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« Last post by IainB on February 27, 2017, 03:49 PM »Thread's title: "silly humor". But morbidity is not humour! As silly as it may be, to be morbid, it is not humour - not even silly humor.Yes, well, the full title of this thread seems to be: Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
____________________-Curt (February 27, 2017, 08:22 AM)
It is thus a catch-all for humour, and where "Re:" means:
re1 /ri;, reI/
· prep.
1 in the matter of (used in headings or to introduce a reference).
2 about; concerning.
– ORIGIN L., ablative of res ‘thing’.
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Concise Oxford Dictionary (10th Ed.)
So, it would seem to be generally all about humour.
Maybe I haven't been around here long enough, but I don't recall having read/seen much - if any - morbid humour on this discussion board, though I must admit that I was unaware that morbid humour per se (if there is any) was to be deemed by officialdom as verboten and categorically being non-humourous, for whatever reason. Presumably something might appeal to one person's sense of humour but not to another's, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it is thus ipso facto not humorous by definition. On the contrary, one often sees jokes in this thread that one may garner little amusement from, but one is pleased that they were put there, nonetheless, as they offer a risk opportunity that they might be found to be funny.
Just like black humour, jokes about death would presumably surely have a place in any culture as a response to adversity and to act as a very healthy coping response to adversity, as I described in a comment above.
Thus there are quite a lot of jokes that would fall into the category of black humour or "undertaker jokes" - and some of them, though being about death or imminent death are not necessarily morbid per se and make various subtle social comments, often containing some irony, and can be quite cleverly amusing, as in these 2 examples:
- Firing squad.
Two Jewish concentration camp prisoners were about to be shot by a Nazi firing squad.
They were marched to the execution site, told to face the soldiers in the firing squad, and blindfolded.
As soon as the prisoners had been blindfolded, one of them turned around in protest so as to face away from the firing squad.
The Nazi squad captain screamed at him to turn around and face the squad, but the prisoner did not move.
The other blindfolded prisoner said "Moshe, what is it hat you are doing that the captain is screaming at you?"
Moshe replied, "I'm making a protest and facing away from the firing squad".
The other prisoner said "Moshe, you don't have to do that. Don't make them angry." - Lunchbox suicide.
An Irishman, a Mexican and a blonde Englishman were doing construction work on scaffolding on the 20th floor of a building.
They had sat down to eat lunch, and were opening their lunchboxes when the Irishman said, "Corned beef and cabbage! If Oi get corned beef and cabbage one more time for me lunch, den Oi'm going to jump off dis building!"
The Mexican opened his lunch box and exclaimed,"Burritos again! If I get zese burritos one more time I'm a gonna jump off too!"
The blonde opened his lunch and said, "Bologna again! If I get a bologna sandwich one more time, I'm jumping too!"'
The next day, the Irishman opened his lunchbox, saw corned beef and cabbage, and jumped to his death.
The Mexican opened his lunchbox, saw a burrito, and jumped, too.
The blonde guy opened his lunchbox, saw the bologna and jumped to his death as well.
At their triple funeral, the Irishman's widow was weeping. She said, "Oh, if only I'd known how really tired he was of corned beef and cabbage, I never would have given it to him again!"
The Mexican's widow also wept, and said, "I could have given him tacos or enchiladas! I didn't realize he hated burritos so much."
The two wives looked expectantly at the weeping blonde guy's widow. She dabbed her eyes with a tissue and said, "I just can't understand it. He always made his own lunch."
By the way, I usually find this definition quite handy: (my emphasis)
morbid
· adj.
1 characterized by or appealing to an abnormal and unhealthy interest in unpleasant subjects, especially death and disease.
2 Medicine of the nature of or indicative of disease.
– DERIVATIVES morbidity n. morbidly adv. morbidness n.
– ORIGIN C17: from L. morbidus, from morbus ‘disease’.
Concise Oxford Dictionary (10th Ed.)
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