I've been the class joke for a long... loooong time - but my ridiculous self comes out more in small group situations in which i am permitted to joke.
in university, this self became allowable the day the BSA president said to me: "Tahereh, your minutes are boring. Make them funny." And since that day, the minutes were semi-funny.
The peak of the funny came this past term - when that same prez ended up in my classes everyday. What God could've been thinking I am not sure - but the result is that all of our notes now are riddled with the most absurd comments. I have maintained for years that I have ADD - this term has only proved that point to me.
So, today, I was excited to point out my blog to the prez - here on out to be called Figs. Figs read the previous blog post and the regret from having wasted a full 30 seconds to read was clear. "T-money," she says. "This is not funny. I expected your blog to be funny." And she was thinking, I thought she was funny - who is this un-funny writer? Has T-money been lying to me about her funniness? And so began Figs' questioning of my integrity...
And so here I am, in the library, falling asleep - worried that my Figs is not amused enough at my ponderances. One must ask oneself: how can you write funny things on a blog post? Is this possible? What method can we go by to examine what counts as funny and what does not?
Like DNA microarrays, I think that we might require some sort of funny-standard by which we can compare all humourous forms of expression.
I'm also wondering what Figs could find as funny. My biochemistry and chemistry notes mostly have sarcastic or absurd comments/questions written on them. For example: today in chemistry we learnt that the scientific method is a load of garbage; all of the drugs we learnt about today were the result of either accidents in the lab, or mistakes that we now have regulations against. (Flemming for example, discovered penicillin because he left his lab's windows open when he went on vacation - so when he came back, and all his bacteria were dead, he was confused, and then discoverd penicillin.) So basically, the modern lab is made so that you can't win a Nobel prize - no one these days is allowed to be stupid enough to do so.
Anyway, back to the question of the funny - there are also different types of funny... like satire or sarcasm (I recently saw a cartoon of a squirrel arguing with a guy working at Starschmucks - the guy says to him: it's customary to leave a tip, sir - and the squirrel says back: so's heterosexuality, but that doesn't seem to faze you!) - but usually these forms of funny are insulting to others (as the above is) and so it's not very good... then there's stupid funny - like Zoolander (I think this one speaks for itself).. there's cute funny (like a shirt my brother bought for my little sister that says on it: It wasn't me, it was my evil sister - with a picture of two stick figure girls, one with a happy face and one with an angry face) then there's painful funny - like a bad fall... as I am prone to do... (eek! slip and slide!) or shake your head funny (like "overheard at" websites).
And then, there's bad blogposts like this one, specifically designed to make you shake your head and say wow, that kid's an idiot - and then think, well.. either that, or she's a major geek! - take your pick...
smiling yet?
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
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3 comments:
Thank you for wasting 4 minutes of my life. You were right, it wasn't funny. I think you ask too many questions and go on too many tangents. Be more funny haji. Get Sarah to rub some off on you. Remember, Monkey sex is funny.
First things first... Monkey sex is by no means EVER funny. That's grosser than gross! Secondly, the questions on the blog are rhetorical, not real... it's a very common complex, narrative writing style to engage the reader! Therefore, I conclude that I liked the post. It raised some very good issues, and it retained enough serious information to make it not a waste of time, yet it contained enough humour to make me crack a smile. Good work Haji.
Sarah
dear readers,
you might be interested to know that the one mentioned in my post as Figs and the one named Sarah are the same person. i'm glad that at least one of my two readers cracked a smile. eheh
-YHS
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