And surely sneeze, hiccup 'n burp alike too

Because everything is fodder for achieving a phd credential,
including:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21616

On Jul 19, 12:00 pm, Robert Cohen msn.com> wrote:

I was walking through the Getty Center recently and mused on how we
have perhaps been pushed too hard by the artists, and perhaps more so
by their modern collectors towards the idea that art is serious...

On Jul 19, 3:00 pm, Robert Cohen msn.com> wrote:

"More popular among modern theorists is the "incongruity theory" of
joking, which sees humor and laughter stemming from the inappropriate
mixing of categories or registers of meaning ("Work is the curse of
the drinking classes," as Oscar Wilde quipped). Or, as Kant put it
more opaquely in the Critique of Judgment, a joke arises "from the
sudden transformation of a strained expectation into nothing."

ha!

On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:00:51 -0700, Robert Cohen wrote:

humm

and his friend Bigus Dickus...

re: humor, irony, absurdity, and linking a super-creative, insightful
essay about some similarities of Israelis & Persians

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1003236.html

On Jul 20, 2:47 pm, Robert Cohen msn.com> wrote:

There's no two ways about it: The problem is that the Iranians have
some irrational nutcase leaders..

They still stone people to death for example.

On Jul 20, 4:50 pm, turtoni fastmail.net> wrote:

I haven't found any examples of recent stonings. They normally hang
people to death by using a crane (this could be judged less extreme
than snapping the neck, as we do in our culture.)

The Haaretz op-ed is beautiful. I disagree that the Iranians have
nutcases as their leaders. As the op-ed states, they maybe have less
democracy than they deserve, but some people have had a tough life.

On Jul 22, 12:01 am, Cormagh yahoo.com> wrote: