Do Men Have a Better Sense of
Humor,
or Just a Weirder One?
or Just a Weirder One?
Recently my
husband and I were discussing what makes something funny, and whether something
being funny could ever be offensive. He thought that if something was truly
funny, it couldn’t be offensive, and someone who thought it wasn’t funny had no
sense of humor. I thought that it always depended on where one was in relation
to the object of the joke.
Came a case
study today. My husband tells me the following joke someone told him once.
Mickey
Mantle takes his teammates Whitey Ford and Billy Martin hunting in his home
state of Oklahoma. Mickey thinks the best hunting will be on his friend’s land,
so they go to the friend’s house, where Mickey says he should go in and
ask permission, as a courtesy, since he
knows the friend will say yes, while Whitey and Billy stay outside.
Mickey and
his friend exchange greetings, and the friend says that of course they can hunt
on his property. But Mickey could do him a favor. The friend’s favorite horse is
old and sick, and really should be put down, but he just doesn’t have the heart
to shoot him himself. Could Mickey shoot the horse for him? Of course, Mickey
says.
When he
joins Whitey and Billy, however, he decides to play a little joke on them. “That
son of a bitch,” he reports, “he won’t let us hunt here. I don’t know why he’s
being such a shit. I’ve got to get even with him.”
He points to
the old horse in the paddock next to the house. “That’s his favorite horse.
I’ve got a good mind to shoot him.”
“Don’t do
that,” Whitey says. “We can go hunt somewhere else.”
“No,”
Mickey insists. “I’m going to shoot his horse.” And while he and Whitey
continue to argue over whether Mickey will shoot the horse, they hear gunshots.
Billy is shooting the friend’s cattle.
I grimaced.
How stupid, I thought. Yet my husband was laughing. “Of course,” I said, “that
is only funny if you think men are really stupid.” Yes, my husband said, still
chuckling.
I'm with you....don't get the humor in that one!
ReplyDeleteI don't get it either. Not offensive and not funny. :-)
ReplyDeleteI don't get it either. Not offensive and not funny. :-)
ReplyDeleteit's the whole category of "practical jokes" that is usually just not funny.
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