"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.

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tmtvl a day ago | parent | next [-]

Unexplained 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 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Some 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.p... [1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/no-take-only-throw

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Supermancho a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Contemporary rephrasing: "<InsertSubject> can be dissected, like a frog. It turns out that nobody is very interested and the frog dies of it."