You must not attend high school.<div><br></div><div>I, on the other hand, do; how anyone could <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">not</span> understand this joke (or why anyone would analyze it for semantic meaning rather than the obvious implied humor) escapes me.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:38 PM, hkhenson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hkhenson@rogers.com">hkhenson@rogers.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">At 11:10 AM 4/28/2009, you wrote:<br>
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On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Lee Corbin <<a href="mailto:lcorbin@rawbw.com" target="_blank">lcorbin@rawbw.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Any analogs to this phenomenon occur to you,<br>
> or emergent new generalities, or other examples?<br>
><br>
<br>
'Man walks into a bar...<br>
<br>
... says "ouch."<br>
<br>
<br>
We find humor in the unexpected outcome that (in retrospect) could<br>
have been obvious. What I find interesting is that we generally like<br>
this kind of deception while we dislike many others.<br>
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Minsky has a lot to say about humor. I don't know exactly how he would classify this one, perhaps an "out of context" joke.<br>
<br>
Lee, you might send this one to Marvin Minsky <<a href="mailto:minsky@media.mit.edu" target="_blank">minsky@media.mit.edu</a>> and see what he says about it.<br>
<br>
Keith <br><div><div></div><div class="h5">
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