[xm177e2]

"Males use humour to appear superior to others, whilst women are more linguistically skilled and prefer word-puns."

"women are more linguistically skilled"--maybe on average, but on average, men are more mathematically skilled. It's hard to imagine the SMH, or any other major newspaper, publishing that fact!

Anyway, I'm "linguistically skilled," I get most of the female jokes--they're just not funny.

What so damn funny about words? I don't know. Go ask that nihilist jerk George Carlin...

[NatureGirl]

What do you call a woman who can balance four pints of beer on her head? - Beatrix.

I don't get it.

[2Trievers]

"The only good thing to come out of religion was the music." George Carlin

George a nihilist? Is that why he's so funny? &;-)

[nomad]

How about the Gynecologist who went deaf, you know he had to learn to read lips.

[piasa]

I'm female and I didn't think their 'female jokes' were funny either. I got the impression that most of the women they queried were probably British, judging by the jokes selected. They also didn't seem to bolster the theory of linguistic superiority, BTW. They were lame.

The author implied men favored jokes which put down women, but then cited the top jokes among men- none of which put down women, BTW. Nor were they particularly 'aggressive.'

[Space Wrangler]

How did Helen Keller burn here ear?

She answered the iron!

How did she burn the other one?

It rang again.

Did you hear about Helen Keller falling into a well? She nearly screamed her arms off!

Tasteless, I know, but these were the jokes that got me the best way back in the jr. high days!