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[1] Folklorist Vance Randolph described the Wampus cat as "a kind of amphibious panther which leaps into the water and swims like a colossal mink." [2] The Wampus cat was mentioned in newspaper accounts of the 1930s in the Piedmont of North Carolina. The creature was accused of killing livestock.
Vaudeville words can be found in Neil Simon's 1972 play The Sunshine Boys, in which an aging comedian gives a lesson to his nephew on comedy, saying that words with k sounds are funny: [1] Fifty-seven years in this business, you learn a few things. You know what words are funny and which words are not funny. Alka Seltzer is funny.
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Do you think you have a good vocabulary? We can guarantee you've probably never heard these funny words before. The post 100 Funny Words You Probably Don’t Know appeared first on Reader's Digest.
smog, from smoke and fog [2] smothercate, from smother and suffocate [2] Snowmageddon, from snow and Armageddon [2] solemncholy, from solemn and melancholy [2] splatter, from splash and spatter [5] squarson, from squire and parson [2] squirl, from squiggle and twirl or whirl [2] stash, from store or stow and cache [5] staycation, from stay and ...
One barn is equal to 1.0 × 10 −28 m 2. The name derives from the folk expressions "As big as a barn," and "Couldn't hit the broad side of a barn", used by particle accelerator physicists to refer to the probability of achieving a collision between particles. For nuclear purposes, 1.0 × 10 −28 m 2 is actually rather large. [25]
An edition of American humor magazine Crazy, Man, Crazy from 1956. A humor magazine is a magazine specifically designed to deliver humorous content to its readership. These publications often offer satire and parody, but some also put an emphasis on cartoons, caricature, absurdity, one-liners, witty aphorisms, surrealism, neuroticism, gelotology, emotion-regulating humor, and/or humorous essays.
The reliable sources that describe the science of "funny words" here [1] [2] [3] refer to a single paper by Chris Westbury et al. which describes "perceived humor" (not inherent humor) as "a quantifiable function of how far NWs [non-words] are from being words", [4] so the entire concept of "inherently funny words" seems based on a ...