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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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To: CaptainK

So did Lucy....

Honestly, I think women are funniest to other women, and men are funniest to other men (usually). It’s like arguing apples and oranges really.


61 posted on 12/21/2007 8:56:50 PM PST by najida (As God is my witness! The cockatoos ate my breakfast..)
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To: najida
Lucy??? With who? If you say Gary Morton that doesn't count. I've only heard about Rickey's prodigious cheating. .

Honestly, I think women are funniest to other women, and men are funniest to other men (usually). It’s like arguing apples and oranges really

I agree with you on that point.

62 posted on 12/21/2007 9:01:12 PM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Diogenesis

That is a lovely photo. Did she say something?


63 posted on 12/21/2007 9:01:26 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze
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To: CaptainK
I think it was Gary that I was thinking of....

I don’t think Ricky cheated (the rat bastard) because she was funnier, but to ‘put her in her place’ so to speak.....she was the top name and face and it was his way of getting back and degrading her.

Anyhow, Hitchens isn’t that funny to me, however, writers like Evanovich can make me cry with laughter.

64 posted on 12/21/2007 9:07:20 PM PST by najida (As God is my witness! The cockatoos ate my breakfast..)
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To: bannie

She was bad enough that years later she apologized to me for it.


65 posted on 12/21/2007 9:08:12 PM PST by Secret Agent Man
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To: ValerieTexas

Well my wife would be surprised.

Hmmm, you kind of sound like her....


66 posted on 12/21/2007 9:09:03 PM PST by Secret Agent Man
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To: Secret Agent Man

I’m sorry!!!

I was kidding.


67 posted on 12/21/2007 9:10:01 PM PST by bannie
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To: bannie
Nothin’ new, really: Women nurture, men prod. It makes for a working team.

Cf. Freud, Wit and It's Relation to the Unconscious. "The libido of looking and touching is found in every person in two forms, active and passive, or masculine and feminine."

Needless to say this theme is elaborated, e.g. "Among rural people or in the ordinary hostelry one can observe that not till the waitress or hostess approaches the guests does the obscene wit come out; in a higher order of society just the opposite happens, here the presence of a woman puts an end to smutty talk."

I highly recommend this work.

68 posted on 12/21/2007 9:14:16 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: blam

I think there is more of a humor divide between liberals and conservatives than between men and women.

Liberals have no sense of humor about anything.

I once saw a book full of “screw in the light bulb” jokes, and one of them was, “how many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb?” The punchline? “That’s not funny.”


69 posted on 12/21/2007 9:16:59 PM PST by Disambiguator (Political Correctness is criminal insanity writ large.)
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To: potlatch

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Funny peculiar?


70 posted on 12/21/2007 9:17:05 PM PST by devolve (---- - Hey Boone! - My bonus check is late again! -)
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To: bannie

It’s okay, I can laugh at it now, and she can too. Let’s just say that PMS is real, kids, and it can kill you. :)


71 posted on 12/21/2007 9:18:12 PM PST by Secret Agent Man
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To: blam


There's no friggin' way ... go on and get down with yer bad self ...
72 posted on 12/21/2007 9:20:44 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: devolve

[Funny peculiar?]

Lol, are you worried?? snicker. They ‘may’ think they’re funnier than they are and we women put up with it!!
Naa, women may try to be more polite, I don’t know.

Heading to bed.


73 posted on 12/21/2007 9:25:15 PM PST by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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To: Disambiguator

HA!
I love it


74 posted on 12/21/2007 9:33:39 PM PST by ValerieTexas
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To: blam


Funny...how ?
75 posted on 12/21/2007 9:39:03 PM PST by stylin19a
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To: Diogenesis

But she IS cute!

I’m sure her mother told her a thousand times, “Don’t you worry sugar, nobody will ever ask YOU a hard question!”


76 posted on 12/21/2007 9:40:40 PM PST by Redbob
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To: ValerieTexas
"Benny Hill lives on!!"

LOL! I just watched the Best of Benny Hill on DVD last night. I enjoyed it because I can fast forward through his stupid singing numbers. Some of it is still supremely funny. It always makes me laugh when he pats Jackie Wright on the top of his little old man head.

77 posted on 12/21/2007 9:46:42 PM PST by boop (Who doesn't love poison pot pies?)
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To: blam

Oh? Do I amuse you? Funny? Funny how? Funny like a clown? Funny like 'haha'?

78 posted on 12/21/2007 9:51:02 PM PST by Bonaparte
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To: dr_lew
I'm workin' on my own case study.


79 posted on 12/21/2007 9:58:17 PM PST by bannie
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To: billorites

Sarah Silverman is funny a lot of the time because she is so unbelievably un-PC. Most of the big female comics are painfully politically correct, which is never funny. The worst is Elaine Boosler.


80 posted on 12/21/2007 9:58:27 PM PST by boop (Who doesn't love poison pot pies?)
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