Logically Speaking, Period 6, 12 May '09

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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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Re: Joking 1 (LS)

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

Gabrielle thought for a few minutes, and came up with a joke that she was sure nobody had ever heard before.

Wait for it . . .

Wait for it . . .

"Why did the cyclops cross the road?"

Seriously. The Special Greece.

Re: Joking 1 (LS)

[yakkoyaks.livejournal.com]

"OOH! OOH! I KNOW! I KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!" Yakko said, raising his hand, hoping Gabrielle would pick him to give the answer.

Re: Joking 1 (LS)

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

"Um." Gabrielle blinked. "Okay, you can give the punchline, but what are you?"

Re: Joking 1 (LS)

[yakkoyaks.livejournal.com]

"I'm a Warner Brother," Yakko said. "But we already did the introductions. The cyclops was either trying to get to the other side or he was looking for the chicken."

Re: Joking 1 (LS)

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

"He was trying to get to the other side," Gabrielle said, looking a little crestfallen. "I thought that was a new one!"

Re: Joking 1 (LS)

[yakkoyaks.livejournal.com]

"There there," Yakko said consolingly. "It's okay. It's probably only two or three hundred years old in your time."