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

[nuke rocketeer]

The drunk was floundering down the alley carrying a box with holes on the side. He bumped into a friend who asked, "What do you have in there pal?"

"It’s a mongoose."

"What have you got that for?"

"Well, you know how drunk I can get. When I get drunk I see snakes, and I'm scared to death of snakes. That's why I got this mongoose, for protection."

"But," the friend said, "you idiot! Those are imaginary snakes."

"That's okay," said the drunk, showing his friend the interior of the box, "So is the mongoose."

[nuke rocketeer]

[Feiny]

I keep rubbin your weiner but all I get is a messy hand.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

14. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

LOL!!

[Froufrou]

What does this tell us about rabbits, that we didn't already know, that is...?

[rzeznikj at stout]

Two thirds of a pun...8^)

[rzeznikj at stout]

ROTFLMAO!!

[ArGee]

I keep rubbin your weiner but all I get is a messy hand.

Suddenly I am reminded of a scene from Animal House and a young lady pulling a plastic glove off her hand.

Dang I'm old.

I had to explain the Alice Kramden cartoon to all of my coworkers.

Shalom.

[BJClinton]

I notice you left out "breathalyzer test"

[Irish_Thatcherite]

*comes home to wife*

I only had a couple of drinks!

[rzeznikj at stout]

Hmmm. Good point...

Though I found it in one of my emails, so...

[ArGee]

My favorite Animal House joke is the Fawn Liebowitz scam!!!

I remember when Dean Wormer was talking with someone in his office when the guy came to remove the horse. He measured the door and measured the horse, which was already starting to show signs or rigormortis. In a later scene he is unpacking a chainsaw. Then the camera moves to not show the horse as the sound of the starting chainsaw hits. Cracked me up BIG time.

Did the Americans give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

Germans?

Shhhh! He's on a roll.

Shalom.

[JJR RNCH]

Finally made it. Day from HELL!!! Got everything done 5 minutes before the market closed.

Is it beer-thirty yet, pppplllllleeeeeaaaaassssseeeee!!!!

[Froufrou]

Lemme personally setchoo up with the world-famous gimmedraw...that's 32 ounces of fresh ice cold brewski...
[slurppppp]

[MotleyGirl70]

I love your new video...

Come Jump In My Car

Sorry, I couldn't resist :)

[FredZarguna]

on chicks its cool

doable

Yeah, but you have to put a bag over her personality...

[Feiny]

I love that movie. I have the 25 year anniversay edition.
Was that Babs or Muffy?