Official Friday Silliness Thread's Salute to Sex and Laughter

Popular Science ^ | July, 2006 | Per Study of Eric Bressler and Sigal Balshine

[sully777]

From the OFST Education FIles: Subgroup The Sexes and Silliness and Sex

Women Like Funny Men


Women Like Funny Men--The Study: “The influence of humor on desirability,” Evolution and Human Behavior, Jan. 2006

The Findings: Psychologists Eric Bressler and Sigal Balshine enlisted 210 undergraduate psychology students at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, to consider, for class credit, photographs of campus peers. Each photo was paired with a remark that was ostensibly funny (“My high school was so rough, we had our own coroner”) or ostensibly dull (“I like having friends over for dinner”). Women found the “funny” men most desirable, and a follow-up study showed that men preferred women who were receptive to their jokes.

Why Bother? The scientists acknowledged in their paper the well-established observation that “humor is . . . more readily appreciated in the presence of others” but wondered why it is that women prefer funny guys. Could the phenomenon be a matter of Darwinian survival? The lead scientist declined an interview, but the paper suggests that studies like it further our understanding of evolution by pinpointing which human traits might confer survival advantages. One theory is that men may “produce humor more” to help “monopolize the reproductive potential of more than one woman,” a.k.a. to spread their genes.

For the abstract click here Original study abstract
Evolution and Human Behavior Volume 27, Issue 1, January 2006, Pages 29-39

[ArGee]

Next day, the little girl comes back from school and says: "Mummy, today at school we learnt the alphabet. All the other girls only went as far as D, but listen to me: A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K ! It's good "innit?"

I thought the blonde alphabet went: Nearly A, A, B, C, D, DD, DDD, E, EE ...

Shalom.

[a_screen_name]

Time for Messin' with Sasquatch

[MotleyGirl70]

[Irish_Thatcherite]

I said no sugar!!

[Irish_Thatcherite]

I there a torpedo under the water?

[ArGee]

A group of gentlemen are playing a very high stakes poker game in Vegas. The venu is very high-class and all conversation is in hushed tones. That is, until a blonde walks into the room, plunks some coins into the Coke machine, and presses a button. The bottle comes rolling into the delivery tray and the blonde starts shouting and jumping up and down. She then pulls out the Coke and repeats the performance. After about the 5th Coke one of the dealers quietly walks over and asks, "Miss, what are you doing?"

"DUH! WINNING!!!"

Shalom.

[BJClinton]

I never knew I had an interest in volleyball.

[BJClinton]

Stunningly distateful.

[rzeznikj at stout]

And the point is...

[RandallFlagg]

I'll add a line from British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaking to the United States Congress:

Mr Speaker, sir, my thrill on receiving this award was only a little diminished on being told that the first Congressional Gold Medal was awarded to George Washington for what Congress called his 'wise and spirited conduct' in getting rid of the British out of Boston. On our way down here, Senator Frist was kind enough to show me the fireplace where, in 1814, the British had burnt the Congress Library.
I know this is kind of late, but sorry.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

hehehe... she might play the cigarette machine next!!

[Froufrou]

Reverse wedgie?

[rzeznikj at stout]

LOL...

I now present the Blond's medical dictionary...8^)

Anally -- occurring yearly
Artery -- study of paintings
Bacteria -- back door of cafeteria
Barium -- what doctors do when treatment fails
Bowel -- letter like A.E.I.O.U
Caesarian section -- district in Rome
Cat scan -- searching for kitty
Cauterize -- Made eye contact with her
Colic -- sheep dog
Coma -- a punctuation mark
Congenital -- friendly
D&C -- where Washington is
Diarrhea -- journal of daily events
Dilate -- to live long
Enema -- not a friend
Fester -- quicker
Fibula -- a small lie
Genital -- non-Jewish
G.I. Series -- soldiers' ball game
Grippe -- suitcase
Hangnail -- coat hook
Impotent -- distinguished, well known
Intense pain -- torture in a teepee
Labour pain -- got hurt at work
Medical staff -- doctor's cane
Morbid -- higher offer
Nitrate -- cheaper than day rate
Node -- was aware of
Outpatient -- person who had fainted
Pap smear -- fatherhood test
Pelvis -- cousin of Elvis
Post operative -- letter carrier
Protein -- favouring young people
Rectum -- damn near killed 'em
Recovery room -- place to do upholstery
Rheumatic -- amorous
Scar -- rolled tobacco leaf
Secretion -- hiding anything
Seizure -- Roman emperor
Serology -- study of knighthood
Tablet -- small tablet
Terminal Illness -- sickness at airport
Tibia -- country in North Africa
Tumor -- an extra pair
Urine -- opposite of you're out
Varicose -- located nearby
Vein -- conceited

[Froufrou]

Stone hinge?

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yep!

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For some people the only puns they make are about dairy products, because the rest are just too cheesy. When they think of one, they tend to milk it for all it's worth. Usually I don't think they're gouda enough, but we could find a whey to cream off the best ones.
I cheddar to think what they'll come out with next.

[nuke rocketeer]

Old kings never die; they just get throne away.

For Hamburger Hill,
General must muster his men:
So, he mustard them.

What's the difference between a weasel and a stoat?
A weasel is weasily recognised but a stoat is stoatally different.

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