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Anecdotes, Ultrahumour

Lessons
To enable good crops to grow is a facet of wisdom and smartness hand in hand.
GOOD points help learning. Anecdotes may be the richest sources of good points around. Often learning helps cultured ways and deals (such dao). Besides, anecdotes fairly often suggest certain cultural accomplishments in themselves (per se).

Anecdotes: Warming up
Costly anecdotes
You may muster fun through anecdotes

Supporting "well medleys" are presupposed throughout:

Anecdotes: Warming up

- they are brief narratives

Anecdotes defined

AN ANECDOTE usually is a short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident, Merriam-Webster says.
The content of the anecdote - it is a popular and versatile literary genre - may be related to the local culture. Heinz Grothe discerns between gossip anecdotes, anecdotes of social differences, historical anecdotes, anecdotes of being fellows, and wandering anecdotes. And through anecdotal stories, country people remember funny incidents and persons, village originals, remarkable occurrences, buildings and things, says Ann Helene Skjelbred (Hlv 39, 40, 41, 176).
Good points may be built into tales about comical incidents, and maybe elaborated on top of that. Also, a certain grasp of what it is that basically makes situations humorous, can assist in making embarrassing incidents, social and other blunders, and faux pas rather entertaining in time (Hlv 49, 55, 56ff).
The anecdote is also understood as a story that tells something unusual about a persons or persons, a happening, or a thing. It may quote a quick-witted remark or portray an unusual happening, writes Birgit H. Johnsen. Yet it will be a product of a racounteur or author that people laugh at in such and most other cases of planned humour, quite as the Finnish Olli Alho observes (see Hlv 1997, 39, 48).
In such ways as are shown here and still more ways the anecdote may be a little piece of human experience transformed into art, as Heinz Grothe notes in Anekdote (1971, p. 5ff) (see Hlv 1997, 39).

Ulysses was shown it

Plato tells of how spirits of the other world came back to find bodies and places to work. One took the body of a poet and did his work. Finally, Ulysses came and said, "All the fine bodies have been taken and all the grand work done. There is nothing for me."
"Mind," said a voice, "the best has been left for you - the body of a common man, doing a common work for a common reward." [see Of]

THAT'S an anecdote. Anecdotes are pointed tales. Some can be barbed, others may seem more lenient. Some may seem fantastic, others endorse some form of moral. These things differ, as anecdotes differ greatly. They very often have great entertainment value, apart from their often biographical hints, and should help learning greatly. They say Abraham Lincoln used them constantly. That's pretty often.

What we do

We host many sorts of anecdotes.
Some soft-looking, others bold,
some pertinent, and some quant,
some modern and some adequate.

These things can be blended.
Some are like an a propos.
Others suggest.
They often suggest adaptations out of hand,
or alternative ways of seeing this and that.
Besides, there is much more to them. Have a look below.

A Bramble Tale is a new sort of anecdote

EACH "bramble tale" [follow up here] is a tall anecdote, basically. Bramble stories (such studies) are marked off by a bramble image or such an icon. Try clicking on it to learn more from that niche in the much encompassing art of anecdotal wit and gist-formations. You might even get a welcome surprise. [Click]
The word anecdote comes through French from the Greek anekdota, which means "unpublished items". Usually it means some short narrative of such as an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident, suggest Encyclopedia Britannica Online. In addition or on top of that the anecdote can be:

Interesting, amusing,
Often quite tactless and biographical - in part like a close-up picture.
Fairly odd or halfway so.
Like a sketch also.
Deals with intimate matters.
Different from articles.
It can be terse, and brutal with insiders.

Hasidic anecdotes

THE "MIRACLE-WORKING rabbi" inside Hasidism delivers his teaching in the form of homily interpretations. He takes to fables and parables lifted up from and daily life - this method remains inside the movement. It was started by one Israel ben Eliezer, also called Ba'al Shem Tov - at least he's in the foreground as its founder. As it progressed, the movement adjusted its strict, rigorous observance of ritual rules. It's held that it's basis and structure could have led Judaism to its ruin -
Dr. Martin Buber says the tale and anecdote are the most authentic expression of the doctrine and the spirituality of Hasidism. Yet it's in doctrine-aiding sermons that Hasidic "rabbis" express their thought, which can be very diversified.

