It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.
~Oscar Wilde


If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
~Mahatma Ghandi


Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
~Aristotle


Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
~Robert Benchley


Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
~Will Rogers


Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
~Langston Hughes


Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
~Francis Bacon


One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
~Jean de la Bruyère


The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
~Socrates


Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
~Freeman John Dyson


It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
~Max Forrester Eastman


It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.
~Stephen Fry


I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.
~Jack Handey


A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
~Georg Christopher Lichtenberg


At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.
~Eric Idle


I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another?
~Theodore M. Hesburgh


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

theAudience said:

One explanation of humour is based on the fact that a great deal of humour is a consequence of language. Language is an approximation of thoughts through symbolic manipulation, and the gap between the expectations inherent in those symbols and the breaking of those expectations leads to laughter. Irony is explicitly this form of comedy, whereas slapstick takes more passive social norms relating to physicality and plays with them. In other words, comedy is a sign of a 'bug' in the symbolic make-up of language, as well as a self-correcting mechanism for such bugs. Once the problem in meaning has been described through a joke, people immediately begin correcting their impressions of the symbols that have been mocked. This is one explanation why jokes are often funny only when told the first time.

2the9s said:

He's great. I love Jaws. It was so much better than the movie.

ThreadBare said:

That's funny because you take two people with the same last name and playfully conflate them to comedic effect.

2the9s said:

That's funny because you've been wanting all week to use "conflate" in a sentence.

ThreadBare said:

That's funny because you mock my pretentiousness, making me seem the fool to an audience of countless strangers.

2the9s said:

That's funny because you're stranger than us all.

ThreadBare said:

That isn't funny at all!

2the9s said:

You're quite right. It's actually very serious.

I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another?
~Theodore M. Hesburgh

This one is my favorite and good words of wisdom to live by.

I needed that today, tA.

Thanks!

You're quite welcome.

I figured it might be needed after the "Bikini" thread.


tA

Tribal Disorder

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I think the bikini post kinda went somewhere it was not initally meant to, but keeping a light heart is always a good thing. And so was this post.

Why no quotes from women? Are you trying to be funny?!?

jone70 said:

C'mon now. I was more concerned about what was being said, not who said it.


And how the hell are you?


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

And now I know, and knowing is half the battle.

2the9s said:

UncleGrandpa said:

Always.


tA

Tribal Disorder

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This thread is much appreciated from everybody, I think.

2the9s said:

you're so smart and interesting.

2the9s said:

I had to read this a few times but it is one plausible explanation.


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theAudience said:

I know, I was just giving you a hard time. Things in NYC are fine, thanks for asking.

jone70 said:

Good to hear that things are going well for you.

And I know you were just razzin' me.
But you know, me being a B'klyn born and raised kid, I wasn't gonna take that lying down.


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kidelrich said:

That's good to know.

Sometimes we all need to just step back and lighten it up a bit.
Generally, I don't think anyone here intentionally means to be vicious or cruel to a particular person/group.


tA

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Two men are walking down the street, one walks into a bar but the other ducked.

theAudience said:

Thanks. You're the voice of reason.

AnckSuNamun said:

Thank you.
Although some might say, The Voice of Treason.

Guess it's a matter of perspective.


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theAudience said:

2the9s said:

thankyou, this post has enriched my life no end.