twooffour said:
<div><span><span><span style="cursor: default; background-color: transparent;">3.</span> </span></span>
<div><span><span style="cursor: default; background-color: transparent;">an</span> <span style="cursor: default; background-color: transparent;">instance</span> <span>of</span> <span>being</span> <span>or</span> <span>attempting</span> <span>to</span> <span>be</span> <span>comical</span> <span>or</span> <span>amusing;</span> <span style="cursor: default; background-color: transparent;">something</span> </span><span><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/humorous">humorous</a><span>: </span></span> <span><span><span>The</span> <span>humor</span> <span>in</span> <span>his</span> <span>joke</span> <span>eluded</span> </span><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/the">the</a><span> <span style="cursor: default; background-color: transparent;">audience.
</span></span></span>http://www.thefreedictionary.com/humor
2. That which is intended to induce laughter or amusement</div>
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l certainly was hoping for a chuckle or two, but it just wasn't really good. Kinda pointless.That was meant to be funny??? It looks like we'll need a humour archaeologist to find the funny in that statement.
The question is, was the "funny" undetectable, or the obvious "attempt"?
Although I took this comment as a joke, so I replied with this brilliant gem:Humor = it wasn't meant seriously. If you need an archaeologist to figure out that [[i.e., that it was INTENDED as a joke, not seriously]], you might as well try to use an X-Ray to find your brain.
That's what all the smart academics call:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-humor
A "joke", still easily detectible as such, and distinguishable from something "serious", that's meant to be funny, or at least slightly amusing, by being emphasizedly bad, or leaving out the punchline, or replacing an expected punchline with something unfunny.
All ambiguities aside, a person unable to tell that from a serious statement, lacks sense of humor all the same.
Mine was a really stupid analogy that didn't work.
Anti-humour is often emphasized by a long, awkward pause, as often done in the RedLetter Media short films.
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For what it's worth, sorry for saying "humor transplant" rather than "irony transplant" or "not-serious-statement transplant". I only know of the expression "humor transplant". The others I don't know of. Or have ever heard of.
Next, please :P