THE HASIDIC pietistic-mystical movement rose inside Jewish religion in eastern Europe at the end of the 1700s and begat a host of legend-like anecdotes centred in the lives, wise sayings, and miracles of such zaddiks ("prophets" inside Jewisch mysticism) as Dov Baer of Meseritz (dead 1772). Rather than being formally strict, severe and topic-structured stories these are costly due to wit - in other words anecdotes. And they're often borrowed from non-Jewish sources.

Modern anecdote

There was a quiet and beautiful garden on the bank of the Rio Grande River. Many wild flowers of different kinds and colours lived right there. They were all happy except Violet. She was always complaining about how "short and ugly" she felt, even though she was halfway blind, just like a proverbial owl at day.
While she stood there and pitied herself for no good reason at all, Rose suddenly rose above her and loomed tall. Violet turned to her blossoming Freundin and sighed: "How unlucky. Why didn't I become me tall and good-looking at once, like you?"
Rose replied. "I for my part think you're cute, little sister."
"You're only saying that because now you're more attractive than I am in the eyes of boys and men," answered Violet unconvincingly.
At that moment a mother heard the two of them and got mightily surprised. She asked Violet: "What, sweet little one? Is there a problem?"
Violet had her plan: "Dear old mom, you can make me tall and strong, I know you did it to my Freundin."
"What do you say?" said the old hag to her. "You're still too young for all that, in my opinion. If I did it to you right now you'd probably live to regret it a lot. Not even I could hope to assist you then."
Violet wouldn't listen: "No, I want you to change me to a tall rose, responsible for her future. Change my name."
"Well, Violet, if you face difficulties and disasters for getting big and strong, you have to blame yourself."
Now her mom touched her breasts with black magic fingers and said:
"Be Rose, soon grown into the tallest and most beautiful flower."
Rose was very glad of that change and told Daisy about her new feelings. She smiled endearingly to the whistle of the admiring birds.
That afternoon a man came to the garden to take a rest, attracted by the delicate beauty and lovely smell of Rose. First he sat down on the lawn, enjoying Rose's smell. Nay, he also went up to her and cut her long, graceful neck without over-much consideration for her. Not at all. A few moments later, when he had sniffed her beautiful fragrance as some men do, he threw her away and thought he had done a fit thing.
They most often do, don't they?

1. When you interpret a good anecdote, maybe you do something much similar. 2. Stay carefully guarded. After all, this rose got her graceful neck broken as a result of her beauty - or feigning. A "lesson" depends on what way you look at this and that too.

Anecdote from "Functional philosophies"

The light at the end of the tunnel could be the headlight of an approaching train.

Something rather close to that one is presented as anecdotal wit in New Zealand. [Check] You see modern anecdotes can be pointed in more than one way and that there often is room for improvement. In the next story the fine point is nearly ideal, eh?

Drifting along and caring little: A business anecdote

AN ANT once climbed a big tree and got out on a branch that suddenly broke off and fell into a torrential stream. The little ant perched on top of the branch as it drifted towards the falls. All the time the little ant was grinning. Why?... He thought he was driving.

Are you floating along with the stream today? [Check]

Dandy reply: An anecdote of Sir Bertrand Russell

BERTRAND Russell was put in jail for anti-war activities during World War I. As he answered the question about his religious affiliation with the term ‘agnostic’, the jailer commented to him:
"Ah yes, we all worship him in our own way, don't we?"

These three anecdotes may serve to remind us that many anecdotes can seem just a little tendentious at first glance - and that there is nothing wrong with that, after all.

Costly anecdotes are hardly a burden

Handling brambles

Mathematics-helped entertainment is of thoughts, and the finest anecdotes that we evolved on top of vector mathematics and so on, don't have to be out of harmony with parables of Jesus or our "homilies", "gists", or "summaries" as we may call them in different places. To the contrary, these two modes - the anecdote and more easily attainable summary work together, so that the anecdote for rousing some interest, the gist is for learning what to do, in case you need it.
You see, through cybernetics we have won new ways of forming gist, also in the shape of anecdotal texts.

The finest anecdotes hardly have to be good-natured, only historical, like a story about the betrayal of Jesus

The modern need to fit in can be marked by offensive bigwig semblance from "frogs" and lots else.

