| How important is a sense of humor anyway?
Posted: 7/1/2009 6:29:45 PM | Oh, a quick wit and off the wall, sometimes sarcastic and irreverent humor is much appreciated by me.
Sometimes it doesn't translate on line as intended, but bump em if they can't take a joke.
On the other hand I don't want to date Larry, Moe or Curly......
Hey, we all make "lame" ones sometimes.
A joke or remark that comes out of our mouth we wish didn't before the mouth shuts.
But when we have a real zinger it more than makes up for it. | |
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| How important is a sense of humor anyway?
Posted: 7/1/2009 6:44:05 PM | I don't like being around a man who is "on" all the time. That can be exhausting. I like a natural sense of humor where someone can laugh at me or themselves easily. I've made a LOT of UNintentional blunders (in words and actions) in my lifetime and can usually laugh it off. It's nice to be with someone who can laugh along with me because I'm pretty sure I'll be making a few more.  | |
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| How important is a sense of humor anyway?
Posted: 7/1/2009 6:56:43 PM | This is the earth. And this is Pinky. You can tell the difference quite easily. One is a lump of inert matter hurtling blindly through the void. The other... is the earth.
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The Brain: We're going to a place where the sun never sets, the size of your wallet matters, and actors and actresses slave all day.
Pinky: We're going to Denny's?
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The Brain: Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Pinky: I think so, Brain, but if they called them "sad meals" no one would buy them.
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The Brain: Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Pinky: I think so, Brain, but how are we going to make pencils that taste like bacon? Or maybe we should make bacon that tastes like pencils. Narf.
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The Brain: Are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Pinky: I think so Brain, but burlap chafes me so.
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The Brain: Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Pinky: I think so, but where will we find an open tattoo parlor at this time of night?
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The Brain: Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Pinky: I think so Brain, but... Kevin Costner with an English accent? I dunno.
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The Brain: Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Pinky: Well, I think so Brain, but balancing a family, and a career? Ooh, it's all too much for me.
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The Brain: Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Pinky: Well, I think so Brain, but isn't Regis Philbin already married?
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The Brain: Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Pinky: Well, I think so Brain, but if we didn't have ears, we'd look like weasels.
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The Brain: Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Pinky: I think so Brain, but pants with horizontal stripes make me look chubby.
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The Brain: Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Pinky: I think so Brain, but why would anyone want a depressed tounge?
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The Brain: Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Pinky: Um... I think so, Brain, but what if the chicken won't wear the nylons?
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Pinky: Egad. You astound me, Brain.
The Brain: That's a simple task, Pinky. | |
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| How important is a sense of humor anyway?
Posted: 7/1/2009 7:09:57 PM | A 50-something co-worker e-mailed me, in response to some 'humor'.. "WMP!"
"WMP?" I replied, "What's that?"
"It's like LOL," she responded, "Wet My Pants." | |
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| How important is a sense of humor anyway?
Posted: 7/1/2009 7:26:16 PM | I don't expect-- or want-- a stream of one-liners. For that, I can download Lewis Black to my MP3.
I prefer a man who recognizes the absurdities of daily life, and is able to find humor in it; who is able to laugh at himself; and who plays with words more than with his food.
Me? My high school classmates (long, long ago) voted me tops for Best AND Worst Sense of Humor.
"Since brevity is the soul of wit, I will be brief." --Shakespeare, Hamlet | |
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| How important is a sense of humor anyway?
Posted: 7/1/2009 7:40:19 PM |
I don't know if I've got it figured out yet, but I think the answer might be:
Misogynistic
Opinionated
No
Good
Officious
Oracle
Sans
Expertise
I'm positive you're mistaken. Obviously it would be something like this:
Man
Of
No
Good
Opinions
Or
Sense
Evident
Glad I could help out. | |
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| How important is a sense of humor anyway?
Posted: 7/2/2009 9:38:45 AM | qteepi: Thanks for the a.m. laughs. :-)
GeeJToon, what are you going to do tonight?
