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Feb. 13th, 2003 12:21 amI enjoy meta-jokes. At least in moderation. You know, jokes about jokes. Like:
A man walked into a bar and said "ouch."
Or
A priest, a rabbi, and a duck walked into a bar, and the bartender said "what is this, some kind of joke?"
In order to get these, you have to understand that an entire genre of jokes begin with "a man walked into a bar," and that another genre involves random combinations of people and animals, often focusing on occupation (especially religious occupation).
So this made me just want to go google "meta-jokes," discovering reviews for Being John Malkovitch, Adaptation, and Naked Gun. And The Simpsons. Commentary on the packaging of an Aimee Mann CD. A notation that limericks have a greater tendency to be meta or self-referential. FAQs for a number of boards. Also, the CV of someone who works at Youngstown State University who delivered a paper on "Jokes (Tokens and Types), Meta-Jokes, and Para-Jokes" at the Eleventh International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. And this person is apparently a linguist. And has written stuff like " The Linear Organization of Jokes: Statistical Analysis of Two Thousand Texts." And " Irony as Relevant Inappropriateness." A whole field of study in linguistics and humor studies. Who knew? (Probably![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sineala, but let's ignore that.)
A man walked into a bar and said "ouch."
Or
A priest, a rabbi, and a duck walked into a bar, and the bartender said "what is this, some kind of joke?"
In order to get these, you have to understand that an entire genre of jokes begin with "a man walked into a bar," and that another genre involves random combinations of people and animals, often focusing on occupation (especially religious occupation).
So this made me just want to go google "meta-jokes," discovering reviews for Being John Malkovitch, Adaptation, and Naked Gun. And The Simpsons. Commentary on the packaging of an Aimee Mann CD. A notation that limericks have a greater tendency to be meta or self-referential. FAQs for a number of boards. Also, the CV of someone who works at Youngstown State University who delivered a paper on "Jokes (Tokens and Types), Meta-Jokes, and Para-Jokes" at the Eleventh International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. And this person is apparently a linguist. And has written stuff like " The Linear Organization of Jokes: Statistical Analysis of Two Thousand Texts." And " Irony as Relevant Inappropriateness." A whole field of study in linguistics and humor studies. Who knew? (Probably
sineala, but let's ignore that.)