BY SHORTENING an anecdote or long tale expert-like, you should get the secret instructions or quite dormant lessons inside it on how to operate similarly yourself - something like that. it means that you may rise and shine in the long run by carefully emulating the bigwigs you look at, and next learn to articulate aspects of in stages as needs be. Maybe it's your father.
Our tick tack toe stories are a new wave fairy tales for just that sort of endearing accomplishments. They can bear a semblance to both folk tales and fables, basically designed in harmony with good parables of Jesus. Warm stories are fit for good men and stout women. We think warm and bland persons can often make it without insulting good men and stout women at all.
We may derive handsome lessons and half-norms from witticism and historical anecdotes too, not only Aesop's fables or folk tale fables. What's intrinsically nice, most often fits sound cognitive development if all is well with the environment. In most places it's far from the case.
Deep Yahweh-insight can be had by listening to the angels inside a bush. It doesn't have to burn into cinders for that to happen. Keen insight is next after that. It helps to get proficient in both these areas. They can be combined. Next you can feel free to modify as suits you. ¤
The true anecdote is still the counterpart of the parable and fable. Some are overtly blatant or humorous. Thre are ground rules for how to use the modern anecdote without many side-steps. Accommodate according to your need to fit in. Many things are relative.
Quite British-looking or realism-enhancing anecdotes got famed for what they were in the first place - having solid, good points that some people loved to listen to and repeat to others later. For all that the good histirical-looking anecdote can portray facades and amount to some sudden insider betrayals or even ambush of bigwigs. "Have fun," insists Yogananda. It can be done in a variety of ways. Your judgement should tell you when it is wise to vary an anecdote and when to let it stand. Where the original name and locale are not closely involved with the point, or where the names may be largely forgotten, change often improves the story.
It's the good point that counts, but the figures of fame bolster it up and give a setting that is often memorable. Like fables, good British anecdotes can be used for costly teaching. These things have been explored by us. All the same, anecdote points, or their essential, hard-headed gist for competing guys, can be grouped in many different ways.

Mathematics-helped humour is here

THE FIT points are often the least welcome if they sabotage unfair might and power around. Good, British anecdotes may force interesting, odd and weird points to the fore anyhow. Besides, it often helps to stay firm and solid in your own right. We would go for that. An anecdote is a pointed story; a well-lived lives looms fantastically taller.
Many British anecdotes against snobs and humdrum bitterness arrive at weird-looking points that are a lot askew from regular, society-ridden thinking. That's their value.
Believe it or not, we have arrived at good ack-up anecdotes on top of mathematics-governed cybernetic layouts behind any tick tack toe scheme. We've taken pains to make the stories and insights plain and the presentation compressed. Someone can make back-up humour from tick tack toe surveys - at least we can.
The art of selecting golden (handy or useful) lessons and make fitting anecdotes on top of them is behind any so-called "bramble study" of ours. It is help to manifest or outwit the opponents aces by serving them in a new key, with another tone, an new setting, and all that is helped by being a fit story-teller in the first place, naturally.
Over and above all that, we have to stay as first-class as we can master or others can absorb without being smashed or ruined from our side.

Just some sound forerunners of personal inspection, and little less

OFTEN inside our bramble humour, which could fit the general scheme of a betraying anecdote of a kind, there is place for more, including good references to similar studies of first-class quality. Or we may link up to gross folklore jokes - that sort of wit. It may be often deft, underhand and oddly relevant, like our burlesques. [Agha]
What goes before a bramble peace of humour or poetry, is firm study rooted in much selective, comparative labour, and on top of that we arrive at adapted, mature humour with many revealing assets inside it. Bramble humour can be a mature art. And it's much linked with dominant lessons found in costly ancient and rencent anecdotes. In part it serves the gleaning plots the ancients mastered: the Greeks found how-to-do-it lessons from animal comparisons and little less. They also insisted between a thousand lines: It helps to be well prepared.
Dao is had

