[Sheflug] Re: Network

[Richard Ibbotson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve

> What kind of an answer is that to a perfectly civil question?


Since the Hitch Hikers guide to the galaxy isn't yet available on 
this planet I might point you towards the subject of humour and 
Rogit's Thissurus.......


842. Wit.
N. wit, humour, wittiness; sense of humour; attic wit, 
attic salt; atticism[obs3]; salt, esprit, point, fancy, whim, 
drollery, pleasantry. farce, buffoonery, fooling, tomfoolery; 
shenanigan [U.S.], harlequinade &c.  599[obs3]; broad farce, broad 
humour; fun, espieglerie[Fr]; vis comica[Lat].  jocularity; jocosity, 
jocoseness[obs3]; facetiousness; waggery, waggishness; whimsicality; 
comicality &c.  853. banter, badinage, retort, repartee, smartness, 
ready wit, quid-pro- quo; ridicule &c.  856. jest, joke, jape, jibe; 
facetiae[Lat], levity, quips and cranks; capital joke; canorae 
nugae[Lat]; standing jest, standing joke, private joke, conceit, 
quip, quirk, crank, quiddity, concetto[obs3], plaisanterie[Fr], 
brilliant idea; merry thought, bright thought, happy thought; sally; 
flash of wit, flash of merriment; scintillation; mot[Fr], mot pour 
rire [French]; witticism, smart 
saying,bon-mot,jeud'esprit[Fr],epigram; jest book; dry joke, 
quodlibet, cream of the  jest. word-play, jeu de mots[Fr]; play of 
words, play upon words; pun, punning; double entente, double entendre 
&c. (ambiguity)  520[Fr]; quibble, verbal quibble; conundrum &c. 
(riddle)  533; anagram, acrostic, double acrostic, trifling, idle 
conceit, turlupinade|. old joke, tired joke, flat joke, Joe Miller|!. 
V. joke, jest, crack a joke, make a joke, jape, cut jokes; perpetrate 
a joke; pun, perpetrate a pun; make fun of, make merry with; kid, kid 
around, fool around; set the table in a roar &c. (amuse)  840. 
retort; banter &c. (ridicule)  856; ridentem dicere verum[Lat]; joke 
at one's expense. take in jest. 
 
V. desire; wish, wish for; be desirous &c. adj. have a longing &c. 
n.; hope &c.  858. 
 
[make a joke which is not funny] bomb, fall flat; go over like a lead 
balloon. Adj. witty, attic; quick-witted, nimble-witted; smart; 
jocular, jocose, humorous; facetious, waggish, whimsical; kidding, 
joking, puckish; playful &c.  840; merry and wise; pleasant, 
sprightly, light, spirituel[obs3], sparkling, epigrammatic, full of 
point, ben trovato[It]; comic &c.  853. zany, madcap. funny, amusing 
&c. (amusement)  840. Adv. jokingly, in joke, in jest, in sport, in 
play. Phr. adhibenda est in jocando moderatio[Lat][obs3]; "gentle 
dullness ever loves a joke" [Pope]; "leave this keen encounter of our 
wits" [Richard III]; just joking, just kidding; "surely you jest!". 
 


-- 
Richard

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