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To: svcw

You wrote:

“This is funny why?”

Inversion. Humor is essentially based on cognitive and emotional paradox or on exaggeration of known truths.

To see Hitler, a despotic, mad mass murderer, rail against not being able to find a parking spot in Tel Aviv is...funny. It’s funny because it would (could) never happen, and takes a known truth (Hitler railed like the mad man he was), and applies that known truth to a silly situation.


17 posted on 02/20/2009 8:53:48 PM PST by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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To: vladimir998

Interesting thought. And way to early and pre coffee for such big words (on my part). Anyway, I find that in order for there to humor there needs to be a grain of truth, I don’t find any truth here. Maybe later but this AM.


36 posted on 02/21/2009 6:33:22 AM PST by svcw (This maybe my last transmission - God have mercy on us.)
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