Quite often conform and good-looking tact is served by first-class subtle irony or humour that has arrived at much distancing first. (6)
"Who thinks a joke is just a joke, and seriousness only serious, he and she has understood both poorly, to be frank." - Here is the first Kumbel's Gruk by Danish Piet Hein so rendered.
All this said, many warm and not much gross jokes can be like anecdotes. Many celebrity stories often have undercover significance as well. In part, anecdotes is what we use as anecdotes. We next have to leave it to you to ponder what that significance may be. It can be guessed at.
Now, anecdotes are of many kinds. They're often used by professional entertainers to break ice, and in public settings to warm up somewhat before the more boring things set in.
What's good to get to grips with in a standard penetration into the humour, is the main events as they pop up - the string or chain of action, and what it revolves around - it means what happens, and often a guessed at, tentative reply to some "why on earth?" (7)
There are many more ways to inspect and use the formidable anecdote, and let's not forget that you can stand on top of the tales you tell and get some sun from it, perhaps.
Also, bright humour and tall stories can reveal common adaptation processes fairly often, like warm fables. [Cf. Pan] (8)

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Celebrities fairly often get anecdotes attached to their names because famous men can serve as great pegs for memory and humourous stories

YOU'RE not really a claqueur if you use warm and witty anecdotes, not much of a thief either. And here's what your talking may amount to look like from using them: Careful or studied, fun and loveable. Such things matter.

Research

DEAN NICHOLAS Murray Butler and Professor Brander Matthews of Columbia University were discussing stories. Said Matthews,
"In the case of the first man to use an anecdote there is originality, in the case of the second there is plagiarism; with the third, it is lack of originality; and with the fourth it is drawing from a common stock."
"Yes" broke in Butler, "and in the case of the fifth it is research."

THAT'S a classical anecdote of its kind.
Great fables and folktales can contain anecdotal humour and wit. They deserve far more more prominence in the arenas of learning for how they work on men and women and their children.
Tick tack toe sermons have the much similar intrinsic design - and interestingly, if you condense them in accordance with set rules for that, make neat and fit selections, let animals or celebrieties speak up and act somewhat, then you have much - anecdotal wit and humour of the tick tack toe sort, unless you master to put it to much staunch and fairly regular use, is the bet.
Jokes may pep up some and debunk plotting guys fairly often or fairly well. But much depends on performer and the wider scene - that setting.

Gist

Through anecdotes mankind should muster lots of fun

Might offends and prowess gets debatable later.

THE FIT and salient points inside didactic or offhand-looking humour often help against offenders in some set-up scheme or arrangements, and serve good thinking fairly often. And historical anecdotes fairly often contain one original embarrassment at bottom. The fit points underneath the surface veneer in costly anecdotes very often sabotage unfair might. Maybe that's how Hasidim humour serves mankind also.
This was to suggest that good humour may back you up a lot, if you're much skilled or careful at it.

Costly anecdotes aid the heart: our philosophical exegesis

On top of the foregoing you may assemble this array of points instead of putting them to practical use -

Handling brambles

Historical anecdotes fairly often contain one original embarrassment at bottom

The finest anecdotes hardly have to be good-natured, only historical, like a story about the betrayal of Gatt.
We may derive handsome lessons and half-norms from witticism and historical anecdotes too.
You can use the modern anecdote without many side-steps as is fit.
Where the original name and locale are not closely involved with the point, some deft amendments can shape up a story and save us embarassment.

The fit points often help against offenders in some set-up scheme or arrangements, and serve good thinking fairly often

Mathematics-helped humour is here, believe it or not.
The fit points underneath the surface veneer in costly anecdotes very often sabotage unfair might.
The art of tick tack toe stratagems involve how to design back-up humour - some in anecdote form.

It tends to helps a lot to get proficient in anecdote telling

Anecdotes have mainly served as loveable or sound forerunners of personal inspection till now, and little less. Yet we have explored some thousands of them through the years, and much systematically.
Inside the peace of humour or poetry and novels, hidden points may lie embedded as helps to get better prepared.
Here's our method: "Who thinks a joke's just a joke, and seriousness only serious, has got it quite poorly." - After Piet Hein
What's good to get to grips with in a standard penetration into the humour, is the main events.
Good, proficient humour and tall stories can reveal common adaptations with marring effects for pretenders and without harming nice guys.
If you can use British anecdotes with tact and likewise mild irony and fit applomb at times, much could go well that otherwise might not. There's reason to auggest that humour and machines should help us all to carry on.

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