Do Astro People Have a Sense of Humour

[rainwatcher]

Hi all, i would like to ask if you think you have a sense of humour and what you think of your fellow astro nuts.

[astroron]

I voted Yes to both:D
But Bah Humbug!!! not another b***** Poll. :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
Cheers :thumbsup:

[AstralTraveller]

How could you be an astronomer and not have a sense of humour?? I mean, there are so many times that if you didn't laugh you'd cry. Take last Saturday for instance. I set up the scope and camera about 10 because it looked to be clearing. By the time I finished it was 100% cloud. When it started to clear again at 12 I dragged my desktop computer out too (I don't own a laptop). I then stood around until 2.30 looking at cloud. And if there was another eclipse next week I'd do it all again. You have to laugh.

[supernova1965]

I have a Medium sense of humour not a strong one but it takes alot for me to laugh out loud

[TrevorW]

I have a twisted wicked sense of humour (very liberal/open minded) but I sometimes have doubts about other people, sometimes IMO they take things to seriously and lifes too short for that.

names withheld to protect the innocent

[sjastro]

People with a sense of humour should consult an ophthalmologist.

Steven

[Omaroo]

Everyone has their own sense of humour. Maybe not everyone thinks the same things are funny that you do. Now there's a thought... ;) Let's not generalise, as some of us tend to, on people's sensibilities - everyone's different. For example I rarely, if ever, saw a smile on my father's face or a laugh come from him - yet he was one of the very funniest people I ever knew. Too dry for most, they simply couldn't see it. He thought that was funny in itself.

Are those who laugh more often are often just more easily amused? If you laugh easily at slapstick humour does that indicate a strong sense? It bores me to tears, but I find the utterly ridiculous (read - ridiculous, not idiotic) side-splitting - the Three Stooges vs Monty Python a case in point.

[Baddad]

A person without a sense of humour is like a wagon without springs. It feels every jolt on the road of life.

AND one from Winston Churchhill;

A joke is a very serious thing.

I do have a strong valency to people who like to laugh. I assume that places me in the catagory of strong sense of humour.

The girls at the local IGA supermarket or the bank start laughing as soon as they see me walk in the door. ( They are laughing with me)

Cheers

[TrevorW]

Isn't that what I generalised ;)

[ZeroID]

If I didn't laugh I'd have to cry ...and that ain't no fun at all.

[telemarker]

No.

[GeoffW1]

:rofl:That's a brittle sense of humor :lol::lol::lol:

[sjastro]

My ophthalmologist told me she wanted to talk to me about my aqueous humour, I told her I don't tell jokes under water.

Fortunately she laughed.:lol:

Regards

Steven

[multiweb]

You're lucky. It could have ended like Trev's avatar. ;)

[TrevorW]

be careful with that stick you may poke an .... out

:thumbsup:

[GeoffW1]

:rofl:Mine told me my vitreous humor was very good

[bloodhound31]

None that I am aware of.

[mill]

Someone please explain to me what this thing called humor is but tell it in a humorous way because it is funny to be told that humor should not be explained :P

[Kevnool]

Some of the posts i read here on ISS tell me not all have a sense of humor.

Which in turn make me laugh.

Cheers

[sheeny]

I don't. I have someone else's.:rofl:


:thumbsup:

Nothing wrong with a bit of thinking man's humour!;) ...and yes, without a sense of humour in astronomy, you'd slit your wrists way too often.

Al.

[AstralTraveller]

You get around in that get-up and yet claim to not have a sense of humor?? :poke: :D

[ballaratdragons]

I have.
Most of my fellow Astronomers do, the good folk at camp do, but unfortunately in the past I have met some of the saddest dried-up prunes in this hobby that you never wish to meet!

So I would say, in general, most do, but some don't. Same as society as a whole :thumbsup:

What a ridiculous thread :lol:

[jjjnettie]

Humour is relative.
What may be hilarious to you might be highly offensive to me.

[erick]

Laughing probably elevates the blood pressure - better stay away from it. :sadeyes:

[PeterM]

Most amateurs do but some are just plain old... well just plain old.

Hmmmm ok, I will be the "smart rrrrrrrrrrs" is it Humour or Humor?
Is my post humourous, humorous or offensive?

Fritz Zwicky had a great term for some of his fellow astronomers at Mt Wilson, calling them "spherical b******s" that is they were b******s everyway he looked at them, humourous/humorous or offensive? I think he meant it to be offensive but I see it as humourous/humorous...

Odd thread really but it is cloudy and I have had a cc and coke or 2.

In discovering a Supernova I can see the funnyside of inhabitants of a nearby planet saying "what the $^*(* was that?" Ok Ok, they were all fried long before, but go with the humour/humor.

JJJ is right humour/humor is relative 'cause my dad was a clown...hehehe

Ah B....... was edited out automatically, well that's fair enough.
And now the howls, howells, houls ? Too much cc

Here is a neat site for some Astro humour/humor
http://home.g-net.net/~andy/astrohum.htm

[TrevorW]

Your right JJ I find all my relatives humourous and sometimes offensive to me :P:thumbsup:

"An emotional man may possess no humour but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten"- Constance Rourke

[bloodhound31]

What's wrong with my yowie suit? I go shopping in it, attend church in it and the occasional court-appearance in it. I don't see why I couldn't get married in it. :poke:

I'm off now to see if I can find my AWOL sense of humor...

[GeoffW1]

Well,

I dunno about the grammar side of it, but what sjastro and I were joking about was the humor inside yer eyeball :scared2:

To me, this thread is about humour and being humorous, although it seemed to disappear pretty quickly :(

Cheers

[GrampianStars]

Humorous jokes are by nonessential, amusing facetious persons ;)
However they do awaken amusement and pleasure in me. :thumbsup:

[Jen]

mmmm me have a sense of humour........ :question: oh hell yes :rofl::rofl:
If my ribs wernt sore from laughing so much at Snake Valley Camp every year then i dont know what happend to them :lol: I love my astro buddies :P


Laughter is the best medicine for me :D

[DavidU]

Lol

[TrevorW]

As to the future only one thing that is certain, there will be humour.

"I don't think there is any subject which cannot be funny" -Peter Cook

[Brundah1]

I think by virtue of persistence and frustration anyone still here must be an "Astro Nut" and therefore exercise their funny bones regularly.

Even if its because they just bumped them raising a glass! :rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Ric]

You have to have a sense of humour in this game otherwise you would go mad. :screwy:

I think all members here have a good sense of humour, you just have to read between the lines to see it sometimes. :thumbsup:

My sense of humour comes from too many years of Monty Python, Goodies, Benny Hill, The Two Ronnies etc. I can see something amusing in just about anything. ;) ;)

My outlook can sometimes cause raised eyebrows in managers meetings, now that lot really don't have a sense of humour or a life. :rofl::rofl: