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Humor. It's often in the top two of the list, of what women want in a man. I'm not familiar with men's lists, so I don't know where they would put it. well maybe *a small digression: it probably has to do with T&A, looks, not having a "good personality" and being a virgin. At least for him.
WHAT STARTED THIS QUEST?
Short and simple. I bought the music from the "Book of Mormon". My husband and I listened to it on the way to Tampa and we were aghast at the lyrics, innuendos and concepts. We were also laughing hysterically. They were irreverent, insulting, provocative and raunchy. I later found out that Seth McFarland was involved. Enough said.
SOME OF WHAT PSYCHOLOGY SAYS.
*I will try to throw in some puns, humor etc. during the "drier" segments. I don't know if you'll laugh. I hope it's like a treasure hunt that forces you to read between the lines.
that is a trick to see if you will read stuff. Just call me trickster. But please, don't call me Tricky Dick. I HATED that man.
BACK TO LEARNING:
Every infant smiles. At three months they giggle and laugh at their parents. Probably because they haven't figured out what these people are going to do to them later on in life, but maybe they also know something I don't. [which if you've noticed, is quite a lot]. They are probably thinking we are morons when we make faces at them and that's why they are laughing. Apparently the old "they are smiling because they have gas theory" has been ruled out. I would concur. Gas pains, notice they call them pains, do not make me laugh, so why would it do that to an infant? What dumbcaph came up with that?
"Humor is a very complicated psychological response; it's multifaceted," Beins says. [I don't know who he/she, is/was, but the quote is from this Beins person.]
"Children have to learn about humor. As kids start getting a bit older, their humor becomes more sophisticated."
Yes. I have noticed that as children mature, farting jokes are no longer funny. Unfortunately, not everyone's sense of humor grows up.
Then Beins goes on to say,
"It becomes about separating incongruous events into humorous and non-humorous situations depends on many factors, including mood and what children learn from others." huh?
I remember incongruity from geometry. Are they referring to triangles and circles"? Alright. I am joking.
When something is incongruous it usually means that it doesn't fit in with what else is going on or what you expect to see.
What comes to mind is the movie Fantasia. There is one part where there are elephants dancing on their toes, wearing pink tutus. I just looked this up to get the picture, and apparently they were hypos. Or maybe the elephants weren't wearing tutus. The music was lovely but I don't recall it at the moment. Apparently, recall is not my strong point at this moment in time. I do think I recall that it was even more humorous when I saw it in College after having smoked something illegal. .Why did everything seem funny then? But this is a serious Blog so I shall continue in educating whomever is reading this.
IF WE LEARN TO HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR, HOW COME SO MANY PEOPLE DON'T ONE?
OOPS. FIRST WE SHOULD DEFINE HUMOR.
According to one source,
Humor is a form of communication that is judged to be amusing and makes others laugh.
DO YOU AGREE? I CAN LIVE WITH THAT, BUT since THERE ARE SEVERAL TYPES OF HUMOR, I'LL CUT AND PASTE WHAT OTHER SOURCES SAY. THEY ARE MOSTLY FROM WIKI, WITH AN OCCASIONAL COMMENT FROM ME. WHICH IS REDUNDANT SINCE WHO ELSE WOULD BE COMMENTING?
There has not been a lot of research on humor. Most likely because it would not be easy to research. I don't believe that scientists know where in the brain, humor resides. That is, if it is in any one area. Then, how do you define and measure it? The joke was funny on a scale of
1) not at all funny to 10) peed my pants?
However, the little that's been done, breaks humor down into three main types:
According to WIKI these are them. (great grammar, yeah?)
Relief theory: Won't you be relieved when this technical shit is done? Remember the commercial? How do you spell R-E-L-I-E-F? R-o-la-i-d-s. Maybe they should have given the Rolaids to the infants with gas. Anyway, I thought that was funny.
Relief theory maintains that laughter is a homeostatic mechanism by which psychological tension is reduced. Humor may thus for example serve to facilitate relief of the tension caused by one's fears. Laughter and mirth, according to relief theory, result from this release of nervous energy. Humor, according to relief theory, is used mainly to overcome sociocultural inhibitions and reveal suppressed desires. It is believed that this is the reason we laugh whilst being tickled, due to a buildup of tension as the tickler "strikes". [I wonder who wrote this. Whilst? suppressed desires? It must be some Freudian]*
*me Also, isn't responding to being tickled a physiological response? I like the part about repressed and inhibited desires. That might explain all the sex jokes.
Superiority theory:
The superiority theory of humor traces back to Plato and Aristotle, and Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan. The general idea is that a person laughs about misfortunes of others (so called schadenfreude), because these misfortunes assert the person's superiority on the background of shortcomings of others. Socrates was reported by Plato as saying that the ridiculous was characterized by a display of self-ignorance. For Aristotle, we laugh at inferior or ugly individuals, because we feel a joy at feeling superior to them. * me again. or maybe we're just glad it didn't happen to us.except for this example.
