tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31439825.post2762779526050694752..comments2023-04-15T06:37:42.992-07:00Comments on Engage: Conversations in Philosophy: Anatomy of the Dirty JokeJoseph Oroscohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04950358209722798820noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31439825.post-44153958172718420002008-07-10T19:57:00.000-07:002008-07-10T19:57:00.000-07:00Ron: thanks for the clarification. this was holt...Ron: thanks for the clarification. this was holt's classification.Joseph Oroscohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04950358209722798820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31439825.post-15261907110523941242008-07-10T17:12:00.000-07:002008-07-10T17:12:00.000-07:00Bergson did not suggest that laughter expressed su...Bergson did not suggest that laughter expressed superiority. It either reduced content to mechanism and instinct or elevated it to humanism/moralism and intellect (of the proper kind), that is in the course of creative evolution, with or against the flow.Ron de Weijzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05135626951792092605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31439825.post-35370714258389171022008-07-09T06:52:00.000-07:002008-07-09T06:52:00.000-07:00Social norm normal. Look at W.C. Fields's joke: ...Social norm normal. Look at W.C. Fields's joke: one normally would not beat a kid with a club so the thought of doing so is absurd, and hence, funny, according to 3). Is there a different sense of normal?Joseph Oroscohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04950358209722798820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31439825.post-33172916824943945162008-07-09T00:09:00.000-07:002008-07-09T00:09:00.000-07:00"laughter registers when the normal and ordinary g...<I>"laughter registers when the normal and ordinary gives way to something absurd."</I><BR/><BR/>Like social norm-normal, or some other kind of normal?Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05685035273589091992noreply@blogger.com