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lumberjack_jeff

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7. Have you ever read the book "Stranger in a Strange Land"?

Reply to Doctor_J (Original post)

Sat Oct 25, 2014, 01:02 AM

Oct 2014

The protragonist, uh, wasn't from around here, so he didn't understand humor until he saw two monkeys in the zoo fighting. At that point he understood humor because it's always about someone's misfortune.

I had thought — I had been told — that a 'funny' thing is a thing of a goodness. It isn't. Not ever is it funny to the person it happens to. Like that sheriff without his pants. The goodness is in the laughing itself. I grok it is a bravery . . . and a sharing… against pain and sorrow and defeat.

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joke - funny or offensive? [View all] Doctor_J Oct 2014 OP

I'm not offended but I'm also not laughing. In_The_Wind Oct 2014 #1

Don't worry, it's funny. I laughed at it. n/t Darkhawk32 Oct 2014 #2

Amusing Renew Deal Oct 2014 #3

I've heard that one before DavidDvorkin Oct 2014 #4

I find the joke amusing in a clinical sort of way. Jenoch Oct 2014 #5

Okay, that one is funny. n/t lumberjack_jeff Oct 2014 #8

Not offensive, imo bigwillq Oct 2014 #6

Have you ever read the book "Stranger in a Strange Land"? lumberjack_jeff Oct 2014 #7

Funny. nt RiffRandell Oct 2014 #9