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I have to apologize if I've ever hurt anyone's sensitive little flower feelings. I'm really trying my best to behave and not make any funny jokes that the more anal forum members won't understand and may find abhorent.

Sometimes I find something rather jocular and just have to make a run at humorism. If you don't get the tomfoolery, then I'm so sorry you grew up in a repressive atmosphere. It honestly breaks my heart you're so withdrawn, edgy, and choleric.

Hang in there, gang. You can get over it, I promise. Just muscle through it, grinding your way to a better, more relaxed and entertaining lifestyle.

Good luck and may God Bless you in all you endeavor.

Oh wait, I shouldn't use the "God" word, that may repulse some.

Hummm...

Whatever. GFY!:p

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:iagree: :iagree: :giggling:

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who are you and how did you hack into kens screen???...ken, thats so gay.....what happened to you.....man you used to be so on point with witty remarks, snappy comebacks.....what happened...

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Be more clear, please. Did I offend? People like who?

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It's about time you man up. I for one have been fed up with your reign of oppression and the constant uncertainties of whether or not my posts were going to be made a mockery of. I demand restitution of no less than $100 for every single one of my 2,418 posts on this forum and 492 from the previous forum. Good day.

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Reboot yourself, you will be fine.

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BWahahahaha!!!1!!:beerchug:

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I've been waiting for a good time to use this one.:fdance: :jump:

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BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!:jump:


What else can be done to that picture?:shhh:

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Ken, I couldn't agree more. As I drove from the airport this morning, I thought about it a bit. I think that while each individual has a distinct sense of humor and may be tickled by events that are different from those that tickle friends and family, there are universal categories of "stimuli" that trigger humorous reactions in all human beings.

Why is it that some people experience humor in a particular situation, while others do not? When two people experience the same event and react differently, that difference is based on each individual?s unique perception.

While it is clear that ?sense of humor? varies widely among individuals and groups, it is the presence of one or more of the universal characteristics of humor that make events more likely to be perceived as funny by the observer. Among the universal characteristics that may produce a humorous response are the experiences of:
? Incongruity,
? Absurdity, ludicrousness, or ridiculousness,
? An unexpected future,
? A pleasant surprise,
? Being startled,
? ?Getting it,? and
? Emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
A sense of humor can be defined as the ability to perceive one or more of the universal characteristics. Therefore, one?s sense of humor involves the capacity to appreciate incongruity, absurdity, an unexpected future, a pleasant surprise, a startle, getting it and/or emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Sorry for rambing.

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That sounds an awful lot like an excerpt I once read from Steven M. Sultanoff's, "Integrating Humor into Psychotherapy."

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That sum bitch has stolen a ton from me over the years. This is not the first time.

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No problem, buddy. Your information is always welcome here.

As Aristotle said, "Comedy is an imitation of men worse than the average; worse...[in the sense of] the ridiculous, which is a species of the ugly. The ridiculous may be defined as a mistake or deformity not productive of pain or harm to others." This view has been interpreted in a variety of ways, but on one interpretation it coheres with the assessment theory of humor presented in this book. By "Imitation" is partially meant that it is "created." He further agrees that ridicule, being open censure, is not humor. Humor is not abuse but only gives unpressured harmless innuendo. (Cooper 1922:225) The defect or ugliness must not be painful or destructive. We can now, with the assessment theory of emotion, make more sense than previously of Aristotle's theory.

Imitation is a form of pretense humor. Also, that the laughter is at those who have human faults is a type of value deviation, just as is the ugly. It deviates from our desires or from the ideal. To this view, Aristotle adds in the Tractatus Coislinianus (In Cooper 1922:225): "Comedy is an imitation of action that is ludicrous and imperfect...directly presented by persons acting, and not in the form of narrative; through pleasure and laughter effecting the purgation of the like emotions." This extends humor, or comedy, to anything which is imperfect. It is acted out in the case of comedy. And this results in catharsis or release from tension. This brings his view in line with the now rejected release, or escape views of humor. But if we laugh at others for faults in others, which we fear or will not readily admit in ourselves, then this can lead to superiority views of humor.

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After thinking about it for about 10 seconds, your view of humor and how it relates psychologically to one's reaction to humor must include the differing theories on humor and it's affect on the psyche.

Here's a few theories on humor I put togther quickly. I'm sure you don't need an explaination of each, but I'm sure others will.

