Why Do We Laugh?

Originally posted by Suzianne
You know what they say happens when you assume.

Do you mean on the Interwebz?

Like when you assume they are female, but actually they are male?

Originally posted by Very Rusty
Always seek those you know in person for advice, not a bunch of nerds on a chess site. 😉

Translation: I don't have a freaking clue, GB.

Originally posted by Very Rusty
Do you mean on the Interwebz?

Like when you assume they are female, but actually they are male?

No. More like when you're too stupid to realize they are female and you show what a complete eunuch you are by insisting she's male.

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I was at a funeral service down in a very rural part of Ireland.
This old woman came into the church on two walking sticks
moving very slowly and with great difficulty.

I turned to the young girl in the seat beside me and I pretended to extend
my leg to trip up the old woman.

The young girl just burst into fits of laughter and she could not stop.

All the people kept looking at her and I claimed innocence.

Originally posted by johnnylongwoody
I was at a funeral service down in a very rural part of Ireland.
This old woman came into the church on two walking sticks
moving very slowly and with great difficulty.

I turned to the young girl in the seat beside me and I pretended to extend
my leg to trip up the old woman.

The young girl just burst into fits of laughter and she could not stop.

All the people kept looking at her and I claimed innocence.

Years ago I was at an evening Xmas service in a ski village North of Montreal with my then girlfriend. It was a tiny liitle church without electricity (it had a pump organ and was candlelit) and maybe room for 50 people. The minister was pouring the wine, with some "flash", into the chalice and my girlfriend started giggling, quietly at first but it soon went up the scale at which point she ran out the church. I followed finding her on the steps bent over from the pain of her laughter. She said that the sound reminded her of someone peeing in a bedpan. We left.

Originally posted by Great Big Stees

Years ago I was at an evening Xmas service in a ski village North of Montreal with my then girlfriend. It was a tiny liitle church without electricity (it had a pump organ and was candlelit) and maybe room for 50 people. The minister was pouring the wine, with some "flash", into the chalice and my girlfriend started giggling, quietly at first but i ...[text shortened]... of her laughter. She said that the sound reminded her of someone peeing in a bedpan. We left.

Next time, maybe invest in a catheter.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Next time, maybe invest in a catheter.

A suggestion I shall convey to the present minister should I ever return to that church (assuming it's still an active one). It was about 47 years ago and if memory serves me well the minister, at the time, appeared to be well into his 80s.

Schopehauer say, that we laugh, when "die Objektivation des Willens und die Objektivation der Wirklichkeit unangemessen weit von Kongruenz sind".

For us all: if something happens that we don't expect (as in being sure it happens).

So if the pouring of wine sudenly sounds like asomeone taking a piss...you wouldn't expect to hear that at church.

I know a good German joke playing on this. Maybe Johnnylongwoody will find a similar one in English:

Ein Ehepaar geht mit der Tochter und deren Freund spazieren. Nach einiger Zeit bemerken die beiden, dass die letzteren nicht mehr zu sehen sind. Da fragt die Frau: "Was machen die denn?"
Antwortet der Mann: "Nachkommen"

Originally posted by Ponderable


So if the pouring of wine sudenly sounds like asomeone taking a piss...you wouldn't expect to hear that at church.

I disagree. Ministers/Priests/Rabbis/Mullahs/Etc are, when all is said and done, human and as humans need to relieve themselves and I had to agree with my girlfriend...it did indeed sound like someone urinating into a bedpan.

Ministers/Priests/Rabbis/Mullahs/Etc are, when all is said and done, human and as humans need to relieve themselves.
And that's why the Catholic church is usually in the news for the wrong reasons.

Originally posted by Ponderable
Ein Ehepaar geht mit der Tochter und deren Freund spazieren. Nach einiger Zeit bemerken die beiden, dass die letzteren nicht mehr zu sehen sind. Da fragt die Frau: "Was machen die denn?"
Antwortet der Mann: "Nachkommen"

Hehehe, this is a good joke, but very German.

It doesn't translate well to English, though.

The joke turns on the English phrase "What are they doing?" in German directly translates to "What are they making?"

The joke is funny in German, but makes little sense in English with a direct translation, since we don't say "What are they making?" but "What are they doing?"

People who talk with themselves and/or laugh when alone sometimes get well, I think.

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Originally posted by leestatic
[b]Ministers/Priests/Rabbis/Mullahs/Etc are, when all is said and done, human and as humans need to relieve themselves.
And that's why the Catholic church is usually in the news for the wrong reasons.[/b]

Never could understand the notion of celibacy, especially as a condition of "employment". Some can most can't.