[CrackMonkey] Locating the funny bone.

[Paul J Collins]

>>>>> "Nick" == Nick Moffitt <nick at zork.net> writes:

    Nick> From: "Buzzwords", by May Berenbaum, p. 252.

    Nick> [...] one joke, a man asks his neighbor if he'll be mowing
    Nick> the lawn on Saturday; the neighbor answers "yes," and what
    Nick> was generally regarded as the clever punch line was for the
    Nick> first man to respond, "Well, I guess you won't be needing
    Nick> your golf clubs."

Obviously something has been elided from my medical records.  How the
*hell* is that funny?

    Nick> Patients who had sustained damage to the right frontal lobe
    Nick> preferred the outcome in which, after the neighbor responds,
    Nick> "yes," the first man steps on a rake.

That's funnier than the goddamn so-called "funny" punchline.

One joke I love: A skeleton walks into a bar.  The barman looks up and
says, ``What can I get you?''  ``A pint of beer and a mop, please.''

Better again: A horse walks into a bar and goes up to the barman, who
is polishing a glass slowly and deliberately.  The barman looks up and
notices the horse.  ``Hey,'' he says, ``why the long face?''

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