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  2. Self-referential humor - Wikipedia

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    Self-referential humor, also known as self-reflexive humor, self-aware humor, or meta humor, is a type of comedic expression [1] that—either directed toward some other subject, or openly directed toward itself—is self-referential in some way, intentionally alluding to the very person who is expressing the humor in a comedic fashion, or to some specific aspect of that same comedic expression.

  3. You have two cows - Wikipedia

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    The setup of a typical joke of this kind is the assumption that the listener lives within a given system and has two cows, a very relatable occupation across countries and national boundaries. The punch line is what happens to the listener and the cows in the system; it offers a brief and humorous take on the subject or locale.

  4. Spherical cow - Wikipedia

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    References to the joke appear even outside the field of scientific modeling. "Spherical Cow" was chosen as the code name for the Fedora 18 Linux distribution . [ 14 ] In the sitcom The Big Bang Theory , a joke is told by Dr. Leonard Hofstadter with the punchline mentioning "spherical chickens in a vacuum", in " The Cooper-Hofstadter ...

  5. Metaphor - Wikipedia

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    A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. [1] It may provide (or obscure) clarity or identify ...

  6. Elephant in the room - Wikipedia

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    Elephant joke – Type of absurd joke involving an elephant; Elephant test – Classification based on observable evidence; Ironic process theory ("Don't think of a pink elephant") Nigger in the woodpile – Expression indicating something suspicious or wrong

  7. List of English-language metaphors - Wikipedia

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    A list of metaphors in the English language organised alphabetically by type. A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea; e.g., "Her eyes were glistening jewels".

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  9. Sad clown paradox - Wikipedia

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    The joke also appears in the closing lines of Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay, "The Comic," collected in Letters and Social Aims (1875); [47] Emerson's comedian is named Carlini. The poem was then seen as a story in the 1910s, again, with the performer called 'Grimaldi', [ 48 ] and again from the 1930s, [ 49 ] featuring a clown called 'Grock ...