Monday, March 23, 2009
viral's Notebook
Mignon McLaughlin
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
Mignon McLaughlin
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
Mignon McLaughlin
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Mignon McLaughlin
Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.
Mignon McLaughlin
Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.
Mignon McLaughlin
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
Mignon McLaughlin
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
Mignon McLaughlin
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.
Mignon McLaughlin
If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.
Mignon McLaughlin
If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
Mignon McLaughlin
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
Mignon McLaughlin
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Mignon McLaughlin
It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.
Mignon McLaughlin
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Mignon McLaughlin
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Mignon McLaughlin
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
Mignon McLaughlin
Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.
Mignon McLaughlin
Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.
Mignon McLaughlin
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
Mignon McLaughlin
Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.
Mignon McLaughlin
No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
Mignon McLaughlin
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
Mignon McLaughlin
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
Mignon McLaughlin
Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.
Mignon McLaughlin
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
Mignon McLaughlin
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
Mignon McLaughlin
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Mignon McLaughlin
The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.
Mignon McLaughlin
The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
Mignon McLaughlin
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.
Mignon McLaughlin
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Mignon McLaughlin
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
Mignon McLaughlin
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
Mignon McLaughlin
We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
Mignon McLaughlin
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.
Mignon McLaughlin
We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
Mignon McLaughlin
We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
Mignon McLaughlin
What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
Mignon McLaughlin
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Mignon McLaughlin
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
Mignon McLaughlin
Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.
Mignon McLaughlin
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Types of Humor
Different Types of Verbal & Written Humor used by Shahbuddin Rathod, greatest philosopher and stand-up comedian of Kathiyawar, Gujarat.
Adviser: the comic adviser gives uncalled for advice in a Punch prototype. Ex: Advice to people who want to buy a puppy: Don't.
Anecdotes: any interesting event, either having to do with a celebrity or something smaller, that helps the humorist make a point. Anecdotes are great for the speaker and writer.
Aside: a thought added as if something the speaker was saying reminded him of it.
Banter: good-natured teasing back and forth; exchange of witty remarks.
Blendword: blending two or three words to make a new word. Ex: smog for smoke and fog.
Blue Humor: not appropriate for the public speaker. Humor based on easily offensive subjects like making love, body parts, and bodily functions.
Blunder: wit based on a person who makes a mistake, which makes them appear foolish.
Bull: a humorous statement that is based on an outrageous contradiction. Ex: "The best people have never had kids."
Burlesque: a form of satire. Burlesque ridicules any basic style of speech or writing. (Parody makes fun of specific writings.)
Caricature: exaggeration of a person’s mental, physical, or personality traits, in wisecrack form.
The Catch Tale: a funny story that messes up the reader or listener by implying an awful ending but then stopping with a small declaration.
Conundrum: a word puzzle that can’t be solved because the answer is a pun. Ex: why do cows wear bells? Their horns don’t work.
Epigram: clever, short saying about a general group. Mostly satire about mankind. Two types, wordplay and thought play.
Exaggerism: an exaggerated witticism that overstates the features, defects, or the strangeness of someone or something.
Freudian Slip: a funny statement which seems to just pop out, but which actually comes from the person’s subconscious thoughts.
Hyperbole: extreme exaggeration.
Irony: a leading part of humor. Irony is using words to express something completely different from the literal meaning. Usually, someone says the opposite of what they mean and the listener believes the opposite of what they said.
Joke: short story ending with a funny climactic twist.
Nonsensism: inclusive of the epigram and the wisecrack, it is any kind of funny nonsense in speaking form. Nonsensism includes all kinds of absurdity without realistic logic and makes a general observation of absurd reference.
Parody: humorous version of any well-known writing. Ex: Weird Al Yankovic’s "Pretty Fly for a Rabbi".
Practical Joke: a joke put into action. You hear an oral joke, sees a printed joke, and feel the practical joke. The trick is played on another person and the humor comes from what happens.
Recovery: a combination of blunder and wit, where a person makes an error, and then saves himself with a fast correction.
