fandomhigh | Logically Speaking, Period 6, 12 May '09

Mohinder had pulled the classroom chairs into a broad semi-circle and was sitting on his desk, reading through his class list when the students showed up.

When everyone had taken a seat, Mohinder started off with introductions. "Good afternoon. This is the workshop for Logically Speaking - if you signed up then you should be here, and if you are here then hopefully the converse is true. My name is Mohinder Suresh, when I'm not here I'm a doctor of genetics from New York. Now, you know who I am I'd like to know your name, your point of origin and what would be the first thing you'd rescue if your home was burning."

After that was completed, Mohinder started passing round a handout. "We'll start with humour. What it is that makes us laugh - and that can be a product of our history environment and so on. But much of it follows a logical pattern. From the juxtasposition of unrelated ideas, puns or plays on sounds, practical jokes undercutting someone's dignity to the more contrived arts of coincidence and mistaken identity in comedy."

"Now, I want to try and make each other laugh. Verbally, please. Then try and figure out why that joke worked," said Mohinder, adding, "Oh, and Claire Butler? ~~assuming she's here~~ I'd like to speak to you after class."

[OCD is up. Have at!]

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For listening, talking, but probably not taking notes.

Ino was totally a dork today, with her crown of flowers, and twirling her pen absently as she listened to him talk.

Claire thought the professor looked familiar. And she was definitely a little freaked that he wanted to talk to her after class.

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Jon tossed a note over at Claire.

What do you think he wants?

Claire shrugged.

I don't know. I haven't done anything worth getting in trouble over.

Jon was paying just a little more attention to others in the class.

As she received the handout, Valentine looked it over a little, thinking of highlighting the humor part, and taping it to Ender's door with a note that she's thinking of getting him a sense of one of these for Christmas. Her attention was otherwise on the teacher, though dully so, as if, since the topic was humor, she had to appear the exact opposite of.

Yakko was taking detailed notes.

If by "taking detailed notes" you mean playing MASH in his notebook.

He was married to Charlize Theron with negative seventeen children. They lived in a house and drove a nuclear-powered unicycle.

Gabrielle was listening, definitely. She had both hands clasped on the desk in front of her and her mouth hanging slightly open as she listened, as a matter of fact.

Making people laugh? She could do that. Granted, a lot of the time it was by accident, but . . .

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