{"id":36699,"date":"2021-05-11T19:17:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T03:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparselysageandtimely.com\/blog\/?p=36699"},"modified":"2023-12-21T14:19:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T22:19:32","slug":"humor-in-the-press-deliberate-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/?p=36699","title":{"rendered":"Humor in the press, deliberate or not"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Humor in newspapers and magazines<\/strong> goes far beyond straightforward jokes such as this. In fact, some of the funniest items in print were not intended that way.<\/p>\n

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Often the humor results from unintended double entendres<\/strong>. If “condemned” in the headline below is read as a noun, it refers to all people condemned to death in Utah. If it is read as a passive verb, it would seem to refer to all the people in Utah.<\/p>\n

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Some of the most hilarious humor<\/strong> results from the juxtaposition of different news events. In the case below, President Ronald Reagan’s visit to a school unfortunately was published alongside an unrelated story about child molesters.<\/p>\n

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Similarly, this woman pictured with her prize piglet<\/strong> has nothing to do with the story about sexual misconduct at city hall.<\/p>\n

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Say what?<\/strong> Just who is doing the trampling, crowds or the Pope? A change in word order could have avoided this absurdity.<\/p>\n

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Likewise if you reverse the order<\/strong> of the two lines above, the absurdity of 18 years in a checkout line would be eliminated.<\/p>\n

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And who’s the foolish person<\/strong>, the Garden Grove resident or the judge?<\/p>\n

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Lake Henshaw offers opportunity “to” goose hunters or “for” goose hunters?<\/p>\n

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And then there is the humor most readers never get to see<\/strong>. A book titled The Best of the Rejection Collection<\/em> 10 years ago published 293 cartoons The New Yorker<\/em> had rejected, many of them from regular contributors. For example:<\/p>\n

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The Best of the Rejection Collection <\/em>consists of cartoons that “were too dumb, too dark, or too naughty for The New Yorker<\/em>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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