Why Do We Laugh?

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

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

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

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

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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.

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.

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

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.

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"

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]