corduroy pillows?

They’re making headlines all over!


5 posted on 12/21/2007 7:30:42 PM PST by Hegemony Cricket (Although most dead people vote democrat, aborted babies, if given the choice, would vote Republican.)
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To: blam

Nothin’ new, really: Women nurture, men prod. It makes for a working team.


6 posted on 12/21/2007 7:30:59 PM PST by bannie
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To: ValerieTexas
When they're not wearing woman's dresses. (Did I make a funny?)
7 posted on 12/21/2007 7:31:05 PM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: blam

While I don’t know about entire genders, I would have to say that I have never met a woman as funny as I am. Or as modest. Or handsome.


8 posted on 12/21/2007 7:33:46 PM PST by domenad (In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
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To: blam

This is a serious finding!


9 posted on 12/21/2007 7:34:29 PM PST by Revolting cat! (We all need someone we can bleed on...)
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To: blam
according to a male scientist

Nuff said …

10 posted on 12/21/2007 7:34:37 PM PST by doc1019 (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: CaptainK

HA!
Benny Hill lives on!!


11 posted on 12/21/2007 7:35:35 PM PST by ValerieTexas
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To: blam

Next, a scientist is going to discover that Jews are funnier than gentiles!


12 posted on 12/21/2007 7:35:42 PM PST by Revolting cat! (We all need someone we can bleed on...)
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To: Hegemony Cricket

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
A gossip is someone with a great sense of rumor.
A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
A man needs a mistress just to break the monogamy.
A man’s home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.
A pessimist’s blood type is always B-negative.
A successful diet is the triumph of mind over platter.
Banning the bra was a big flop.
Condoms should be used on every conceivable occasion.
Corduroy pillows are making headlines.
Dancing cheek-to-cheek is really a form of floor play.
Dijon vu - the same mustard as before.
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
Energizer Bunny arrested - charged with battery.
I fired my masseuse today. She rubbed me the wrong way.
I used to be a lumberjack, but I just couldn’t hack it, so they gave me the axe.
I used to work in a blanket factory, but it folded.
If electricity comes from electrons... does morality come from morons?
Is a book on voyeurism a peeping tome?
Marriage is the mourning after the knot before.
My wife really likes to make pottery, but to me it’s just kiln time.
Practice safe eating - always use condiments.
Reading whilst sunbathing makes you well-red.
Sea captains don’t like crew cuts.
Shotgun wedding - a case of wife or death.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
When two egotists meet, it’s an I for an I.
When you dream in color, it’s a pigment of your imagination.
Without geometry, life is pointless.


13 posted on 12/21/2007 7:35:47 PM PST by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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Nothin’ new, really: Women nurture, men prod. It makes for a working team.

A very astute and impressive observation.

14 posted on 12/21/2007 7:36:59 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: blam

I’m stealing those.


15 posted on 12/21/2007 7:37:21 PM PST by ValerieTexas
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To: ValerieTexas
Witty women are attractive (such as yourself). It is odd that “funny” women seem to be dykish or confirmed lesbians. Rosie O, Ellen D, Elaine Boosler, etc...
16 posted on 12/21/2007 7:37:45 PM PST by OCC
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To: ValerieTexas

come on....don’t get defensive. If you really think that wimmins are funnier than mens then....oh nevermind. You can’t be serious.

come on val....men are programmed to perform. we have to earn our right at the mating table. you guys get to sit back and just pick amongst us.


17 posted on 12/21/2007 7:39:37 PM PST by krb (If you're not outraged, people probably like having you around.)
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To: blam

Guy could be in more trouble than a cartoonist doing sketches of mohammed.


18 posted on 12/21/2007 7:39:44 PM PST by spunkets ("Freedom is about authority", Rudy Giuliani, gun grabber)
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To: doc1019

LOL
I thought the same thing... :)


19 posted on 12/21/2007 7:40:01 PM PST by najida (As God is my witness! The cockatoos ate my breakfast..)
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To: blam

He’s probably a fag!


20 posted on 12/21/2007 7:41:30 PM PST by bray (Let's Bring Christ Back to Christmas)
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