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]]> By: The One that has Been http://www.grazingchaos.org/2005/09/14/do-you-have-a-joke-on-you/#comment-242 The One that has Been Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:49:26 +0000 http://www.grazingchaos.org/2005/09/14/do-you-have-a-joke-on-you/#comment-242 Don't you worry we were just giving him a hard time. I love words and especially playing with them. We just thought it so absurd that we harped on it for a little while. We even adopted saying it as homage to the absurdity that came out of that night. But examples are examples and they all have their purpose in explaining a point just as this one attempted to do. Don’t you worry we were just giving him a hard time. I love words and especially playing with them. We just thought it so absurd that we harped on it for a little while. We even adopted saying it as homage to the absurdity that came out of that night. But examples are examples and they all have their purpose in explaining a point just as this one attempted to do.

]]> By: Ubiquitoast Buttmunchroast http://www.grazingchaos.org/2005/09/14/do-you-have-a-joke-on-you/#comment-241 Ubiquitoast Buttmunchroast Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:31:29 +0000 http://www.grazingchaos.org/2005/09/14/do-you-have-a-joke-on-you/#comment-241 it is true: jokes are concepts, but there is something more. I do not like the metaphor of "this joke's on you", but some people do possess the ability to express the essense of the concept of the joke. Of course a concept cannot be possessed, but one can have understanding of a concept which gives him a similar power over the joke as if he possessed it. You can give it to someone by explaining it to them, and you can secure it away from everyone else by simply not telling anyone. Let your poor friend have some fun with word play. Perhaps in his mind, he can picture a joke "on" somebody and it makes sense to him. it is true: jokes are concepts, but there is something more. I do not like the metaphor of “this joke’s on you”, but some people do possess the ability to express the essense of the concept of the joke.
Of course a concept cannot be possessed, but one can have understanding of a concept which gives him a similar power over the joke as if he possessed it. You can give it to someone by explaining it to them, and you can secure it away from everyone else by simply not telling anyone.
Let your poor friend have some fun with word play. Perhaps in his mind, he can picture a joke “on” somebody and it makes sense to him.

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