On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, Joyce 'Azusa' Meadows, Sailor Slacker wrote:

On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, Kergma wrote:

On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, White Wolf wrote:

In A Stranger In a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein proposed that laughter 
is the human response to pain.  At the root of humor, could be an insult, 
or a tragedy, or some other form of human misery.  Laughing is how we 
keep it from hurting so much.  Explains how the truly depressed can laugh 
hysterically, huh?

Find at least 10 jokes that don't involve someone or something being 
humiliated in one way or another.

Two men were walking in the forest when a bear started chasing them.  One 
  man stopped to tie his shoe.  "What are you doing?"  asked the other 
  man.  "Even with your shoes tied, you can't outrun that bear!"
  "I'm not worried about outrunning him," said the man.  "I just have to 
  outrun you."

You saying getting eaten by a bear is funny?  Gee, I gues Heinlein *was* 
right.