> > > > > > 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. ------------------------ 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/
