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On Mar 11, 9:08 pm, "Robert Cohen" <robtco...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 8, 8:33 pm, "Robert Cohen" <robtco...@xxxxxxx> wrote:





On Mar 8, 10:04 am, "Robert Cohen" <robtco...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mar 6, 4:05 pm, "Robert Cohen" <robtco...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mar 5, 6:51 pm, "Robert Cohen" <robtco...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mar 5, 12:57 pm, "Robert Cohen" <robtco...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=w070305&s=robbins030507

furthermore:

10. no showing black roots
9. a good sorority sister is  vacuous and fluffy
8. mandatory  hair and facial touch-ups prior to all home football
games
7. the basic objective: barbee
6. no dates with agriculture majors or engagements to conflicted
philosophy majors
5. if not a phoney bitche: bye-bye--hava greatttt dayyy

OOPS, the embarrassed school is DePauw University

MOOSE COUNTER-ATTACKS COPTER

in the 1960s norman mailer wrote an outrageous allegory,
WHY ARE WE IN VIETNAM?

mailer short novel had texas sport hunters killing bears from copters
in alaska

40 years later, here is a sorta epilog---a very peed moose

 http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/03/05/D8NM6H6G0.html-Hidequotedtext -

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/08/nyregion/08batmitzvah.html?hp

10. tradition..du du...tradition <fiddler on roof>
9. two compatible heritages-cultures, mandarin and yiddish
8. hey, this really is the 21st century, what's the big deal ?
7.--0. delicious combos:
flied farfel
egg rolls 'n lox
luxon koogle with orange slices <instead of raisins>
won kreploch ton soup <similar>
that really smelley barley with pork <yummy>
dry noodles & matzoh <same punishing genre>
chopped liver-suey
shrimp 'n brisket <surf 'n turf>
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new fox cable news' imaginative parody skits are acclaimed

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it is nice to see david steinberg on cbs sunay morning

a joke about grabbing testament(s) was apparently the last straw
apparently for cbs, and thus the smothers brothers were cancelled
circa 1969

today, a joke has to be.....what?....i have seen the satirical sunday
night cartoons on fox

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exactly, that's it, it like relativism and rocketry with calculus and
el nino

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By JOHN TIERNEY
Published: March 13, 2007
So there are these two muffins baking in an oven. One of them yells,
“Wow, it’s hot in here!”

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Further Reading
‘Laughing Rats and the Evolutionary Antecedents of Human joy?’ (pdf)
Jaak Panksepp and Jueff Burgdorf. Physiology & Behavior 79 (2003).
‘Laughter: A Scientific Investigation.’
Robert Provine. Viking Penguin (2000).And the other muffin replies:
“Holy cow! A talking muffin!”

Did that alleged joke make you laugh? I would guess (and hope) not.
But under different circumstances, you would be chuckling softly,
maybe giggling, possibly guffawing. I know that’s hard to believe, but
trust me. The results are just in on a laboratory test of the muffin
joke.

Laughter, a topic that stymied philosophers for 2,000 years, is
finally yielding to science. Researchers have scanned brains and
tickled babies, chimpanzees and rats. They’ve traced the evolution of
laughter back to what looks like the primal joke — or, to be precise,
the first stand-up routine to kill with an audience of primates.

It wasn’t any funnier than the muffin joke, but that’s not surprising,
at least not to the researchers. They’ve discovered something that
eluded Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Kant, Schopenhauer, Freud and the
many theorists who have tried to explain laughter based on the
mistaken premise that they’re explaining humor.

Occasionally we’re surprised into laughing at something funny, but
most laughter has little to do with humor. It’s an instinctual
survival tool for social animals, not an intellectual response to wit.
It’s not about getting the joke. It’s about getting along.

When Robert R. Provine tried applying his training in neuroscience to
laughter 20 years ago, he naïvely began by dragging people into his
laboratory at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, to watch
episodes of “Saturday Night Live” and a George Carlin routine. They
didn’t laugh much. It was what a stand-up comic would call a bad room.

So he went out into natural habitats — city sidewalks, suburban malls
— and carefully observed thousands of “laugh episodes.” He found that
80 percent to 90 percent of them came after straight lines like “I
know” or “I’ll see you guys later.” The witticisms that induced
laughter rarely rose above the level of “You smell like you had a good
workout.”

“Most prelaugh dialogue,” Professor Provine concluded in “Laughter,”
his 2000 book, “is like that of an interminable television situation
comedy scripted by an extremely ungifted writer.”

He found that most speakers, particularly women, did more laughing
than their listeners, using the laughs as punctuation for their
sentences. It’s a largely involuntary process. People can consciously
suppress laughs, but few can make themselves laugh convincingly.

“Laughter is an honest social signal because it’s hard to fake,”
Professor Provine says. “We’re dealing with something powerful,
ancient and crude. It’s a kind of behavioral fossil showing the roots
that all human beings, maybe all mammals, have in common.”

The human ha-ha evolved from the rhythmic sound — pant-pant — made by
primates like chimpanzees when they tickle and chase one other while
playing. Jaak Panksepp, a neuroscientist and psychologist at
Washington State University, discovered that rats emit an ultrasonic
chirp (inaudible to humans without special equipment) when they’re
tickled, and they like the sensation so much they keep coming back for
more tickling.

He and Professor Provine figure that the first primate joke — that is,
the first action to produce a laugh without physical contact — was the
feigned tickle, the same kind of coo-chi-coo move parents make when
they thrust their wiggling fingers at a baby. Professor Panksepp
thinks the brain has ancient wiring to produce laughter so that young
animals learn to play with one another. The laughter stimulates
euphoria circuits in the brain and also reassures the other animals
that they’re playing, not fighting.

“Primal laughter evolved as a signaling device to highlight readiness
for friendly interaction,” Professor Panksepp says. “Sophisticated
social animals such as mammals need an emotionally positive mechanism
to help create social brains and to weave organisms effectively into
the social fabric.”

Humans are laughing by the age of four months and then progress from
tickling to the Three Stooges to more sophisticated triggers for
laughter (or, in some inexplicable cases, to Jim Carrey movies).
Laughter can be used cruelly to reinforce a group’s solidarity and
pride by mocking deviants and insulting outsiders, but mainly it’s a
subtle social lubricant. It’s a way to make friends and also make
clear who belongs where in the status hierarchy.

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