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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

217.0. "It's funny isn't it? Or is it?" by APTECH::RSTONE () Tue Jul 08 1986 10:17

[I debated adding this as a reply to Note 216, but decided to create one of
 its own.]

It's funny how some people laugh at what they think is funny while other people
think it funny that things at which people laugh are not really funny at all.
In fact, funny people may be either laughed at, laughed with, or pitied...a
situation which in itself may be considered rather funny in a pitiful way.
T.RTitleUserPersonal
Name		DateLines
217.1Funny you should say that...DSSDEV::TABERCuidado -- es llamas!Tue Jul 08 1986 11:401
But what does it all mean?
217.2A multiple choice?TOPDOC::SLOANENotable notes from -bs- Tue Jul 08 1986 12:185
    re: .0
    
    OK, Roy - what do we do: laugh with you, at you, or just pity you?
            
    -bs
217.3I must have missed my mark.APTECH::RSTONEWed Jul 09 1986 09:409
    I guess it would have been better to tie this one into 216 after
    all.  The intent was to relate the two usages of the word "funny"
    to the similar situation relative to the word "anxious".
    
    I'm sure there are many more words which fit into this same category,
    and it is just one of those factors which emphasize the need for
    extra care when attempting to communicate with others.
217.4CANYON::MOELLERRoscoe L. Eggers, Jr.Tue Jul 15 1986 20:515
    Anxiety is the reason Steve Martin (& his banjo) were so funny.
    
    Laughter is the friction between 'YES' and 'NO'.
    
    karl moeller
217.5laugh more in conferences ?SIERRA::OSMANand silos to fill before I feep, and silos to fill before I feepThu Jul 17 1986 10:4810
    Actually, laughter is what is often missing from these newfangled
    electronic conferences.
    
    When I'm in a group of real people, sometimes the humor of a comment
    comes very much from the surrounding laughter.
    
    With electronic conferences, there's no one for me to hear laughter
    from, except occasionally myself.
    
    /Eric