Is it possible for us to 'develop' a sense of humor?

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marshall
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21 Jan 2009, 3:21 am

Dussel wrote:
marshall wrote:
I have a sense of humor but it's not one suitable for everyone. Anything absurd or shockingly twisted makes me laugh.

I recently joked with my father that the best solution to the economic recession would be to randomly kill off one third of the population in order to create more job openings. You can see why most of the stuff I find funny I keep to myself.


My similar sense of humour caused more trouble than it benefited my - My humour is often too "black" (a typical situation when a friend of mine had a cough and I told him that he shall not be worried, his recently died mother made the same kind of caugh and so far I know her death was quite peaceful ...) or too absurd when I suggested in company that instead of writing Christmas-Card manually we should construct a machine, which writes the card, put into envelopes, adds the address and stamp and put the cards directly into a shredder, the place where those will end up anyway ... I shouldn't seen this idea via e-mail to <all>.

So I learned the hard way to keep my ideas mostly by myself and try to smile about the lame and harmless jokes of others.


Those sound exactly like the kind of jokes I would come up with. Unfortunately not everyone is comfortable giving in to the dark side. :twisted: