Witzelsucht, sufferers from which show an uncontrollable tendency to pun, make bad jokes and tell meaningless stories at inappropriate moments.
At last! They've found what's wrong with me.
Did ever tell you about the time with the zombie dog and the cornetto...?
Witzelsucht sufferers have small lesions in the tissue of the frontal lobes of their brain which causes the out-of-place response. People with larger frontal lobe damage perform poorly on both verbal jokes and nonverbal cartoons in tests of humor and hardly laugh or smile in response. In some rare cases bursts of laughter may be associated with the electrical storms released in the temporal lobes of epileptics.
i have friends who NEVER get jokes, i wonder if they have this?
Maybe the jokes just aren't funny.
Like this one.
i have friends who NEVER get jokes
How I envy them! I get jokes emailed to me from my stupid cow-orkers almost daily.
I know of someone that suffers from this - as a result of a stroke. Is actually rather sad. When my step-father passed away a couple years ago, this person attended the funeral. Some rude people began joking out loud that this person might make a sudden outburst and cause a scene. Nothing happened, but I sure did feel awful for this person and his family. Nowadays, he doesn't venture outdoors much. He's become somewhat of a social recluse.
wow, sugar. that's too bad. it must be similiar to tourette's in that way.
Yeah. One of those things that seems painfully funny until you know someone that is actually dealing with it.
shame on us.
again.
we're all going to hell. see you there! that's where all the fun people will be. heh.
i have friends who NEVER get jokes, i wonder if they have this?
Maybe they're just German?
Oh, don't let me spoil the fun!
*senses kitfisto's guilt from the previous day* Is the server slow today or what?
It's too late. The fun is spoilt. Like dairy products left out overnight.
Say, shouldn't you be busy preparing yourself for that big interview tomorrow? Now pass me that curdled milk and skeedaddle!
Yeah, the server seems a bit slower than usual. And the packets seem a bit curdled. I'll have to leave a smaller tip today.
It's next week, doofus, do try and keep up.
*flicks rancid curd at smt*
*exasperated from trying to keep up*
Now, now, do you really want to go there again?
*rancid curd ricochets off protective armor and hurdles back at kitfisto*
*Is chastened by smt's stern tone*
[You know, this may be a live demonstration of the Pseudobulbar affect] Interesting, shouldn't it be effect?
Yeah, we're like the pseudobulbar display team.
*laughs uncontrollably*
*whilst forming a human pyramid on a motorbike*
I'm hungry.
Maybe someone laughing during a funeral is just thinking of something funny. At my grandmother's funeral a few months ago, the minister told friendly jokes about her - people were laughing through their tears. There is nothing that says that thinking of someone you love who is gone always brings up bad feelings.
I think Heinlein ahd it right when he wrote Marzan. After being raised by martians, the main character has difficulty understanding laughter, until he realizes that despite how it's described, laughter is generally a response to something bad. You laugh when things go wrong, it a mechanism to deal with wrongness.
It used to freak out my old boss and shipmates when we'd discover we'd have to work a 100-hour work week (again), and my response would be to burst out with laughter.
Was this on the Black Pearl, me-hearty?
AvassAlas, it was not.
Aarggh
What a wonderful ad campaign for the pill industry. Who else caught that part?
AvassAlas, it was not.