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Well, here's my favorite story of the day. A Saudi prince had 80 falcons that he wanted to relocate or possibly take on vacation. The story's a little unclear. But he bought airplane seats for all 80 of his falcons. Now of course they were tied to little stands so the falcons couldn't fly around inside the plane.
But here's a question I ask. Suppose the plane lost its engines but the falcons, feeling that the plane was going down, all started flapping in unison. Could they lift the plane? No, of course not. Not only because they're not strong enough, but they're inside the plane and so all of their actions would be confined to inside, so it wouldn't really work.
But do you know how jokes work? Yeah, this isn't about the joke. It's about the mechanism for a joke. Here's what makes a joke funny: something that your brain feels makes sense but also knows it doesn't. That's a joke. When there's something about the situation that sort of kind of makes sense, but the rest of your brain says no it doesn't, no it doesn't. But you can't get it out of your head. The two of them live there at the same time and that causes a little reflex called laugh.
Here's a better joke about that. Rocky M
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anicotti tweeted about my story about the 80 falcons in the plane and he said, imagine being a bird that died in a plane crash. That would be the worst way to go if you were a bird. You know, if I were not inside this plane, things would be going pretty, pretty well for me. That's Larry David saying "pretty, pretty well." So I'll just start with that. Meanwhile, in the law of unintended consequen…
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