Anger, fear, curiousity, are all traits that make sense in terms of survival. But why do humans have a sense of humour? How does THAT help? Matt Coppola & I explore this question, with forays into Bob Newhart, Richard Pryor, & others. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-29-matt-coppola/id1746606151?i=1000687133823 #humour #comedy #senseofhumor
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Anger, fear, curiousity, are all traits that make sense in terms of survival. But why do humans have a sense of humour? How does THAT help? Matt Coppola & I explore this question, with forays into Bob Newhart, Richard Pryor, & others. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-29-matt-coppola/id1746606151?i=1000687133823 #humour #comedy #senseofhumor
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I know of one gifted crackpot who used to be employed gainfully in the fields of humor and satire, who has taken a solemn pledge not to write anything funny or lighthearted or “insignificant” again till things get straightened around in the world. This seems to me distinctly deleterious and a little silly. A literature composed of nothing but liberty-loving thoughts is little better than the propaganda which it seeks to defeat.
E. B. White (1899-1985) American author, critic, humorist [Elwyn Brooks White]
Essay (1939-01), “One Man’s Meat,” Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 178More about this quote: wist.info/white-eb/85184/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ebwhite #badtimes #earnestness #gravity #humor #propaganda #satire #senseofhumor #seriousness #war #weightiness #writing
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Psychologists have identified 4 humor styles. Knowing yours may help you find a partner.
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Psychologists have identified 4 humor styles. Knowing yours may help you find a partner.
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Friends, soulwise, these are trying times. Now is the time for all good citizens to come to the aid of our country, and it won’t help if you all cower in places like Madison and the Upper West Side, having hot fantods over the approach of fascism. To the barricades, team. And for Lord’s sake, don’t leave your sense of humor behind.
Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (2005-03), “Use It or Lose It,” The Progressive, Vol. 69, No. 3More about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/85094/
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Anger, fear, curiousity, are all traits that make sense in terms of survival. But why do humans have a sense of humour? How does THAT help? Matt Coppola & I explore this question, with forays into Bob Newhart, Richard Pryor, & others. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-29-matt-coppola/id1746606151?i=1000687133823 #humour #comedy #senseofhumor
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Robby Hoffman Thinks There Are Worse Things Than Being Offended
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Robby Hoffman Thinks There Are Worse Things Than Being Offended
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Anger, fear, curiousity, are all traits that make sense in terms of survival. But why do humans have a sense of humour? How does THAT help? Matt Coppola & I explore this question, with forays into Bob Newhart, Richard Pryor, & others. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-29-matt-coppola/id1746606151?i=1000687133823 #humour #comedy #senseofhumor
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
The gods gave people a sense of humor to make up for giving them sex.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 7, Pyramids [Ptraci] (1989)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8392…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #creation #gods #humannature #humanity #humor #senseofhumor #sex
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So let us look for beauty and grace, for love and friendship, for that which is creative and birth-giving and soul-stretching. Let us dare to laugh at ourselves, healthy, affirmative laughter. Only when we take ourselves lightly can we take ourselves seriously, so that we are given the courage to say, “Yes! I dare disturb the universe.”
Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) American writer
Speech (1983-11-16), “Dare To Be Creative,” Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DCMore about this quote: wist.info/lengle-madeleine/838…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #lengle #madeleinelengle #agency #beauty #change #courage #creativity #disturbing #gravitas #humility #humor #laughter #lightheartedness #selfactualization #selfaffirmation #selfappreciation #selfchallenging #selfesteem #selfimage #selfimportance #selfliberation #selfregard.selftrust #selfunderstanding #selfworth #senseofhumor #stretchgoals
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Anger, fear, curiousity, are all traits that make sense in terms of survival. But why do humans have a sense of humour? How does THAT help? Matt Coppola & I explore this question, with forays into Bob Newhart, Richard Pryor, & others. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-29-matt-coppola/id1746606151?i=1000687133823 #humour #comedy #senseofhumor
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‘Comedy Can’t Be Predictable’ (EXCLUSIVE)
To the outsider’s eye, Germany might not be famous for its sense of humor. But new series “The…
#Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #ArneFeldhusen #BastianReiber #Flaws #PeterSellers #senseofhumor
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ZDF Show ‘The Flaws’ Tickles Germany’s Funny Bone: ‘Comedy Can’t Be Predictable’ (EXCLUSIVE)
To the outsider’s eye, Germany might not be famous for its sense of humor. But new series “The…
#Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #ArneFeldhusen #BastianReiber #Flaws #PeterSellers #senseofhumor
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Anger, fear, curiousity, are all traits that make sense in terms of survival. But why do humans have a sense of humour? How does THAT help? Matt Coppola & I explore this question, with forays into Bob Newhart, Richard Pryor, & others. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-29-matt-coppola/id1746606151?i=1000687133823 #humour #comedy #senseofhumor
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A quotation from James Thurber
By definition, humor is gentle. The savage, the cruel, the harsh would fall under the heading of wit and/or satire, as the lawyers say. Now, my definitions are these: The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people — that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
James Thurber (1894-1961) American humorist, cartoonist, writer
Interview (1959-03-24) by Edward R. Murrow, Small World, CBS-TVMore about this quote: wist.info/thurber-james/82802/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jamesthurber #comedy #humannature #humor #humorist #mockery #satire #selfmockery #senseofhumor #verbalabuse #wit
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ADORO IL GENIO - LUOGHI COMUNI
Chi ha detto che i tedeschi non hanno #senseofhumor?
