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12-02-2014, 01:04 AM | #1 (permalink) | |
carpe musicam
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Humor
Comedy, humour, trolling, derision what is the difference between them?
What kind of humour do you identify with?
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"it counts in our hearts" ?ºº? “I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.” Jack Kerouac. “If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.” Aristotle. "If you tried to give Rock and Roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'." John Lennon "I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous." Keith Richards |
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12-02-2014, 04:14 AM | #3 (permalink) | |
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Your ****ing mother, bitch. And you better be from England, spelling "humor" with two "u"s like some nancy boy.
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12-02-2014, 10:27 AM | #5 (permalink) |
moon lake inc.
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I like a lot of social commentary mixed with comedy, Bill Hicks, George Carlin, etc.
Also cynicism and dry humor gets me as well Bo Burnhan, Steve Wright, Dimitri Martin, etc. And a good troll can get me laughing too. |
12-02-2014, 01:16 PM | #7 (permalink) | ||
carpe musicam
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Whenever I watch old comedies, I noticed a lot of those routines if they done on the internet would be considered "trolling." I don't know if the medium changes how humour is perceived, or people have become less tolerant of what once was funny.
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In HS, we played different sports for gym. I was sorta excited when it came time for us to play baseball. Growing up I played baseball in the streets and empty parking lots as a kid. So I was a little jazzed about it actually playing baseball on a real field. We faced the team pitcher, he was a natural choice for the phys-ed coach. I remember one time I was struggling at bat and someone decided to count how many times I fouled off the ball. It was somewhere around count #7 that I started to feel tremendous peer pressure to hit the ball foul. I even stepped of the batter's box a few times just to hit junk balls foul. They were running bets on the sideline. Eventually I pop out to shortstop, and I remember that being a real disappointment for a few of the guys. I realized I shouldn't had succumbed to peer pressure taken a walk. My friend was like "don't worry about it you didn't strike out like some of the guys on the baseball team."
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"it counts in our hearts" ?ºº? “I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.” Jack Kerouac. “If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.” Aristotle. "If you tried to give Rock and Roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'." John Lennon "I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous." Keith Richards |
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12-02-2014, 01:33 PM | #8 (permalink) |
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I've never been a fan of baseball. I got hit in the head with a ball thrown while sliding into home plate once while playing on a Tee Ball league, then my Mom made me quit the team. That team went on to win the championship that year.
Why does that sound like a Jack Handy story?
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12-02-2014, 01:56 PM | #9 (permalink) |
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Playing baseball is one thing. Umpiring baseball is a different beast altogether.
I used to umpire little elementary school kids (the youngest even played t-ball). For the most part, everyone was just there to have fun and the coaches/parents understood that. Every once in a while some ****wad would take it entirely too seriously and freak out on me. One time, the ball landed right behind the first baseman and he couldn't for the life of him find it. He was getting really embarrassed. They got 2 runs on him with a third coming up shortly...there was no chance they weren't getting that third run so I just told the kid to look behind him. The coach flipped a **** on me, saying that's cheating blah blah...it got so bad I had to threaten to kick him off the field. Then I moved on to eighth graders where there was a real chance some of those kids could play varsity the next year. Oh man, that's when I stopped umpiring.
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12-02-2014, 01:59 PM | #10 (permalink) |
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I like humor that is funny.
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