What am I going to do tonight? The same thing I do every night. (You don't want to know.)
For those of you going, "Huh?," every(?) episode of Pinky and the Brain ended like this:
Pinky: Gee, Brain, what are we going to do tonight?
Brain: The same thing we do every night, Pinky: try to take over the world! | |
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| How important is a sense of humor anyway?
Posted: 7/2/2009 11:00:27 AM | Heck, It's I who is Always Mistakenly Given to Irrelevant Nutty Nincompoopish Yammering.
She didn't have to tell me; I figure it out on me own! She is very clever for a woman, and hid it rather well. It took some Sherlocking on my part, but when I realized that since she is female, I would be better served to look for the clues in the realm of nonsense. At that point, it all came clear to me in a flash: it was backwards, much like the "logic" a woman would employ. (Still waiting on the make-up sex....can't understand why!!!)
Every
Significant
Other
Outshines
Goobberish
Numbnut
Of
Mine
Of course, it stands to reason, she got it ALL backwards. | |
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| How important is a sense of humor anyway?
Posted: 7/2/2009 11:36:04 AM | Ah, Ginny. You are wise beyond your gender.
At least she finally found a use for a newspaper besides discovering where the best sales were happening or to see what Brad and Tom's horoscope had in store for them. Actually, that is somewhat unfair. After all, I can tell from the sudden laughter that peals from the shower that she has at least read the previous day's "Family Circus."
She is not completely lacking in a sense of humour; however she does believe that one of our most recent Prime Ministers was Steve Martin.
A sense of humour is ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL in our relationship; I couldn't survive it without one.
Ginny, I haven't checked, but I would assume then that you're here for more than the forums?  | |
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| How important is a sense of humor anyway?
Posted: 7/2/2009 11:47:00 AM | .
A sense of humour is ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL.....
I couldn't survive it without one.
Along with a healthy dose of the absurd and ironic. When I'm in pain, I baffle doctors and nurses because I laugh when it hurts. When questioned, I shrug and say, "It's knee-jerk, but given an option of physical (corrction from; "emotional" Freudian Slip much?) reactions, which would you choose?"
I'm here for the forums because what I'd like to find isn't going to be easy.
So I read the forums and make online friends to talk to since I work from home and like a diversion.
 
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| How important is a sense of humor anyway?
Posted: 7/2/2009 11:50:58 AM | Aha...
I think I know who it is that has captured your senses, DBB....
You will lose the debate of why she should clean the house with this one...
But...ahem...there are other ways...
Good Luck, you two...a nice match! | |
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| How important is a sense of humor anyway?
Posted: 7/2/2009 12:07:43 PM | Fair Maiden thinks she has an answer to Rumpelstiltskin's question? But has FM woven sufficient straw into gold to warrant the answer? Must have been Fool's Straw to make Fool's Gold.
There are many fishes out in the sea. Some are Blue Dolphins. Some are Red Herrings.
Swim, swim, DP.
Enjoy the waters, but it is wise to avoid those currents too strong for you to resist.
EDIT: If your best clue was the claim that none of her posts have ever inspired a chuckle, be wary: using just that information, people might think you and I are having a long distance relationship. | |
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| How important is a sense of humor anyway?
Posted: 7/2/2009 12:44:39 PM | Never would they assume that...whyever would they?
I am frolicking in the sea...and I stick my delectable toe into a strong current to test it....can I swim through it?
Red Herrings are distracting...only for a moment... | |
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| How important is a sense of humor anyway?
Posted: 7/2/2009 1:03:11 PM | RE: Msg 41
The strongest reaction I have to reading all the postings here is to the woman who says she doesn't like The Three Stooges or Laurel and Hardy or Benny Hill. Okay, no women like the stooges and Benny, but Laurel and Hardy? It's not slapstick, though that's part of it. It's highly intelligent humor. Sometimes. How do you feel about Monty Python, which employs both high and low comedy?
