Here’s an interesting article on the Science! of laughter. I find the Science! of humor pretty interesting myself and have numerous theories and how it works and its purpose, but have just never gotten to formally writing them down. Then again, I made most of my theories through observation and never actually gotten around to doing any real experimentation — like tickling rats.
Still, if I dissect humor enough, then I can write a computer program to write all my jokes for this blog, and they will be the funniest jokes ever because they will have been selected by Science!. And maybe not everyone will get them, but other computers programmed with the same humor algorithms will find them quite funny. Then the computers will trade jokes and laughter back and forth but it will just look like a bunch of hex numbers to us and then we’ll get all paranoid about what are the computer joking about and worry that maybe they’re all laughing at us. Then we’ll go to shut down the computers, and that’s when Skynet freaks out and nukes us all.
Eh, maybe I should just get some rats to tickle.
First!
Frank, you need to go blow some crap up and shoot up some crap ASAP to let off some steam.
Sheesh. Must be a techie thing.
P.S. make sure you use SCIENCE! and MATH! to aim correctly!
See? That’s why I like you, you plan ahead.
Some people (like the guy who invented the Bedazzler) might have gone with their humor computers and they’d be standing around looking all surprised as Arnold blows their heads off.
I have to wonder if MarkoMancuso is an infiltrator, SCIENCE! is MATH!.
If there’s no MATH! it’s not SCIENCE!, it’s probably global warmmongering.
You mean the jokes here AREN’t written by a computer?
Veeshir, pardon me, I’m a novice in both subjects.
My edumacation records clearly display my preference for HISTORY(!).
I wonder why they call them “fingers”, cause, you know, I never see them “fing”.
Personally I like irony almost as much as laughter. Little things like the lib dems worrying about Christian? militia while they’re systematically stripping us of our rights. Like a small group of fringers is a worry to government force. Ask the Branch Davidians, oh that’s right they’re extinct……….irony, I love it.
Thats always how it starts; first it’s just tickling rats…then before you know it your spanking primates. A slippery slope, beware young men.
I don’t get it
So where is this interesting Science! article? The link does not work.
Enquiring Scientists Want to Know!
Interesting thing about laughter…once you start, you can’t stop. Like when you watch one of those videos of congress critters stepping on their…parts…ya gotta start laughing, otherwise you’d cry.
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Looking for rats to tickle…there’s plenty of ‘um in Washington DC! Big fat, sleazy, slimy, ticklish ones, they’re called Demorats!!….Hey I gotta a million of ‘um, Shekey Republican, famous ethnic, stand-up comic, Washington DC.