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"Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process." -- EB White Nonetheless: > Is it suppose to profound
by acheron 7y ago
"Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process." -- EB White
Nonetheless:
> Is it suppose to profoundly compare pure happiness versus struggle for progress?
The idea is something like that, I suppose. Just because one wants to muck about in the water having a good time doesn't make one unintelligent. With the added humor of summing up the collected achievements of mankind as "the wheel, New York, wars, and so on". Exaggerated understatement is funny (and particularly common in British humor, though I am not British myself).
- moate 7y agoI guess as a dadaist I just find metaphorically dead frogs hilarious. Or metaphorical dissection hilarious? The point is, sometimes the joke is that the joke isn't the joke.
- cjohnson318 7y agoI did not get much out of frog dissection. There were lot of squishy bits in there, but I could have just taken someone's word for that.