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Anatomy of a Joke, part 1.

1.  Shroomery has long history of loose censorship policy
2.  User obviously crosses the line
3.  Everyone overreacts, mostly because they seek entertainment
4.  Second user feigns congnitive dissonance.  Re: conventional v post-conventional morality.
5.  Third user takes that person seriously and posts a wanna-be textbook response, with a little added sass.
6.  Second user decides to go for the over the top approach because he assesses that user three won't understand further subtlety.
7.  Fourth user comes to third users rescue because he just wants to say something.
8.  Second user points out that third and fourth probably missed step one and didn't read the statement in the appropriate context.

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ACTUALLY The Real Anatomy of a Joke,

1.  I don't have to know jack shit about Shroomery
2.  Opinionated Asshole really thinks his joke was funny
3.  No one is overreacting at the Growery dude
4.  Use fancy spacing
5.  Irony
6.  Conflict
7.  I slept with your wife
8.  I'm not being serious ...not at all

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congruity in incongruity

and vice versa.

sense in nonsense.

nonsense in sense.

truth seeming to be false.

falsity seeming to be true.

hopeless desires.

wrong seeming to be right.

right seeming to be wrong.

juxtaposition of unlike things.

possible impossibility.

saying one thing and meaning

another.

pretending and deceiving.

Or some of my favorites

blatant vice humor about stereotype humor

contradiction humor about deviation humor

ignorance humor about circularity humor

reduce analogy humor to absurdity

satire of puns

accident humor about accident humor

ambiguity about ambiguity

caricature of caricature

circular humor about circular humor

exaggeration about exaggeration

irony about irony

parody of parody

pun about puns

rationalization of rationalization

satire of satire

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I had been awake for 36 hours at that point.  I was starting to get delirious.  Man, my real geniuous sure does peek it's head out when I'm passing out.

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