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A quotation from James Thurber
America must learn that humor, whatever form it may take, can be one of our strongest allies, but it cannot flourish in a weather of fear and hysteria and intimidation.
James Thurber (1894-1961) American cartoonist and writer
Essay (1958-12-07), “State of the Nation’s Humor: ‘On the Brink of Was,'” New York Times MagazineMore about this quote: wist.info/thurber-james/82660/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jamesthurber #comedy #fear #freespeech #freedomofexpression #freedomofspeech #funniness #humor #hysteria #intimidation #senseofhumor
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A quotation from Josh Billings
Every time a man laffs he takes a kink out ov the chain ov life, and thus lengthens it.
[Every time a man laughs he takes a kink out of the chain of life, and thus lengthens it.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1871-07 (1871 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/82540/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #goodcheer #goodhumor #goodlife #humor #laughter #lifespan #living #longlife #senseofhumor
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
But his [Shakespeare’s] laughter seems to pour from him in floods; he heaps all manner of ridiculous nicknames on the butt he is bantering, tumbles and tosses him in all sorts of horse-play; you would say, with his whole heart laughs. And then, if not always the finest, it is always a genial laughter. Not at mere weakness, at misery or poverty; never. No man who can laugh, what we call laughing, will laugh at these things. It is some poor character only desiring to laugh, and have the credit of wit, that does so. Laughter means sympathy; good laughter is not “the crackling of thorns under the pot.” Even at stupidity and pretension this Shakspeare does not laugh otherwise than genially. Dogberry and Verges tickle our very hearts; and we dismiss them covered with explosions of laughter: but we like the poor fellows only the better for our laughing; and hope they will get on well there, and continue Presidents of the City-watch. Such laughter, like sunshine on the deep sea, is very beautiful to me.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-12), “The Hero as Poet,” Home House, Portman Square, LondonMore about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/82239…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #comedy #geniality #humor #laughter #senseofhumor #Shakespeare #sympathy
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Anger, fear, curiousity, are all traits that make sense in terms of survival. But why do humans have a sense of humour? How does THAT help? Matt Coppola & I explore this question, with forays into Bob Newhart, Richard Pryor, & others. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-29-matt-coppola/id1746606151?i=1000687133823 #humour #comedy #senseofhumor
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People are losing it at this Millennial trying to teach Boomer mom about gentle parenting
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/what-is-gentle-parenting-ex1
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: Isn’t it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it’s weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity. We laugh at nonsense. We like it. We think it’s funny. Don’t you think it’s odd that we appreciate absurdity? Why would we develop that way? How does it benefit us?
HOBBES: I suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
CALVIN: (after a pause) I can’t tell if that’s funny or really scary.Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1991-03-03)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/81815…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #absurdity #evolution #existence #humancondition #humannature #humor #incomprehensibility #laughter #life #makesense #naturalselection #nonsense #reality #senseofhumor
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Anger, fear, curiousity, are all traits that make sense in terms of survival. But why do humans have a sense of humour? How does THAT help? Matt Coppola & I explore this question, with forays into Bob Newhart, Richard Pryor, & others. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-29-matt-coppola/id1746606151?i=1000687133823 #humour #comedy #senseofhumor
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Anger, fear, curiousity, are all traits that make sense in terms of survival. But why do humans have a sense of humour? How does THAT help? Matt Coppola and I explore this question, with forays into Bob Newhart, Richard Pryor, & others. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-29-matt-coppola/id1746606151?i=1000687133823 #humour #comedy #senseofhumor
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A quotation from Josh Billings
Fun is the cheapest fisick that haz bin diskovered yet, and the eazyest to take. Fun pills are sugar coated, and no change ov diet iz necessary while taking them. A little fun will sumtimes go a grate ways, i hav known men to liv to a good old age on one joke, which they managed to tell az often az once a day, and do all the laffing themselves besides that waz done.
[Fun is the cheapest physic that has been discovered yet, and the easiest to take. Fun pills are sugar coated, and no change of diet is necessary while taking them. A little fun will sometimes go a great ways; I have known men to live to a good old age on one joke, which they managed to tell as often as once a day, and do all the laughing themselves besides that was done.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1875-04 “Fun” (1875 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/80400/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #cure #fun #goodspirits #humor #jocularity #joke #medicine #repetition #senseofhumor #treatment
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A quotation from Josh Billings
But thare iz lots ov pholks who kant see enny phun in enny thing, yu couldn’t fire a joke into them with a double barrell gun, 10 paces off, they go thru life az sollum az a cow. Menny people think it iz beneath their dignity to relish a joke, sutch people are simply fools, and dont seem to kno it.
[But there are lots of folks who can’t see any fun in anything; you couldn’t fire a joke into them with a double-barrel gun, ten paces off; they go through life as solemn as a cow. May people think it is beneath their dignity to relish a joke; such people are simply fools, and don’t seem to know it.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1875-04 “Fun” (1875 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/80351/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #dignity #ego #enjoyment #fun #humor #jokes #pomposity #pride #senseofhumor
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Anger, fear, curiousity, are all traits that make sense in terms of survival. But why do humans have a sense of humour? How does THAT help? Matt Coppola and I explore this question, with forays into Bob Newhart, Richard Pryor, & others. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-29-matt-coppola/id1746606151?i=1000687133823 #humour #comedy #senseofhumor
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Anger, fear, curiousity, are all traits that make sense in terms of survival. But why do humans have a sense of humour? How does THAT help? Matt Coppola and I explore this question, with forays into Bob Newhart, Richard Pryor, & others. https://open.spotify.com/episode/7pajvL7iEqOl72899F6BHZ?si=f98684bf38cd4d01
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Yet however grim circumstances are, human beings, if they really are human, occasionally relax.
[Homines quamvis in turbidis rebus sint, tamen, si modo homines sunt, interdum animis rexantur.]Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 2, ch. 16 / sec. 39 (2.16/2.39) (44-10-24 BC) [tr. Grant (1960)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #anxiety #crisis #humannature #humanity #humor #senseofhumor #joking #jokes #problems #relaxation #stress #troubles #unwinding
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How Good Is Your #SenseofHumor?
Humor is the epitome of #cognitive flexibility—and a great #parenting tool.
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Anger, fear, curiousity, are all traits that make sense in terms of survival. But why do humans have a sense of humour? How does THAT help? Matt Coppola and I explore this question, with forays into Bob Newhart, Richard Pryor, & others. https://open.spotify.com/episode/7pajvL7iEqOl72899F6BHZ?si=f98684bf38cd4d01
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Anger, fear, curiousity, are all traits that make sense in terms of survival. But why do humans have a sense of humour? How does THAT help? Matt Coppola and I explore this question, with forays into Bob Newhart, Richard Pryor, & others.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7pajvL7iEqOl72899F6BHZ?si=f98684bf38cd4d01
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A quotation from Antrim, Minna:
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It takes not only humor, but sense, to enjoy a satirical story directed toward one’s self.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/antrim-minna/73180/#quote #quotes #quotation #humility #humor #selfassurance #selfdeprecation #senseofhumor #sensibility
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#LGBTQ-owned #shop in #GrandRapids offers ‘#good #vibes,’ a #safespace
Owner #SarahCash opened the #store to #sell her own items and to #support other #artists. She also stocks items that match her #senseofhumor, she said.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Michigan #Business #Allies #Representation #Culture
https://www.woodtv.com/news/grand-rapids/lgbtq-owned-gr-shop-offers-good-vibes-safe-space/
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The man won his wrongful #termination case after refusing to take part in #socialactivities he called "humiliating and intrusive."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/27/france-man-fired-company-drinking-culture/
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