[ExI] Nature of Humor: Grinning and Laughing

[Damien Broderick]

At 06:46 PM 9/16/2008 -0700, spike wrote:

>when something is
>funny, why do we stop laughing eventually?

The joke gets old.

>  When we are sad, why do we stop
>weeping?

We get over it.

Well, all right, no, but there are doubtless hormone/transmitter 
changes that saturate or the like.

As for Lee's question: like Spike, I'm always breaking myself up. 
Just as well, so few other people get my jokes.

Damien Broderick