Re: s'Dat'n'Island
Excordis@aol.com
Sat, 04 Dec 1999 22:43:24 -0500 (EST)
In a message dated 4/12/99 9:25:21 AM Pacific Standard Time,
sid-vicious@mindspring.com writes:
> A social studies teacher told me this joke once...
>
> Henry Hudson is sailing down what is now the Narrows River, and he's got a
> mapmaker with him and as they're sailing he's trying his best to make a map
> of this new land. And as they're sailing Hudson looks over and sees this
> big piece of land and says, "ish dat an island?" so the mapmaker writes
down
> "Staten Island"
>
> haha?
>
:) Those jokes aren't bad when you know the person recognizes that it's a bad
joke. I wonder why, but that involves going into the whole reason for things
being funny which is, without exception, based on some form of social
ridicule. Complicated. Would anyone know of any books analyzing humour? I
think it could be understood functionally as a tool to keep people the same,
and prevent them from doing things out of the ordinary.
-Tory