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"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind." - E. B. White.
by codebje 1y ago
"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind." - E. B. White.
- Supermancho 1y agoContemporary rephrasing: "<InsertSubject> can be dissected, like a frog. It turns out that nobody is very interested and the frog dies of it."
- tmtvl 1y agoUnexplained humour dies over time. Think of the classic 'a dog walks into an inn and says "I think I'll open the other one"'.
- snackbroken 1y agoSome observational humor is timeless. Consider this entry from the same collection of Sumerian proverbs: "The dog understands 'Take it!', but it does not understand 'Put it down!'"[0] later repopularized as "No Take, Only Throw"[1]. [0] https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/proverbs/t.6.1.05.html#t6105.p81 https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/proverbs/t.6.1.05.html#t6105.p... [1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/no-take-only-throw https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/no-take-only-throw