Repartee: includes clever replies and retorts. The most common form is the insult.
Satire: wit that is critical humor. Satire is sarcasm that makes fun of something.
Situational Humor: this is comedy that comes from your own life. No one in your audience will have heard it and it can get a group used to you. This type of humor is based on a humorous situation that you have experienced.
Switching: a common form of switching is changing the main parts of the story, such as the setup or the punch line, and creating a new joke.
Understatement: making something that is regular or large seem extremely smaller or less. Intentionally down- sizing a large object.
Wisecrack: any clever remark about a particular person or thing. Wisecracks are quick wordplays about a person.
Wit: humor, irony, sarcasm, satire, repartee. Wit is funny because of the sudden sharpness and quick perception. Wit can bite. Verbal wit is a type of humor known as Wordplay.
Adviser: the comic adviser gives uncalled for advice in a Punch prototype. Ex: Advice to people who want to buy a puppy: Don't.
Anecdotes: any interesting event, either having to do with a celebrity or something smaller, that helps the humorist make a point. Anecdotes are great for the speaker and writer.
Aside: a thought added as if something the speaker was saying reminded him of it.
Banter: good-natured teasing back and forth; exchange of witty remarks.
Blendword: blending two or three words to make a new word. Ex: smog for smoke and fog.
Blue Humor: not appropriate for the public speaker. Humor based on easily offensive subjects like making love, body parts, and bodily functions.
Blunder: wit based on a person who makes a mistake, which makes them appear foolish.
Bull: a humorous statement that is based on an outrageous contradiction. Ex: "The best people have never had kids."
Burlesque: a form of satire. Burlesque ridicules any basic style of speech or writing. (Parody makes fun of specific writings.)
Caricature: exaggeration of a person’s mental, physical, or personality traits, in wisecrack form.
The Catch Tale: a funny story that messes up the reader or listener by implying an awful ending but then stopping with a small declaration.
Conundrum: a word puzzle that can’t be solved because the answer is a pun. Ex: why do cows wear bells? Their horns don’t work.
Epigram: clever, short saying about a general group. Mostly satire about mankind. Two types, wordplay and thought play.
Exaggerism: an exaggerated witticism that overstates the features, defects, or the strangeness of someone or something.
Freudian Slip: a funny statement which seems to just pop out, but which actually comes from the person’s subconscious thoughts.
Hyperbole: extreme exaggeration.
Irony: a leading part of humor. Irony is using words to express something completely different from the literal meaning. Usually, someone says the opposite of what they mean and the listener believes the opposite of what they said.
Joke: short story ending with a funny climactic twist.
Nonsensism: inclusive of the epigram and the wisecrack, it is any kind of funny nonsense in speaking form. Nonsensism includes all kinds of absurdity without realistic logic and makes a general observation of absurd reference.
Parody: humorous version of any well-known writing. Ex: Weird Al Yankovic’s "Pretty Fly for a Rabbi".
Practical Joke: a joke put into action. You hear an oral joke, sees a printed joke, and feel the practical joke. The trick is played on another person and the humor comes from what happens.
Recovery: a combination of blunder and wit, where a person makes an error, and then saves himself with a fast correction.
Repartee: includes clever replies and retorts. The most common form is the insult.
Satire: wit that is critical humor. Satire is sarcasm that makes fun of something.
Situational Humor: this is comedy that comes from your own life. No one in your audience will have heard it and it can get a group used to you. This type of humor is based on a humorous situation that you have experienced.
Switching: a common form of switching is changing the main parts of the story, such as the setup or the punch line, and creating a new joke.
Understatement: making something that is regular or large seem extremely smaller or less. Intentionally down- sizing a large object.
Wisecrack: any clever remark about a particular person or thing. Wisecracks are quick wordplays about a person.
Wit: humor, irony, sarcasm, satire, repartee. Wit is funny because of the sudden sharpness and quick perception. Wit can bite. Verbal wit is a type of humor known as Wordplay.
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