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Step 2Sarcasm, genius
Well sarcasm is clearly the way to go for many, you're basically just lying for comical purposes.
Wikipedia says: 'Sarcasm is stating the opposite of an intended meaning especially in order to sneeringly, slyly, jest or mock a person, situation or thing. It is strongly associated with irony, with some definitions classifying it as a type of verbal irony intended to insult or wound.'
Isn't that just wonderful kids? Yeah right now that's sarcasm, if you could see me I'd have a sneer or some such on my face. That's like the most basic form of sarcasm, it gets more complicated, especially in text.
Sarcasm is a very easy kind of humour to use, it's the receiving end where it gets complicated, a lot of it falls to gullibility and the better the joke the harder it is to pick up with sarcasm, generally if someone says 'really?' after you're in trouble, you now have a joke to explain, this will kill it unless you decide to make a further joke on top of this, sadly it has the potential to wound as you must make the person fell foolish and alienate them.
Sarcasm is one of those things that is natural in conversation, we barely notice it as we chuckle, but when you write it down it gets harder, take this example from earlier in the conversation that started this, in fact this did start the idea of the instructable, the key points are kept the rest is removed to make more sense of this:
- by the end of this you'll have given me a complex...
- I don't want to give you a complex :-)
- Yeah I was only joking remember Goodhart, all worrying things from a Jackalopes mouth should be ignored (old Chinese proverb)
- Oh I know you were joking, still....well, it is hard to explain :-)
- I know humour is difficult in conversational text, better for stories etc... I hate the term 'lol' but it does its job well...
- Yes, especially sarcasm and such.
The point here is that the humour doesn't always appear correctly... It's usually funny anyway as long as jokes keep coming but sometime you have to give in and use the dreaded 'LOL'
A few examples should help:
I like dogs too. Let's exchange recipes. (this also fits in as "Dark or Black humour)
I majored in liberal arts. Do you want Fries with that and will that be for here or to go?
Suburbia: where they tear out the trees & then name streets after them.
Earth is full. Go home.
Stress is when you wake up screaming & you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet.
Nice perfume. Must you marinate in it?
Ambivalent? Well, yes and no.
Wikipedia says: 'Sarcasm is stating the opposite of an intended meaning especially in order to sneeringly, slyly, jest or mock a person, situation or thing. It is strongly associated with irony, with some definitions classifying it as a type of verbal irony intended to insult or wound.'
Isn't that just wonderful kids? Yeah right now that's sarcasm, if you could see me I'd have a sneer or some such on my face. That's like the most basic form of sarcasm, it gets more complicated, especially in text.
Sarcasm is a very easy kind of humour to use, it's the receiving end where it gets complicated, a lot of it falls to gullibility and the better the joke the harder it is to pick up with sarcasm, generally if someone says 'really?' after you're in trouble, you now have a joke to explain, this will kill it unless you decide to make a further joke on top of this, sadly it has the potential to wound as you must make the person fell foolish and alienate them.
Sarcasm is one of those things that is natural in conversation, we barely notice it as we chuckle, but when you write it down it gets harder, take this example from earlier in the conversation that started this, in fact this did start the idea of the instructable, the key points are kept the rest is removed to make more sense of this:
- by the end of this you'll have given me a complex...
- I don't want to give you a complex :-)
- Yeah I was only joking remember Goodhart, all worrying things from a Jackalopes mouth should be ignored (old Chinese proverb)
- Oh I know you were joking, still....well, it is hard to explain :-)
- I know humour is difficult in conversational text, better for stories etc... I hate the term 'lol' but it does its job well...
- Yes, especially sarcasm and such.
The point here is that the humour doesn't always appear correctly... It's usually funny anyway as long as jokes keep coming but sometime you have to give in and use the dreaded 'LOL'
A few examples should help:
I like dogs too. Let's exchange recipes. (this also fits in as "Dark or Black humour)
I majored in liberal arts. Do you want Fries with that and will that be for here or to go?
Suburbia: where they tear out the trees & then name streets after them.
Earth is full. Go home.
Stress is when you wake up screaming & you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet.
Nice perfume. Must you marinate in it?
Ambivalent? Well, yes and no.
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