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^ Now THAT'S funny ^
Larry, you often say amusing things. Your humor seems dry. I enjoy it. It's something that develops through life, if you are lucky.
by mojo on Wed Jun 08, 05 8:55am
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All of us what? "Older folks?" I fart in your general direction, Larry! #:>)
On a more serious note, there is probably a connection between your level of moral development and the jokes you find funny.
In one study, subjects were presented with 100 jokes and asked to rate them from 1-10 for how funny they were.
Then they were given Lawrence Kohlberg's test for levels of moral development.
As it turned out, people with low moral development found "superiority humor" (i.e. ethnic, blonde, et al) more funny than "incongruity humor" (i.e., the "twist" at the end is unexpected and creates the humor).
There was an opposite outcome for persons rated as having higher moral development, according to Kohlberg's system.
How valid is it? Hard to know. One possible confounding variable is education: Folks with more education tended to score higher on moral development than others. The reason this is a confound is that these folks had probably learned PC values from their educations and masked their actual responses in the tests.
Still, there is probably some validity to the idea of a connection between what we find funny and our moral development. Consider, who laughs the loudest at ethnic jokes?
Anyhow, enjoyed the thoughts and the ballot.
I'd say that humor is, to some degree, acquired. I used to be as funny as full-blown AIDS, but life has enabled me to see what's funny or not in Creation. Cletus, maxxman andd jappy, however, were born with the stuff.
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