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>> HN does not want you to write jokes in here -- and especially one liners without any other content. But humor is insight, and brevity is the soul of wit. I
by mtdewcmu 13y ago
>> HN does not want you to write jokes in here -- and especially one liners without any other content.
But humor is insight, and brevity is the soul of wit. I saw it as commentary on the headline itself, which was ambiguous and vague. I thought it meant scientists had found an easter egg or the Enigma code hidden in DNA.
- coldtea 13y ago>But humor is insight Not really. Most of the time is just the mental analogue of fart jokes. >and brevity is the soul of wit No, that's just a cliche.
- mtdewcmu 13y ago>Not really. Most of the time is just the mental analogue of fart jokes. I didn't say all insights were equal. If this was just a fart joke, I wouldn't have thought it was funny. But you can't draw a line between insight and humor, can you? >No, that's just a cliche. It's a cliche because it's Shakespeare. That doesn't make it less true.