Re: metonymous factors (or not) in humour

On Jul 29, 6:14 pm, "John Briggs" <john.brig...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> FCS wrote:
> > On Jul 29, 5:54 pm, "John Briggs" <john.brig...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> FCS wrote:
>
> >>> --Can't be that difficult, it's not like they have preselection
> >>> boxes these days.
>
> >> Surely a pre-selector box makes it easier to drive?
>
> > I wouldn't know. I've neither driven a vehicle
> > with one nor an automatic. Double de-clutching
> > took a bit of time to get used to after a sycnhro-
>
> Do you always post on subjects you know nothing about?

I know this joke exists and has done for 25 years
or so.

I can reword it without the pre-selector box detail
if you would prefer. It makes no odds as to what I
was hoping for some informed discussion about--ie.,
when the joke first went to "air" and what can be
said concerning the cultural factors and assumptions
people made that render it humourous at first contact.

But a trolleybous can, obviously, only go where there
are overhead lines to power it. And I hadn't learned
to drive when I first heard the joke.

Any other Grices whilst we're here old chap?

> --
> John Briggs

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