Quotes About Humor

The traditional gross anatomy lab represented a sort of sink-or-swim mentality about dealing with death. To cope with what was being asked of them, medical students had to find ways to desensitize themselves. They quickly learned to objectify cadavers, to think of the dead as structures and tissues, and not a former human being. Humor--at the cadaver's expense--was tolerated, condoned even.

You mean like a small silicone breast implant?" I wasn't actually thinking that, but sure.

One woman confessed that her group had passed comment on the "extremely large genitalia" of their cadaver. (What she perhaps didn't realize is that the embalming fluid pumped into the veins expands the body's erectile tissues, with the result that male anatomy lab cadavers may be markedly better endowed in death than they were in life.)

Analogies drawn from the inspection of hen's eggs foundered on the objection that man was not a chicken.

Death. It doesn't have to be boring.

It's called the FATLOSE trail. FATLOSE stands for 'Fecal Administration To LOSE weight,' an example of PLEASE— Pretty Lame Excuse for an Acronym, Scientists and Experimenters.

No engineer could design something as multifunctional and fine-tuned as an anus. To call someone an asshole is really bragging him up.

I don't know the ultimate fate of a suppressed fart.

His wife Lynne, who has accompanied him on several visits, volunteers that she felt nothing. "Though I do sometimes feel a strange oppressiveness in the Sainsbury's dairy area." I volunteer that, owing to her accent or my fourth-grade maturity level, this came through as: "the Sainsbury's derriere." Lynne's look suggests that the humor isn't registering. It suggests she might think I'm something of a dairy area myself.

Bad enough that some ham-handed fop in a waistcoat and bowtie was up to his wrists in your urinary tract, but on top of that you had an audience-

Good luck to Deanna Pucciarelli, the woman who seeks to introduce mainstream America to the culinary joys of pig balls. "I am indeed working on a project on pork testicles," said Pucciarelli, director of the Hospitality and Food Management Program at—fill my heart with joy!—Ball State University.

I am skeptical, only because I have read the 1978 paper by researchers at Pennsylvania State University who tried to warn away white-tailed deer by erecting roadside plywood cutouts of deer rear ends with tails a-flagging. On some, the raised tail was painted white; on others, an actual deer tail had been nailed in place. Sadly, because who wouldn't want to see our nation's highways lined with plywood deer asses with decomposing tails, none of it worked.

You may be wondering: Could Ella Fitzgerald explode your liver? She could not.

Catfish are basically swimming tongues

someone who knows a little more than diddly. I'm scheduled to meet with the Center's wildlife genetics staff, upstairs in the Long Speak Room, which is an amusingly apt name for a government conference room (except that it isn't—a realization that will dawn when I take note of the plaque by the door, which reads: Longs Peak Room).

So she looks in her rearview mirror," one is saying, "and there's a bear in the back seat, eating popcorn.

Hidan: Hey, look at that, it's my headband! You went to the trouble of picking it up and keeping for me? I'm touched. You're a pretty nice guy, Kakuzu, you knwo that? Kakuzu: Shut up. Let's go. Hidan: Let me put it on at least! Okay, I'm coming. Admit it, you like me a little, doncha? Kakuzu: Either you shut up, or I'll kill you. Hidan: Haha, you're embarrassed! I understand.

And now I think about it, Doctor, it would appear that I have a growth on one of my testicles sounds like a Morrissey lyric, one he rejected as being too gloomy—that and the fact that finding a plausible rhyme for testicles would have been beyond even his considerable lyrical gifts.)

Because of this. Because your funny. Because you know Lolita. And Nabukov and James Mason too. Because you're cute and funny and i'm kind of sad and you haven't tried hitting on me once. Because you weren't even trying...

By laughing at yourself, you'll build your self-esteem and people will often empathize with you.

you fall flat on your face and find yourself in an embarrassing position, just joke about it because in the big picture it is NO BIG DEAL. By laughing

The first step in trying to get into a positive state of mind should be to smile and think of a funny thought. Another

stimulating conversations–ones that make us laugh so hard that it feels like we just completed an extreme abdominal workout, ones that

If, as a professor, you ask four men and two women each to wear a cotton T-shirt, no deodorant and no perfume, for two nights, then hand these T-shirts to you, you will probably be humored as a mite kinky.