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Official Friday Silliness Thread's Salute to Sex and Laughter
Popular Science ^ | July, 2006 | Per Study of Eric Bressler and Sigal Balshine

Posted on 07/14/2006 12:42:03 AM PDT by 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


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KEYWORDS: bastilleday; cheese; comicsex; humor; moose; punmania; punsandpunsoffun; sexyhumor; sister
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To: BJClinton


Checkin in. Just a reminder: Good thing you don't have two...yet.
101 posted on 07/14/2006 8:10:11 AM PDT by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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To: nuke rocketeer

Wow, that was the cleanest four posts since 1-50!


102 posted on 07/14/2006 8:11:04 AM PDT by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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To: sully777

Yeah, I think I did get a little carried away this morning.....


103 posted on 07/14/2006 8:15:10 AM PDT by nuke rocketeer
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To: nuke rocketeer

104 posted on 07/14/2006 8:16:40 AM PDT by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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To: sully777
How's this.....


105 posted on 07/14/2006 8:16:59 AM PDT by nuke rocketeer
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To: BJClinton

Hey ... that's right! I haven't been around a lot -- do you have a baby now?


106 posted on 07/14/2006 8:21:20 AM PDT by Chanticleer (Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point. Lewis)
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To: nuke rocketeer

107 posted on 07/14/2006 8:24:13 AM PDT by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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To: sully777

108 posted on 07/14/2006 8:24:20 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
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To: Chanticleer

109 posted on 07/14/2006 8:26:09 AM PDT by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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To: Liberty Valance


110 posted on 07/14/2006 8:28:15 AM PDT by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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To: rudypoot

REMEMBER!!!!!!



The word for the day is LEGS.




Help spread the word.



Sorry, I just couldn't resist.


111 posted on 07/14/2006 8:32:36 AM PDT by fredhead (Women want me....Fish fear me....Oh well, one out of two ain't bad.)
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To: sully777

112 posted on 07/14/2006 8:37:34 AM PDT by fredhead (Women want me....Fish fear me....Oh well, one out of two ain't bad.)
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To: sully777

Hillary Clinton goes to a primary school in Ithaca, New York, to talk about the world.

After her talk she offers question time. One little boy puts up his hand, and the Senator asks him what his name is.

"Richard", replied the little boy.

"And what is your question, Richard?"

"I have three questions:
1. Whatever happened to your medical health care plan?
2. Why would you run for President after your husband shamed the office?
3. Whatever happened to all those things you took when you left the White House?"

Just then the bell rings for recess. Hillary Clinton informs the kiddies that they will continue after recess.

When they resume Hillary says, "OK, where were we? Oh, that's right, question time. Who has a question?"

A different little boy puts his hand up.

Hillary points him out and asks him what his name is.

"My name is George."

"And what is your question, George?"

"I have 5 questions:
1. Whatever happened to your medical health care plan?
2. Why would you run for President after your husband shamed the office?
3. Whatever happened to all those things you took when you left the White House?
4. Why did the recess bell go off 20 minutes early?
5. What happened to Richard?"


113 posted on 07/14/2006 8:40:15 AM PDT by Mathews (Ambition, absent a moral compass, is naked destruction.)
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114 posted on 07/14/2006 8:41:09 AM PDT by Cyber Ninja (His legacy is a stain on the dress.)
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To: sully777
Is this silly enough?

You are driving in a car at a constant speed. On your left side is a valley and on your right side is a fire engine traveling at the same speed as you. In front of you is a galloping pig which is the same size as your car and you cannot overtake it. Behind you is a helicopter flying at ground level. Both the giant pig and the helicopter are also traveling at the same speed as you. What must you do to safely get out of this highly dangerous situation?

answer below

Answer:

Get off the children's "Merry-Go-Round", you're drunk.

115 posted on 07/14/2006 8:47:41 AM PDT by oldtimer2 (You don' t defeat terrorism with temperance)
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To: sully777
One day in 1991 during a campaign stop a tornado hit the podium and Bill, Hillary, and AlGore found themselves in Oz. AlGore looks around and says, "This is great. I'm going to go find the Wizard and see if he can give me some brains."

Hillary looks around and says, "I've always wanted to be here. Maybe I can go with you, Al, and see if the Wizard can give me a heart."

Bill looks arund and says, "Where's Dorothy?"

Shalom.

116 posted on 07/14/2006 8:48:57 AM PDT by ArGee (The Ring must not be allowed to fall into Hillary's hands!)
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To: sully777

Even if you aren't a skier, you'll be able to appreciate the humor of the slopes as written by a New Orleans paper:

A friend just got back from a holiday skiing trip to Utah with the kind of story that warms the cockles of anybody's heart.

Conditions were perfect...12 below, no feeling in the toes, basic numbness all over...the "Tell me when we're having fun" kind of day.

One of the women in the group complained to her husband that she was in dire need of a rest room. He told her not to worry, that he was sure there was relief waiting at the top of the lift in the form of a powder room for female skiers in distress. He was wrong, of course, and the pain did not go away. If you've ever had nature hit its panic button in you, then you know that a temperature of 12 below doesn't help matters. With time running out, the woman weighed her options. Her husband, picking up on the intensity of the pain, suggested that since she was wearing an all-white ski outfit, she should go off in the woods and no one would even notice. He assured her, "The white will provide more than adequate camouflage."

So she headed for the tree line, began lowering her ski pants and proceeded to do her thing. If you've ever parked on the side of a slope, then you know there is a right way and wrong way to set your skis so you don't move.

Yup, you got it!!! She had them positioned the wrong way. Steep slopes are not forgiving...even duri ng the most embarrassing moments. Without warning, the woman found herself skiing backward, out-of-control, racing through the trees...somehow missing all of them and onto another slope. Her derriere and the reverse side were still bare, her pants down around her knees, and she was picking up speed all the while. She continued backwards, totally out-of-control, creating an unusual vista for the other skiers. The woman skied back under the lift and! finally collided violently with a pylon.

The bad news was that she broke her arm and was unable to pull up her ski pants. At long last her husband arrived, putting an end to her nudie show, then summoned the ski patrol. They transported her to a hospital.

While in the emergency room, a man with an obviously broken leg was put in the bed next to hers. "So, how'd you break your leg?" she asked, making small talk. "It was the stupidest thing you ever saw," he said. "I was riding up this ski lift and suddenly, I couldn't believe my eyes! There was this crazy woman skiing backward, out-of-control, down the mountain, with her bare bottom hanging out of her pants. I leaned over to get a better look and fell out of the lift." .....

"So, how'd you break your arm?"


117 posted on 07/14/2006 8:57:58 AM PDT by lilylangtree
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To: sully777; Chanticleer; fredhead

Henry was an entomologist at the local university. He was to be up for a promotion this year and with the promotion would come tenure. But there was a problem.
It was not that he couldn't teach - indeed two years ago he'd been honored by the undergraduates by being named their favorite teacher - No his problem was with his research: He hadn't had asuccessful research project in several years, and in this day of "Publish or Perish", this was not a good situation.
So that day, feeling depressed, he left the University as soon as his morning lecture was over, so that he could work in his garden. This always had been effective in relieving tension in the past.But to his chagrin, he found most of his roses were dying, and on further examination found they were infested with a parasite.
But what were these insects. They appeared to belong to the order Anapleura. That was strange. Anapleura infected mammals not plants.
He examined them more closely. Small. Wingless. Definitely a species of Pediculosis, but one he had never seen before. He gathered up several specimens, and rushed to his lab, full of new vigor.He examined the insects and detail and rapidly wrote an article describing this new species of insect.
Well, I'm sure you know result. The article was immediately accepted by the American Journal of Entomology. His job was saved and he received his most coveted tenure.And he received a new major grant to study this new species.
You could say he had discovered a new lice on leaf.


118 posted on 07/14/2006 9:16:31 AM PDT by nuke rocketeer
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Why did the man throw the clock out the window? He wanted to see time fly!

Sometimes when I'm bored, l make spaghetti just to PASTA time away.

How do crazy people go through the forest? They take the psycho path.

What did the fish say when he hit a concrete wall? "Damn."

What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work? A stick.

What do you get from a pampered cow? Spoiled milk.

How do you know if you've met a Korean vampire? He doesn't have a Seoul.

Why do bagpipers walk when they play? They're trying to get away from the noise.

Why do gorillas have big nostrils? Because they have big fingers.

Alarms: What an octopus is.

If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?

If people from Poland are called "Poles," why aren't people from Holland called "Holes?

If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?

In London, one man to another:
A: "You know, my daughter has married an Irishman"
B: "Oh, really?"
A: "No, O'Reilly"

Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

A: Did you hear about the guy with the corduroy pillow?
B: No, I didn't.
A: Really? It made headlines!

If lawyers are disbarred and priests defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed? (Teachers, of course, would be declassified!)

Snow White took photos of the Dwarfs and their surroundings. She took the film to be developed. After a week or so she went to get the finished photos. The clerk said the photos were not back from the processor. Needless to say, she was disappointed and started to cry. The clerk, trying to console her, said, "Don't worry. Someday your prints will come."

Why is it that if someone tells you that there are 1 billion stars in the universe, you will believe them; but if they tell you a wall has wet paint, you will have to touch it to be sure?

Boyfriend: What is your favourite music group?
Girlfriend: I love U2!
Boyfriend: I love you too, but what is your favorite music group?

How much deeper would oceans be if sponges didn't live there?

If olive oil comes from olives, where does baby oil come from?

I was arrested at the airport. Just because I was greeting my cousin Jack!
All that I said was "Hi Jack", but very loud.

What do you call a male ladybird?

When they first invented the clock, how did they know what time it was to set it to?

Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?

Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?

If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?

Hans and Stein were playing in their yard in Zurich when one of the boys accidentally swallowed a coin and started choking. Hans ran inside to get help, yelling "Mum! Dad! Come quick! There's a franc in Stein!"

2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won Ton

A Polar bear walks into an English 'fish and chip' shop and says to the person taking the order, "I'll have a Cola and ............................................................................... large fish and chips ." The order taker asks, "What's with the big pause?" The bear says, "I dunno, I've always had them."

Did you hear about the medical student who got in trouble for performing an operation?
He removed the appendix from his medical textbook.

A mushroom walks into a bar, sits down and orders a drink. The bartender says "We don't serve mushrooms here." The mushroom says, "Why not? I'm a fun guy!"

A man wanting to borrow another man's newspaper asks, "Are you finish(ed)?"
The other man replies, "No, I'm Norwegian."


119 posted on 07/14/2006 9:18:08 AM PDT by nuke rocketeer
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To: sully777
An obgyn had a burning desire to change careers and become a mechanic. So he found out from the local tech college what was involved, signed up for evening classes, attended diligently, and learned all he could.

When the time for the practical exam approached, the doctor prepared carefully for weeks, and completed the exam with tremendous skill.

When the results came back, he was surprised to find that he had obtained a mark of 150%.

Fearing an error, he called the instructor saying "I don't want to appear ungrateful for such an outstanding result but I wondered if there had been an error which needed adjusting."

The instructor said, "During the exam, you took the engine apart perfectly, which was worth 50% of the total mark. You put the engine back together again perfectly, which is also worth 50% of the mark. I gave you an extra 50% because you did all of it through the muffler."
120 posted on 07/14/2006 9:19:18 AM PDT by flutters (God Bless The USA)
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