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Official Friday Silliness Thread's Salute to Sex and Laughter
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| 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
TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Education; Health/Medicine; Humor; Music/Entertainment; Reference; Science; Society; UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bastilleday; cheese; comicsex; humor; moose; punmania; punsandpunsoffun; sexyhumor; sister
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To: sully777
Official Friday Silliness Thread's Salute to Sex and Laughter And this is different from every other OFST ... how?*
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posted on
07/14/2006 4:29:03 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(*Rhetorical question)
To: sully777; All
Racy! Racy! R A C Y !
Comment #23 Removed by Moderator
To: L.N. Smithee
"It all comes down to this: There is only one purely natural thing the human body likes better than laughter."And it's great when you can combine the two!
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posted on
07/14/2006 4:51:08 AM PDT
by
VRWCtaz
(Conservatism is about promoting opportunity and Liberalism is about controlling outcome.)
To: Chanticleer
I agree...Humor is important.
Now, if I could just find a man that's funny, has a job, goes to church, is responsible, caring, sensitive...
Ackk... Sorry, I was dreaming again. ;o)
MM
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posted on
07/14/2006 4:57:22 AM PDT
by
motormouth
(Whatever you are, be a good one.)
To: sully777
Sheeesh! you crank this off early!!!
To: Fla road trip
Do puns count????
My aunt's beloved cat Ginger had grown seriously overweight, so she decided to take him to the vet to find out if there was anything wrong with him - and more to the point, whether anything could be done about it.
So she put him into the kitty-carry box, and drove to the surgery.
The doc prescribed a course of pills, and my aunt left, happy in the knowledge that Ginger would soon be his slim old self again.
But after a few weeks of taking the pills, there was no change: Ginger was as fat as ever. Soon months had gone by, and still there was no difference. In fact, if anything, it was getting worse.
The other problem was the invoices from the vet - these pills were costing a fortune.
It soon became clear to us all that Ginger had become a doc-billed fatty-puss.
To: Izzy Dunne
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posted on
07/14/2006 5:22:53 AM PDT
by
Bella_Bru
(http://folding.stanford.edu/ - - - -Folding@home. Free Republic team 36120)
To: sully777
West Va Hot date
To: sully777
To: martin_fierro
Racy!
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posted on
07/14/2006 5:26:52 AM PDT
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: The_Victor
More racy stuff...makin' easter eggs
To: sully777
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posted on
07/14/2006 5:29:54 AM PDT
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: sully777
OK, What do you call a large group of armed lesbians?
Militia Ethridge
To: nuke rocketeer
The ball is in the AIR!
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posted on
07/14/2006 5:33:15 AM PDT
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: sully777
It's Bastille Day...the day the French celebrate their surrender...to other French!
Present!
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posted on
07/14/2006 5:35:52 AM PDT
by
JRios1968
(There's 3 kinds of people in this world...those who know math and those who don't.)
To: The_Victor
Lance Armstrong's replacement in training!!!
To: nuke rocketeer
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posted on
07/14/2006 5:48:52 AM PDT
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: nuke rocketeer
Do puns count???? Most definitely, Nuke. You make me weak in the knees with your shaggy dog stories! :-p
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posted on
07/14/2006 5:52:26 AM PDT
by
Chanticleer
(Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point. Lewis)
To: sully777
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07/14/2006 5:52:46 AM PDT
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Rummyfan
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