Have you seen the Muffin post on YouTube? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpwMQ1sj9cU , Check it out. By itself, it's not that funny, but when you look at the hundreds of other people who have also made the exact same video it starts to be the funniest damn thing you've ever seen.
That makes sense to me, I remember in high school the horror with which we first heard our teacher's tales of her girlhood in Hungary. The most horrific story was of her friend who was run over by a tank. Not funny. However, the 563rd time we heard it....well, let's just say there were weight loss comments, road kill comments and "just slide her under the door" comments. Sick? yes. Wrong? absolutely. Funny? you bet your ass.
Everything gets funnier after you've seen it over and over and over again. It's the HBO effect. The first time you saw Taladega Nights you probably thought it was the dumbest movie ever made but after catching it at the same point six times in a row you start to giggle. That Will Ferrell is actually part squirell which makes everything he does funnier.
It seems that in this "sound bite" laden culture we are so inundated with stimuli that to actually get to our funny bone repetition goes a long way. To that end I will be running this same post for the next 63 days.
I already laughed, so I think the 63 day thing may be overrated!
Posted by: The Gal Across the Street | July 21, 2007 at 10:01 PM