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I met a giant once. I didn't know what to say, so I just used big words. Did you hear about the dolphin romance? They really clicked. A horse walks into a diner.
Cognitive humor processing refers to the neural circuitry and pathways that are involved in detecting incongruities of various situations presented in a humorous manner. Over the past decade, many studies have emerged utilizing fMRI studies to describe the neural correlates associated with how a human processes something that is considered "funny".
A joke can be reused in different joke cycles; an example of this is the same Head & Shoulders joke refitted to the tragedies of Vic Morrow, Admiral Mountbatten and the crew of the Challenger space shuttle. [note 4] [47] These cycles seem to appear spontaneously, spread rapidly across countries and borders only to dissipate after some time ...
A joke dating from at least the 19th century exemplifies the sad clown paradox. The joke involves a doctor recommending his depressed patient to visit a great clown in town (in modern versions often named Pagliacci [a]), but it turns out that the patient is actually the clown out of costume. [43]
Image credits: pplazzz #2. Norm told this best: A duck walks into a pub and orders a pint of beer and a ham sandwich. The bartender looks at him and says, "Hang on!
Wife: “I want another baby.” Husband: “That’s a relief, I also really don’t like this one.” My wife and I have reached the difficult decision that we do not want children.
Freud works out condensation (for example in the contraction of words, when ‘familiär’ and ‘millionaire’ are combined to form ‘famillionär’), as a central techniques of jokes. This includes information about mixed word formation, modification, the use of identical (word) material, rearrangements, simple modifications and others.
The best corny jokes, knock-knocks, one-liners and dad jokes for kids, adults and everyone else in need of a good laugh.