Article: HISTORY WAS IT JOKES THAT DEFEATED COMMUNISM IN THE END? ASKS NOEL MALCOLM

Article: Communism no laughing matter, but jokes were
Winnipeg Free Press;  July 6, 2008 ;     594 words ...The Economist Jokes under Soviet communism were...the others will run away." Ben Lewis has collated some of the best, and best-known, jokes that were told under more than...laughing at just one of these jokes could mean you died in a labour camp; there are plenty of jokes about that ...

Article: The jokes that made Russia's leaders see red.(Television program review)
The Evening Standard (London, England);  October 11, 2006 ;     700+ words ......explore the communist book of jokes and extract from that doubtless...place to be. Our guide was Ben Lewis and his aim was to present...harder the times, the better the jokes, was the mantra and the times...world in his own image. As the jokes were introduced, via dramatised...of the ...

Article: Take these e-jokes, please
The Journal Record;  July 16, 1999 ;     700+ words ...How many jokes has Gary Lewis sent by e-mail over the last month? Like a lot of jokes that circulate on the Internet, it isn't even funny...Lewis said ruefully. "You start seeing the same jokes over and over again. So I try to do the right thing...

Article: Now BPO jokes!
PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.;  April 27, 2006 ;     608 words ...Now BPO jokes! Arvinder Kaur New Delhi, Apr 27 (PTI) As India...million pounds of cellulite annually!. These BPO jokes are the cool things doing round on the internet and mobile space these days. Jokes are a form of expression. When something is...

Article: Jokes as a projective technique: The humor of psychiatric patients
American Journal of Psychotherapy;  July 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ...This paper describes the use of jokes told by psychiatric patients as a projective...technique. The typical themes and styles of the jokes that were obtained are described, including...addition, the use of humor, especially jokes, as a projective procedure with both diagnostic...

Article: COLUMN: Political correctness shouldn't override good jokes
University Wire;  March 11, 2004 ;     661 words ......politically correct that about the only jokes you can make today, without risking a lawsuit...seen someone that isn't a white guy making jokes about them? About a thousand or more if...without angering some group. Women can make jokes about how guys act like little boys and...

Article: Heard the one about the man who says women just can't tell jokes?(Features)
The Mirror (London, England);  July 13, 2001 ;     617 words ...Byline: JIM MOORE MEN are better at telling jokes than women - because they have been cracking...University, Britain's first Professor of Jokes , says males have evolved to be better...for excitement and surprise. So they told jokes which are all about excitement and surprise...

Article: Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious: Humor as a Fundamental Emotional Experience
Psychoanalytic Dialogues;  September 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...This paper discusses the use of humor and jokes in psychoanalysis from both theoretical...work" and suggest that his interest in jokes brought him to the limits of the one-person...and an intersubjective understanding of jokes and humor. This contemporary perspective...

Article: Picking jokes is serious business
Evening News - Scotland;  November 1, 2001 ;     509 words ...IF the jokes in your Christmas crackers have you groaning...monitor by her workmates to vet thousands of jokes that will go into crackers this year - because...two weeks, Je Mai has read more than 9000 jokes to pick out those most suitable for families...

Article: All smiles.(collect your favorite jokes)
Fun For Kidz;  March 1, 2006 ;     373 words ......worry. Here's how you can collect your favorite jokes and riddles for your own book of laughs. Collecting...contain a disorganized collection of wonderful jokes. Here's what you can do: Circle the best jokes and copy them onto loose-leaf paper, putting...

Article: Swapping jokes on Di's death ruled tolerable
The Press;  December 27, 1997 ;     301 words ...WELLINGTON -- Jokes about Princess Diana's car crash death...Groen, of Lower Hutt, said the exchange of jokes about Princess Diana's death between Alliance...in a ruling released this week, that the jokes had not breached the Radio Code of Broadcasting...

Article: Book of jokes in Tamil by NSTP staff launched
New Straits Times;  February 23, 2001 ;     412 words ...New Straits Times 02-23-2001 Book of jokes in Tamil by NSTP staff launched Edition...look further for such thought-provoking jokes as the Siriyungal-Sintiyungal book in Tamil...MIC building today. The book contains 253 jokes with illustrations which are suitable for...

Article: MONOTONE SONATATHE CIRCULATION OF HIS JOKES ON THE WEB DILUTED STEVEN WRIGHT'S SIGNATURE HUMOR.(PREVIEW)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  November 1, 2001 ;     552 words ......Wright estimates that he's written about 800 jokes in his 20-year career. Half of them are...dn't even write,'' he said. ``Some of those jokes I wish I had written, but a lot of them...com), and I don't have a list of all my jokes on it, and I'm not going to put one on...

Article: Works of Sigmund Freud: 'Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious' (1905)
Monarch Notes;      409 words ...Freud, Sigmund Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 "Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious" (1905) The technique of jokes operates in a manner similar to the technique of the Dream-Work. Jokes employ the methods of condensation, displacement...