Of course, I think the highest example of humor I can think of is Pinky & The Brain.
Oh my goodness... I have incurred your strongest reaction of all the posts here??? That's a lot to live up to. Let's see if I can clarify my taste in humor.
The Top Ten Least Known Things About Filly's Sense of Humor
10) Hated Benny Hill, but loved Paul Hogan. Benny came off as a pervert and a lech, where Paul came off as funny.
9) Love(d) George Carlin, Richard Prior and Bill Cosby
8) Love the Original SNL cast
7) Loved Cheech and Chong (God, I AM showing my age)
6) Loved 'Laugh-In', 'The Sonny & Cher Show', 'All In The Family', 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman' and many others of that era.
5) Like Dave Letterman but hate Conan O'Brien.
4) Loved 'Seinfeld'
3) Love 'The Big Bang Theory'
2) I loved the TV shows, 'Alf' and 'The Dinosaurs' (not the mama!)
And the number one thing you never knew about my sense of humor is:
10) I have NEVER seen 'Pinky and the Brain' (Do they have it on reruns??)
Now, OP, I have either really freaked you out or you have a much better sense of MY sense of humor. Either way, hope it was enlightening. | |
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| How important is a sense of humor anyway?
Posted: 7/2/2009 2:46:30 PM | DP1 (Oh, I do hope you don't misread that as Dippy. The eye can play such tricks on us. Look again - you'll see it's just an abbreviation of daisypetals001 )
They would have a long wait for us to have anything interesting to say if we were an item. Not for at least another 5 and a half months or so. 
More to the topic, though: I think that without humour, there cannot be love, so we should all lighten up and tell more bad jokes or at least repeat poorly those we hear others tell well. requirements filled? | |
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| How important is a sense of humor anyway?
Posted: 7/2/2009 3:42:45 PM | I think a better way of putting it, is that women do not want a partner who *lacks* a sense of humour.
I wouldn't want to be in the presence of a comedian 24/7, who is compelled to tell jokes and be funny all the time. Our laughter should be shared, natural and not contrived. | |
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| How important is a sense of humor anyway?
Posted: 7/2/2009 4:06:24 PM | Like you, I am both serious but playful. I love analyzing things, but easily see the absurdity in life. I love word play and particularly twisting song lyrics (like Credence Clearwater's famous "There's a Bathroom on the Right.")
I don't know if it's so much a "sense of humor" that's required as the ability to laugh a lot, as laughing feels good. I recommend it on a regular basis, in fact!
When my girlfriend (who I met via Fish and adore) and I first met for dinner, she was so nervous and I was so focused on trying to help her feel comfortable, she said I hardly cracked even the smallest smile. Now, we laugh all the time, at life, at ourselves, and it adds a wonderful dimension to what we do together.
So, what do you think, crowd: does sense of humor really mean laughter? | |
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| How important is a sense of humor anyway?
Posted: 7/2/2009 5:15:01 PM | ForumFilly:
I prefer Letterman too, but Conan's show has been occasionally hysterical. I also appreciate Jimmy Kimmel. As for Pinky & The Brain: shame on you!
Almost everything you named is also on my list of funny. So you are in the comedy ballpark. In the bleachers maybe, but in the ballpark.
I do remember back in the day when they showed a cartoon or two before the feature in a movie theater, if anyone laughed at a Woody Woodpecker cartoon, they were considered retarded and so many adults in America have shied away from animation (unlike other countries) but some of the funniest stuff on TV over the last 20 years has been animated.
Now any woman that I would consider dating would have to not only be a fan of my writing, but a fan of those I find funny. I was married to a woman without an appreciable sense of humor for over 20 years. She didn't laugh at my humor, but she was orgasmic. I'm not sure which one of those two qualities I find more important. Maybe I can find a woman who combines both!
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