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A rather interesting situation occurred with me this week.

I am attempting to get my AA degree certificate over the course of this year, and next year. One day, it was raining, as it has been here in New York lately. My course teacher said, "I bet you're playing duck today."

I got that, and I know my course teacher has a sense of humor, but it just doesn't come naturally to me.

Our class maintains a website provided by a company in one of the surrounding areas. We are one of many schools which have their website connected to that one.

One of the things my teacher does is he puts up what is called a "Joke of the Day," and it is just a random joke. I read the jokes on occasion, I'm silent for a little while, and then I start to laugh.

How can you all observe humor is a problem for people like us?

It really depends on the joke. My brother and I make up about one or two word puns a day, so I make some and I like them. But I think a little before laughing at some jokes.
I also enjoy scientific jokes.

I would say that I have a sense of humor, but it seems it is different from my brother's and my family's.

I've always had trouble understanding jokes. I also have a very unique sense of humor and usually make really funny word puns. I'm known to point out things that are funny that people don't see as funny.

"Do you're shoes say PONY on them?"
"Yeah, so."
"Well, last I checked, shoes aren't made of pony's."
" Ben, you're an idiot."
*pause*
" YOU'RE WEARING SHOES THAT SAY 'PONY' ON THEM!"
Other person: "My shoes say 'Vans' on them."
"AHH!! !"

It didn't happen exactly like that. It was a running joke for 2 or 3 days. I'm also known for funny catch phrase of ignorance. I well hear my friends talking about something I don't know a lot about, and I'll try adding something, and it'll be funny because it makes no sense.

Many times I don't get other peoples' jokes but I adore puns and have actually turned my literal nature into humor. For instance:

a fellow student was in the halls with me before German class and she and a friend were going to go outside and smoke some cigarettes (eck!) and she asked me "Will you watch my stuff while I'm gone??"

By now, I know this means instead "Will you make sure no one tries to take my stuff?" but not really said but implied in what she asked me. And I said with a smile "Sure. Do you want me to do anything if anyone actually tries to take it?" And she smiled back and said in good-humored sarcasm "Eh, no. Just watch it. They can have it if they really want."

But I don't really get punch lines. I use my humor for things I know can be taken literally and make humor out of those. I think I am quite good at it now, actually.

Could you explain it to the rest of us?

Does it mean playing in the water
outside on a rainy day, or over
rubberized for the weather(that
horrible yellow heavy plastic
rain jacket)?

Hmmm?
Ghosthunter

I took it to be sorta trying to duck the rain as best as possible. But then again, now that I think about it, it coulda meant just that you would be as wet as a duck, ducks being in water a lot.

But then I think of "duck-duck-goose" which is a game played.

I am totally confused now...

Perhaps the implication was that you wished to pretend that you were a duck because if you were, then water would not adhere to you but rather slide off as in the famous phrase: like water off of a duck's back.

I have humor, but I don't attach value to it. Also, my sense of humor is different from most peoples' (much as others in this thread have described). Typically I 'get' most jokes, but don't find them humorous enough to react in any way. On the other hand, things which I think are funny are typically not ones that other people find amusing. For example, most people start running when they hear me start punning. Sometimes a mere thought will make me collapse into a prolonged fit of hilarity that is so powerful that the throat spasms it induces prevent any actual sounds of laughter from escaping. That is rare.

It is hard not to sometimes find my own jokes and humorous asides outrageously funny and to keep a straight face as I am the joker. But it is hard. Often times I can stifle the laughter, but I start smiling and even my eyes will water sometimes.

First of all, Jetson, I meant to say that I understood my AA degree course teacher of playing duck. Sophist, duck-duck goose is a game you play, but my teacher meant to take it as, "acting as a duck." He meant to use the figurative media terminology, so to speak. Lastly, I must say, we all have very unique senses of humor.

Humor isn't too much of a problem for me. Stand-up comedy, even though I don't do it, is one of my obsessions.

Alas, I have something of an off-beat sense of humor. Most of my humor runs towards the macabre, also known as "gallows humor.," which is one of the reasons I'm not sure if I have AS, or if I'm just weird.

I was leaning towards that, however the words "playing" and "duck" together just triggered the whole phrase "playing duck-duck-goose". And then my mind wandered...

I love slapstick standup comedy (Robin Williams and Monty Python rule), but I never get the gist of any sort of a "practical" joke.

You know those jokes, where somebody pretends to be serious or mean or hurtful, and then you react badly to it, and then they laugh because you reacted badly to it, and then they try to releave you because "it was just a joke", but you don't get it because you're still trying to adapt to the comment they made, which was ment to be "the joke".

I also have a very bad problem with laughing at things in which most people think as foul, eg. swearing (from any person and in any possible context), and graphic violence (such as those bloody battles in Breaveheart and Saving Private Ryan). Despite being diciplined by both myself and my parents, this is still a very bad issue with me, and may possibly (I'm not certain about this) be due to AS.

I don't think it's a problem as such. But I do think that we have a more quirky sense of humour than others.

I often laugh at things other people wouldn't find funny. I laugh all the time. I love laughing!

How true.

I like deadpan humor the best, although I do miss a lot of it. See Airplane! for a perfect expositstion of deadpan humor. . .

I still smile and tear up everytime I remember the austin powers 2 movie. . .the shillote of the lady "fisting" powers was so funny I almost died the first time I saw it. . .

I have a bit of an odd laugh. Not so much that people are staring at me like "What the hell?" But it certainly has its signature.

By the by, one of my favorite comedies/movies of all time: CLUE. Awesome movie