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

[sully777]

NO PANTIES?! F-Yah!!!

[sully777]

There are dangers to some high-fives.

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Will someone get me down...

Anyone? Hello. Anyone...?

[rzeznikj at stout]

Cats???

[rzeznikj at stout]

Er, OK...

[rzeznikj at stout]

Sorry--I'm running a thread myself ($1's thread...)

[sully777]

[nuke rocketeer]

I wasn't too distressed, though, because Mr. Wong down on High Street has been doing my laundry for years, and I knew that he could remove just about any stain and get it out like it'd never been there.

So I took the sweater down to Wong's Laundry and dropped it off; Mr. Wong said he'd probably be able to have it cleaned by Thursday. So on Thursday afternoon after work I stopped by Wong's again.

Mr. Wong looked quite distressed when he saw me. He brought out the sweater and, apologizing profusely, explained that somehow this stain was beyond even his power to expunge.

And sure enough, though fainter than before, there was still a distinct red stain on the sweater. In an attempt to make up for his failure, Mr. Wong offered to send the sweater to his brother across town, who had been in the laundry business for an even longer time, and who might have a clue as to the method of removal of this extraordinarily persistent stain.

The elder Wong brother would rush it through at no extra charge, and should have it looking as white and clean as new by Friday. So on Friday I went back to Wong's to pick up my sweater, but when I arrived, Mr. Wong regretfully informed me that his brother, too, had failed to remove the red blotch. "No charge," said Wong, "but you must take sweater elsewhere to clean.

The Moral: ... Two Wongs cannot make a white."

[sully777]

Really cute baby. The first picture shows she has a mischievious look..like her dad maybe.

BTW thanks for everything.

[sully777]

Again, Nuke thanks for the various wardrobe malfunctions. It was a blast. But we have to maintain some decorum here at OFST

[sully777]

Wow, sorry about that...didn't know there was a singles thread and you were the go-to-guy.

[rzeznikj at stout]

It's my turn this weekend along with pcottraux...

[fredhead]

I was watching a fishing show a few weeke ago where a former Miss America and her husband were out deep sea fishing, and while fighting a big one, she popped out of her top (of course it was blurred). She was laughing about it later, atating how her husband was trying to stuff her back in while she continued to fight the fish.

[nuke rocketeer]

Decorum.....what is this decorum of which you speak?????

[IrishDad62]

Please add me to your ping list.

[sully777]

You're on the list consider yourself pinged.

[nuke rocketeer]

More wardrobe malfunctions.....

[Ditter]

I think Sandra Bernhard is a lesbian, does that change the way you feel about her?

[The_Victor]

I think Sandra Bernhard is a lesbian, does that change the way you feel about her?

I know she's a lesbian, and no, she's still strangely attractive. I think maybe it's because she always looks like she just had an orgasm.

[Ditter]

She has an ugly mouth and she looks like she is snarling when she is really smiling.

[RightCanuck]

I'm #1