Re: in group humor

From: Diane Hodges (dhodges@ceo.cudenver.edu)
Date: Sun Jan 27 2002 - 22:52:29 PST


jay writes:
>I offer this an another example of how humor functions
>inclusively/exclusively in CoPs.

ya well.
depends on the joke.

you've heard of the Italian Mafia? - they make you an offer you can't
refuse.

there is also the Heideggar Mafia: they make you an offer you can't
understand.

heh heh.

see? no one gets hurt,
we laugh.
i've told this joke before, i know, but it FITS dammit.

humour is more than we habituate.

leap to the laughs,
yuk yuk
diane

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