Incongruity theory:
Further information: ridiculousness OH OH OH That's me. Dr. Ridiculous and I don't understand this type of humor. That would probably be incongruous. Yeah?
Since the main point of the theory is not the incongruity per se, but its realization and resolution (i.e., putting the objects in question into the real relation), it is often called the incongruity-resolution theory.
I'm not joking. I'm not quite sure what they mean. I think it's when you realize that something is out of place, or not in keeping with the reality of what's happening. Oh yeah. Maybe it's like the example with the rhinoceros's in tutus. Or maybe they were rhinelephance. You're getting the drift now. Right? okay. Let's move on. Please.
WHAT'S FUNNY AND WHAT ISN'T?
This is where we can run into trouble. It appears that it's not just that there are three different types of humor. It seems that each individual has their own spin on what's funny or what's not.
what is the most universal type of humor?
The way I see it, that would be physical comedy. We'd call it slapstick. You know. When the guy slips and falls on a banana peel. My hypothesis on this is that wordless humor can be understood by anyone making it universal. Which makes sense. I believe that even cavemen found things humorous, and although I cannot prove it, I do not think that caveman had yet developed language. Humor is most likely a survival mechanism that is built into our genes.
Physical humor is the least subtle and easily understood. This, would suggest a sort of hierarchy in the development of humor and laughter.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WORDS ENTER?
Well, for starters, there is a different cognitive level at work. Words can have more than one meaning. They can be said in varied ways. The way one says a word can change it's meaning. I believe that in Chinese, the inflection can change the entire word. That's why email and texts can be so dangerous. Without the inflection or reading of the person's face, you are really clueless about the meaning or intent of the words.
Humor can also be different within cultures. I have a vague recollection that someone, years ago said that British jokes have, what we Yanks would call the "punch line" in the middle of the joke. This of course may have been thought because we can't understand British accents, especially if they're talking too fast or for the entire human race, if they are from Manchester. Then, all hope is lost for any understanding.
Yiddish humor is generally of a particular nature. Especially when using the example of a Jewish mother. I will tell an easy one.
Mrs. Gold bought her son Max two sweaters for his birthday. One brown and one blue. The next time Mrs. Gold saw her son, he was wearing the brown sweater. Mrs. Gold says, "what, you didn't like the blue one?"
If I have to explain, you are one of the people with no sense of humor, or no experience with Jewish mothers.
I don't have many black friends, but in my opinion, in the Black culture, making mother jokes is not going to get you laughs. More likely it will get you knocked out.
TO CONTINUE WITH THE LABELING OF TYPES OF HUMOR I WILL USE AN ARTICLE FROM PSYCHOLOGY TODAY. A WELL RESPECTED JOURNAL. (that was sarcasm)
Though humor is essentially social, how you use it says a lot about your sense of self, at least according to the article.
Put-Down Humor - I'm assuming they are referring to the type of jokes that make fun of other people. I guess they would include sarcasm, but I'm not sure. They did. I checked back. Also ridiculing people, so since I'm Dr. Ridiculous, I have to ask myself if I ridicule people. I would disagree. I prefer to ridicule myself, which they talk about later.
Bonding Humor - Me, I thought this was humor about S & M, although I'm not able to tell one off the top of my head. So,
I had to quote them, because it really didn't say anything specific. Like if you tell dirty jokes, is that going to bond you. People who use bonding humor are fun to have around; they say amusing things, tell jokes, engage in witty banter and generally lighten the mood. These are the people who give humor a good name. They're perceived as warm, down-to-earth and kind, good at reducing the tension in uncomfortable situations and able to laugh at their own faults.
Hate-Me Humor- Self-criticism or if you have a high brow vocabulary, self-deprecating humor. This is related to self-defecating humor. Did you laugh? Or did you not think that was funny.
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| it doesn't exactly fit, but I had it on hand. |
Laughing At Life - This means you don't take life too seriously and can see the world and make jokes about it that aren't offensive. Or at least that's what I think they mean.
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| I don't think this is offensive and it shows us laughing at life. Ha Ha. |
hypothesis:
Some days are like a bad joke. Some days are fun. Some days are neither. Regardless of the kind of day, humor can always make it better. Laughter is a gift you can give that doesn't cost anything and will give you a lot back.
Unless, you're in a public venue and you steal someone else's material. Then you will be in big trouble for copy write infringement and you'll need a lawyer.
If I could remember any, now would be a good time for a lawyer joke. But I'm really tired. So, I shall quote two of my old favorite comedians.
George. "Say goodnight Gracie," Gracie, "Goodnight Gracie."
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