Fri May 21 1999 07:45:
As long as I'm adding NYCB entries, Jake thinks that my jokes (see
some previous entry or other for this month) should remain unsolved.
Thus is born a new kind of joke, funny not because they make some
kind of twisted comparison, but because they are, on another level,
a joke schema for such jokes. In this way, comparisons so
twisted that they cannot be used in first-order jokes at all (because
nothing fits) can be appreciated as second-order humor.
Jake was also disappointed by The Phantom Menace, as he fully expected to be. I understand where he's coming from, but mantain that it rocked me like a medium-grade hurricane.
My word for today is "schema". Schema schema schema schema! I'm a schema, baby, I'm a dreama.
