jokes, enrich, functioning, Ying and Yang

Iran To Continue Enriching Uranium
Tehran sees no reason to allow inspectors at a site where work on nuclear weapons is suspected.

45% of Afghanistan, Iraq Vets Seek Disability
The number is far higher than the government anticipated, amounting to more than double the 1990s Gulf War.

10 Arrested in $1 Billion L.I.R.R. Disability Scheme

By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM 2 minutes ago

Ten people were arrested and charged Thursday in a massive fraud scheme in which hundreds of Long Island Rail Road workers made false disability pension claims.

Types of jokes

Jokes often depend on the humour of the unexpected, the mildly taboo (which can include the distasteful or socially improper), or playing off stereotypes and other cultural beliefs. Many jokes fit into more than one category.

Subjects

Political jokes are usually a form of satire. They generally concern politicians and heads of state, but may also cover the absurdities of a country's political situation. A prominent example of political jokes would be political cartoons. Two large categories of this type of jokes exist. The first one makes fun of a negative attitude to political opponents or to politicians in general. The second one makes fun of political clichés, mottoes, catch phrases or simply blunders of politicians. Some, especially the "you have two cows" genre, derive humour from comparing different political systems.
Professional humour includes caricatured portrayals of certain professions such as lawyers, and in-jokes told by professionals to each other.
Mathematical jokes are a form of in-joke, generally designed to be understandable only by insiders. (They are also often strictly visual jokes.)
Ethnic jokes exploit ethnic stereotypes. They are often racist and frequently considered offensive.
For example, the British tell jokes starting "An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman..." which exploit the supposed parsimony of the Scot, stupidity of the Irish or rigid conventionality of the English. Such jokes exist among numerous peoples.
Racially offensive humour is often considered funny, but similar jokes based on other stereotypes (such as blonde jokes) are often considered even more funny.
Religious jokes fall into several categories:

• Jokes based on stereotypes associated with people of religion (e.g. nun jokes, priest jokes, or rabbi jokes)
• Jokes on classical religious subjects: crucifixion, Adam and Eve, St. Peter at The Gates, etc.
• Jokes that collide different religious denominations: "A rabbi, a medicine man, and a pastor went fishing..."
• Letters and addresses to God.

Self-deprecating or self-effacing humour is superficially similar to racial and stereotype jokes, but involves the targets laughing at themselves. It is said to maintain a sense of perspective and to be powerful in defusing confrontations. Probably the best-known and most common example is Jewish humour. The egalitarian tradition was strong among the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe in which the powerful were often mocked subtly. Prominent members of the community were kidded during social gatherings, part a good-natured tradition of humour as a levelling device. A similar situation exists in the Scandinavian "Ole and Lena" joke.
Self-deprecating humour has also been used by politicians, who recognise its ability to acknowledge controversial issues and steal the punch of criticism - for example, when Abraham Lincoln was accused of being two-faced he replied, "If I had two faces, do you think this is the one I’d be wearing?".
Dirty jokes are based on taboo, often sexual, content or vocabulary. The definitive studies on them have been written by Gershon Legman.
Other taboos are challenged by sick jokes and gallows humour; to joke about disability is considered in this group.
Surrealist or minimalist jokes exploit semantic inconsistency, for example: Q: What's red and invisible? A: No tomatoes..
Anti-jokes are jokes that are not funny in regular sense, and often can be decidedly unfunny, but rely on the let-down from the expected joke to be funny in itself.^{[citation needed]} A question was: 'What is the difference between a dead bird ?. The answer came: "His right leg is as different as his left one'. An elephant joke is a joke, almost always a riddle or conundrum and often a sequence of connected riddles, that involves an elephant.
Jokes involving non-sequitur humour, with parts of the joke being unrelated to each other; e.g. "My uncle once punched a man so hard his legs became trombones", from the Mighty Boosh TV series.

2009年 09月 01日 14:33

中美關係的陰陽之道
The Ying and Yang of...

	化生萬物的兩種元素，即陰氣、陽氣。易經˙繫辭上：「陰陽不測之謂神。」西遊記˙第九回：「人生於天地之間，稟陰陽而資五行，盡由父生母養。豈有為人在世而無父母者乎？」
	根據四時、節氣、方位、星象來講人事吉凶的數術。南朝梁˙劉勰˙文心雕龍˙正緯：「於是伎數之士附於詭術，或說陰陽，或序災異。」三國演義˙第四十六回：「為將而不通天文，不識地利，不知奇門，不曉陰陽，不看陣圖，不明兵勢，是庸才也。」
	舊時專門替人占卜，看風水，擇日等的人。金瓶梅˙第六回：「陰陽宣念經畢，揭起千秋旛，扯開白絹。」。儒林外史˙第四回：「次日請將陰陽徐先生來寫了七單。老太太是犯三七，到期該請僧人追薦。」亦稱為「陰陽生」、「陰陽人」。
	電磁中的陰極和陽極。

Ying and Yang

n.
(Chinese philosophy) the two fundamental principles, one negative, dark, passive, cold, wet, and feminine (yin) and the other (yang) positive, bright, active, dry, hot and masculine. The interactions and balance of these forces in people and nature influence their behavior and fate. [RHUD]

COLD JOKE?
Anti-humor (or anti-comedy) and anti-jokes^[1] (also known as unjokes) are a kind of humor based on the surprise factor of absence of an expected joke or of a punch line in a narration which is set up as a joke.

disability

• [dìsəbíləti]

[名]

1 [U]（病気・事故などによる）無（能）力. ▼inabilityは自己の能力を越えているための不能：inability to pay支払い不能.

2 身体障害

on disability
障害手当を受ける.

3 [U]法的無能力, 無資格.


 The term ‘disability’ is usually used for a person who is not in a position to perform like a normal human being. New Oxford Dictionary explains it as people with a permanent illness or injury that makes it difficult for them to move part of their body completely and easily. It essentially implies loss or lack of functioning, physical or mental, which unlike illness is usually permanent. It has been classified in five major types which are disability in (a) seeing, (b) speech, (c) hearing, (d) movement and (e) mental.