1. Cognitive Theories

2. Conative Theories

3. Affective Theories

4. Instinct Theories
a. as unlearned behavior
b. as unalterable behavior
c. as hereditary behavior
d. as behavior not involving reason
e. as behavior attempting to remove tension
f. as unconscious behavior

5. Humor as Based on Emotion

6. Humor as Based on Physiology

7. Arousal Theories of Humor

8. Configuration or Gestalt Theory

9. Humor as Based on the Irrational

10. Circular Theories of Humor

11. Stimulus-Response or Learning Theories of Humor

12. Theories For or Against Humor
a. Anti-Humor
b. Pro Humor

13. Aristotle's Theories of Humor

14. Freudian Theory of Humor

15. Linguistic Theories of Humor

a. Review of Salvatore Attardo, Linguistic Theories of Humor
1. Deviation from Proper Language Humor
2. Meaningless Meaning
3. Humor Produced by Mistakes Regarding Ethical Terms
4. Metaphor-to-Myth Fallacy Humor
5. Circular Insight Humor
6. Fallacious Definitions of Humor
7. A War: Phonology vs. Phonetics?
8. Adequacy or Holism vs. "Trivial Details"

b. Review of Neal Norrick, Conversational Joking
1. The Conversation Model: Levels and Stereotypy
2. Theories of Emotion and Humor
3. Conversational Phonetics
4. Summary

16. Theories of Humor Exemplified by Type

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Apology accepted:violin:

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You know I always say.


Let us again return to the good we are seeking, and ask what it can be. It seems different in different actions and arts; it is different in medicine, in strategy, and in the other arts likewise. What then is the good of each? Surely that for whose sake everything else is done. In medicine this is health, in strategy victory, in architecture a house, in any other sphere something else, and in every action and pursuit the end; for it is for the sake of this that all men do whatever else they do. Therefore, if there is an end for all that we do, this will be the good achievable by action, and if there are more than one, these will be the goods achievable by action.
So the argument has by a different course reached the same point; but we must try to state this even more clearly. Since there are evidently more than one end, and we choose some of these (e.g. wealth, flutes, and in general instruments) for the sake of something else, clearly not all ends are final ends; but the chief good is evidently something final. Therefore, if there is only one final end, this will be what we are seeking, and if there are more than one, the most final of these will be what we are seeking. Now we call that which is in itself worthy of pursuit more final than that which is worthy of pursuit for the sake of something else, and that which is never desirable for the sake of something else more final than the things that are desirable both in themselves and for the sake of that other thing, and therefore we call final without qualification that which is always desirable in itself and never for the sake of something else. Now such a thing happiness, above all else, is held to be; for this we choose always for self and never for the sake of something else, but honour, pleasure, reason, and every virtue we choose indeed for themselves (for if nothing resulted from them we should still choose each of them), but we choose them also for the sake of happiness, judging that by means of them we shall be happy. Happiness, on the other hand, no one chooses for the sake of these, nor, in general, for anything other than itself.

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Reminds me of the arguement I was laying down
with my buddies over a few beers last night.
Basicially, I'm saying that
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy.
With a load of iron ore - 26,000 tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early
The ship was the pride of the American side
Coming back from some mill in Wisconson
As the big freighters go it was bigger than most
With a crew and the Captain well seasoned.
Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
When they left fully loaded for Cleveland
And later that night when the ships bell rang
Could it be the North Wind they'd been feeling.
The wind in the wires made a tattletale sound
And a wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the Captain did, too,
T'was the witch of November come stealing.
The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
When the gales of November came slashing
When afternoon came it was freezing rain
In the face of a hurricane West Wind
When supper time came the old cook came on deck
Saying fellows it's too rough to feed ya
At 7PM a main hatchway caved in
He said fellas it's been good to know ya.
The Captain wired in he had water coming in
And the good ship and crew was in peril
And later that night when his lights went out of sight
Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Does anyone know where the love of God goes
When the words turn the minutes to hours
The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
If they'd fifteen more miles behind her.
They might have split up or they might have capsized
They may have broke deep and took water
And all that remains is the faces and the names
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the ruins of her ice water mansion
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams,
The islands and bays are for sportsmen.
And farther below Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the gales of November remembered.
In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed
In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral
The church bell chimed, 'til it rang 29 times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
Superior, they say, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early.

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Well you have to remember even as we argue, we are all
Islands in the stream
That is what we are
No one in-between
How can we be wrong
Sail away with me to another world
And we rely on each other, ah-ah
From one lover to another, ah-ah

I can't live without you if the love was gone
Everything is nothin' if you got no one
And you did walk in tonight
Slowly loosen' sight of the real thing

But that won't happen to us and we got no doubt
Too deep in love and we got no way out
And the message is clear
This could be the year for the real thing

No more will you cry
Baby, I will hurt you never
We start and end as one, in love forever
We can ride it together, ah-ah
Makin' love with each other, ah-ah

Islands in the stream
That is what we are
No one in-between
How can we be wrong
Sail away with me to another world
And we rely on each other, ah-ah
From one lover to another, ah-ah

Sail away
Oh, come sail away with me

Islands in the stream
That is what we are
No one in-between
How can we be wrong
Sail away with me to another world
And we rely on each other, ah-ah
From one lover to another, ah-ah

Islands in the stream
That is what we are
No one in-between
How can we be wrong
Sail away with me to another world
And we rely on each other, ah-ah
From one lover to another, ah-ah

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You be Parton and I'll be Rogers when we get together for Karoake.:clapping:

I'd make a perfect Kenny Rogers. Have you seen his last facelift? He a chinkyman.:giggling:

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This is a good thread. I love lyrics. The Gordon Lightfoot sh|t really got me rolling on the floor.