Posts Tagged ‘humour’
“You mean my whole fallacy is wrong”, from Annie Hall (1977), directed by Woody Allen “Marshall McLuhan was a skeptic, a joker, and an erudite maniac. He read too deeply from Finnegans Wake, had too great a fondness for puns, and never allowed his fun to be ruined by the adoption of a coherent point of view. […]
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McLuhan Galaxy 
Marshall McLuhan’s Use of Jokes and Humour
Jokes Are Based on Grievances “Today young people are in the habit of saying, ‘Humor is not cool’”. The old fashioned joke with its story line has given way to conundrum, e.g.: ‘What is purple and hums?’ Answer: ‘An electric grape.’ ‘Why does it hum?’ ‘Because it doesn’t know the words!’ This kind of joke […]
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