http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southerncomedy/ southerncomedy Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:33:26 GMT edwardhrst http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southerncomedy/message/7 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southerncomedy/message/7 Most humor is based on incongruence. Twain here produced an incongruence between tone and content.Twain often used elevated language in contrast to subject. Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:21:37 GMT edwardhrst http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southerncomedy/message/6 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southerncomedy/message/6 Yes, it is a play on the word "find". Then you have the basic triple repetition. The one thing to keep in mind for this joke is the idea of comic perspective Sat, 29 Jan 2005 16:41:43 GMT Sheila Moss http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southerncomedy/message/5 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southerncomedy/message/5 Urg! I'm not sure what I am supposed to be doing here. However, I guess you are asking what sort of technique this is? It seems to be classic setup and punch Sat, 29 Jan 2005 01:39:54 GMT edwardhrst http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southerncomedy/message/4 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southerncomedy/message/4 A man is stumbling through the woods totally drunk when he comes upon a preacher baptizing people in the river. He proceeds to walk into the water and Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:04:33 GMT edwardhrst http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southerncomedy/message/3 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southerncomedy/message/3 By temperament, which is the real law of God, many men are goats and can't help committing adultery when they get a chance; whereas there are numbers of men Sat, 22 Jan 2005 19:47:41 GMT edwardhrst http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southerncomedy/message/2 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southerncomedy/message/2 I am posting the piece and beginning the analysis for the first post. Hope this makes sense to someone. Placing a harness on bees is an absurd action. It may Sat, 22 Jan 2005 19:28:21 GMT edwardhrst http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southerncomedy/message/1 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southerncomedy/message/1 This is an excerpt from a column I wrote. Earl is my father and he is wanting to up the production level of his bees. Earl decided if the bees would work