Date: 08 Nov 2000 19:14:31 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in (Rahul Siddharthan), jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan Hubbard), bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fortune candidate from #FreeBSD on EFNet Message-ID: <xzp1ywms54o.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of "Wed, 8 Nov 2000 17:35:11 %2B0000 (GMT)" References: <200011081735.KAA19984@usr08.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> writes: > FWIW: "The Far Side" humor works the same way. Some people just > don't get "The Far Side". I've become convinced that, at least > for the majority of these people, it's because they read the > caption before looking at the picture, and forming their own > opinion of what's going on. Without this step, there is no set > up for cognitive dissonance, and it merely becomes "yeah, that's > a picture of what the caption was describing", rather than "wow, > that's a totally bizarre interpretation of the picture, which I > was not expecting!". Expect that Far Side jokes are quite often the exact opposite of what you claim - unusual and humoristic interpretations of a common phrase. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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