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From: flaps@utcs.uucp (Alan J Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: Theories of Humour
Message-ID: <883@utcs.uucp>
Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 15:14:31 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 24 15:14:31 1985
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Reply-To: flaps@utcs.UUCP (Alan J Rosenthal)
Organization: University of Toronto - General Purpose UNIX
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Summary: 

>... Why do we laugh most at extreme cleverness?

We don't.  In fact when something is extremely clever we are less likely to
laugh at it.  It causes a deeper appreciation of the humour which involves
less laughing and more saying "Gee, that's clever".