--- In [email protected], akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Thats the stripper Barry wrote one of his stories about, > > right? > > > > > > > > > > > > I thought that was Toots Sweet. > > > > > > > > > > There's now effective drugs that can cure that for you Rory. Or > > > think of baseball. > > > > > > > > Cure what? Alzheimer's? And think what of baseball? > > > > > > Toots Sweet --> Tout suite = quickly; toot ~ too ; strippers ~ sex; > > > ==> sex too quickly. > > > > > > Boy, you need one of Jim's beanie caps! > > > > You strike me as too clever by half, and as a result, half as clever. > > > Authur Koestler in his great book, Act of Creation, suggest that humor > is the "flash" connection between unrelated, disparate areas. He > builds the same case for art and scientific discovery. > > MMY made a similar point about humor in his great response to Andy > Kaufman asking "what makes things funny" --- Answer, in summarey: the > bridging of two extremes, that reveals the gap. The wider the > extremes, the funnier it is." I think that idea drove Andy to try to > find the biggest extremes he could. Way beyond what average comics go for. > > As Tom points out -- or as I understand his point -- laughter bursts > out when big paradoxes are "grooked". As is my experience. Sometimes > this leads to one laughing from the gut, while everyone else turns > around and stares. > > The above "joke" was not a contrived, analytical, "clever" one. It was > simply a "flash" in which all those points were similtaneously > connected. Though the explanation may make it seem like a contrived > effort. Having to explain a joke often has that effect. The > similtenaity of connections, and the "flash", are lost in long linear > explanations. > > Thats why I haven't tried to explain the "I just don't want to be > overshadowed" joke to Judy. Someday, she may just wake up in > uncontrollable laughter when the joke "connects". Or not.
Thanks for this- I have heard the same thing about humor and it rings true. As a result I laugh a lot, with others and to myself. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
