Monday, December 15, 2008

Never tell a bad joke, It might effect to your health.


Every one cannot be a good joke teller. A good joke mainly depends on situtaion, listeners mood and the way of presentation. US linguist at the Washington State University researched on effect of bad jokes, and found that people who tell bad jokes often endure an astonishing outpouring of hostility from the listeners.

“These were basically attacks intended to result in the social exclusion or humiliation of the speaker, punctuated on occasion with profanity, a nasty glare or even a solid punch to the arm,” said researcher Nancy Bell.

For this research she used many kinds of jokes including jokes that contain offensive material or slurs. The worest response that she received for this small joke (act its not joke, its riddle) in her bad joke research is “What did the big chimney say to the little chimney? Nothing, chimneys can’t talk.’’ The responses to this childish riddle included insults, glares, silence or even blows. “The predominant verbal reaction to failed humour in our study was oriented exclusively toward attacking the speaker,’’

Nancy’s findings would come as no surprise to most professional comics, who know that humour can sometimes turn very, very ugly.

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