Who’s Satan? You know who! Stop playing coy…fish.

Orlando FL

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It takes intelligence to have a sense of humor. And I don’t mean potty humor which you trumpeters understand. “ The incongruity theory of humor suggests that we find fundamentally incompatible concepts or unexpected resolutions funny. Basically, we find humor in the incongruity between our expectations and reality. Resolving incongruity can contribute to the perception of humor as well. This concept is known as as the “incongruity-resolution” theory, and primarily refers to written jokes. When identifying what makes a humorous situation funny, this theory can be applied broadly; it can account for the laughs found in many different juxtaposed concepts.” Another slant… “ One general theory, put forth by a decidedly non-zany murderers’ row of Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Descartes, and Baudelaire, holds that we are amused when we are made to feel superior to others. Freud, for his part, suggested that forbidden things are hilarious (because humor is a pressure valve for repressive psychic energy). Yet another approach, pioneered by Kant and Schopenhauer and affirmed by Henny Youngman, sees humor as arising from incongruity: When conventions are undermined by an absurd situation, we’re tickled.” If you don’t have the mental horsepower to do comparisons and abstracts then your appreciation of humor is lacking. If you didn’t understand any part of the above then “you’re in the boat”. (And if you don’t know the above names or theories by having read any of their works, then…There’s your sign!) Stupid is not the new smart, it’s only you trumpeters that think so.