
Yes, geese. You only need 15 seconds for this one, though you’ll probably replay it.
This might not strike your funny bone the way it hit at our house, but if you laughed, then this little scene dispels the oft-quoted humor theory of surprise. (That would be me to young son, claiming that things are never funny the second time, the fifth, the twenty-third.) Well, some things are way funnier multiplied by sixty-five. I’m sure humor scholar Don Nilsen has an explanation for this.
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Don replied by e-mail:
Gwyn:
I’m totally impressed.
There is a humor principle involved: “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.”
Thanks for the citation.
Don L. F. Nilsen
HISTORIAN: INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HUMOR STUDIES
http://www.uni-duesseldorf.de/WWW/MathNat/Ruch/SecretaryPage.html <http://www.uni-duesseldorf.de/WWW/MathNat/Ruch/SecretaryPage.html
Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University
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