Humour, Anecdotes, Jokes and Slapstick

"Manifest plainness . . . and have no undue concerns." - From Tao Te Ching, chap. 19, in Hendricks 1991, 224)

Humour can be verbal, visual, physical or have other outlets. There are many forms of humour, and some may even be mildly therapeutical.

Anecdotes are spread over many pages on the site and marked by the icon to the left. In addition there are folkloric entertainment, other humorous quotations, sayings and bywords among proverbs too.

JOKES

ANECDOTES

QUOTATIONS

INTO HUMOUR THEORY

A SERIES OF QUIPS ETC.

Anecdotes, Jokes, and Slapstick suggested

Horses and anecdotes: Suddenly you get aware there is "a pair of horses", and not just one - that is, not just one set of associations and thereby not just one frame of reference. Such a sudden perception ("bisociation") on the funny side of thinghs makes for very much humour, explains Arthur Koestler in his book The Act of Creation (Penguin, 1989:35-46. etc.). See also his humour article in Encyclopaedia Britannica (s.v. "Humour", and Wikipedia, s.v. "The Act of Creation".

First Page