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on May 12, 2011

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Understanding 7 Different Types of Humor

One of my pet peeves is when people say they have a "dry" sense of humor, without actually understanding what it actually means. "Dry" humor is not just any old type of humor. It's not violent, not off-color, not macabre or dark. Basically, dry humor is that deadpan style of humor. It's the not-very-funny joke your uncle the cost analysis accountant tells. It's Bob Newhart , Steven Wright , or Jason Bateman in Arrested Development . It is not, for the love of GOD , people, the Black Knight scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail . I swear, if anyone says Monty Python is "dry humor" is going to get a smack. Here are some other types of comedy you may have heard and are just tossing around, willy-nilly. Farce: Exaggerated comedy. Characters in a farce get themselves in an unlikely or improbable situation that takes a lot of footwork and fast talking to get out of. The play "The Foreigner" is an example of a farce, as are many of the

Time Traveler Reveals Life in the Year 4000

Have you ever wished you could know what the future be like in 500 or even 1,000 years? Now you can, thanks to a mystery man named "John," who has traveled from the year 4000 to 2018 to tell us how much the world will change over the next 1882 years. This is according to a story in the (London) Daily Mirror, which said a "time traveller from the year 4000 reveals 'future cars,'" prompting a fierce and vigorous debate over whether it's spelled "traveler"or "traveller." John was interviewed by Apex TV for their YouTube channel, who blurred out his face and disguised his voice so he sounds like an electronic Andre the Giant. Either that, or this is how everyone looks and sounds in the future. I hate electronically distorted voices because they're sinister and creepy. The only thing worse would be if everyone in the future also looked like clowns and had snakes for hair. During the 20 minute interview, held in the back of a

I Was Attacked by a Wild Beast Last Week

I have never truly been afraid for my life until this past week when I was attacked by some sort of savage poison dart frog outside my own home. It had sharp fangs and long claws, like some kind of saber-tooth poison dart frog. Florida is home to some rather nasty critters, many of which are capable of killing a person. We have black bears in the area, and we have to keep our garbage cans locked or inside. They have even been known to attack humans on rare occasions — the bears, not the garbage cans. We have different species of venomous snakes, including coral snakes. A friend told me she once spotted a coral snake on her porch after a rainstorm. We have gators in nearly every body of water. A lake just north of my city used to be the dumping site of gators retrieved from people's pools or yards, and it's estimated there are nearly 10,000 gators in it. And I believe we have several different species of poison dart frogs, one of which attacked me last week. This is what my att

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