It has been said that “Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. ![]() Nonetheless, jokes are common in our lives and many of us wonder how we could live without them I cannot imagine being serious all the time. Anyway, what is the value of analyzing jokes? Probably not much, unless you are or intend to be a comedian. According to a dictionary, a joke is something said or done to provoke laughter or to cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, a prankish act, or something that is ridiculous, particularly because it is inadequate (I will get to administrators later on). The Talmud says that “A man will have to give account on the Judgment Day for every good thing which he might have enjoyed and did not.” I sense that this is correct. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.” That’s the way I feel also. ![]() White: “Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Writers, meanwhile, look ridiculous, trying to defend the indefensible.Į.B. Meanwhile, the editor, having professional but no personal investment in the writing has to listen to complaints from people who have taken offense, rather than just repairing the damage they created. If you publish enough, you have your own stories to tell. There probably has never been an author, reader, publisher, or owner of a periodical or publishing house who did not, at one time or another, disapprove, disparage, complain about, or criticize an editor. The writer looks up, appalled, to see that the editor is standing over him and urinating into the water. They sink to their knees, by now quite close to death, when suddenly – an oasis, no mirage! Editor and writer crawl toward the water, hand over hand, and finally immerse their faces in the cool desert pond. Winds howling, sun beating down, mirages appear. At 30, hardened in crime, you became an editor” ( 1).Ī joke ( 2) goes something like this: An editor and a writer go to the Middle East and become lost in the desert sands. The American humorist Mark Twain said, “Yours was not, in the beginning, a criminal nature, but circumstances changed it. Understanding humor (not a useful undertaking)
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