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...Known to undergraduates as the David Letterman-esque professor of Science A-35, "Matter in the Universe," Kirshner lightens the atmosphere in his cluttered office with a steady stream of jokes. After a one-liner about slacker students and a quip about make-up exams, he quickly turns to the matter at hand--attempting to distinguish astronomy from astrology...
...biology suggests that humanity has special status. Virtually every other type of animal comes in multiple varieties: dozens of species of monkeys, antelopes, whales and hawks walk, swim or fly the earth, to say nothing of beetles, whose hundreds of thousands of species inspired biologist J.B.S. Haldane's famous quip that God must have had "an inordinate fondness" for them. Even our closest kin, the great apes, fall into four species, divided into several subspecies...
...worst wasn't even the revolting tale of the "Greaseman," a white disk jockey in Washington who was fired for appending a vile quip to a portion of a song by multiple Grammy Award-winning hip-hop singer Lauryn Hill: "No wonder people drag them behind trucks...
...future politician trying to balance out the two factions in her party: those who believe in everything--gray aliens, the Gnomes of Zurich and every other conspiracy theory that slithers across the Net--and those who believe in absolutely nothing unless you can tie it in to a snide quip about The Brady Bunch. Maybe Abbie Hoffman saw this coming and just didn't want to have to think about...
...borrowed from a late novel by Mary McCarthy, who lifted the name from Audubon's celebrated book of avian engravings. But Moore might as well have used Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, Freud's classic essay on humor. The bemused and angry women in Birds defiantly quip their way through trouble. "When I'm sleeping with someone, I'm less obsessed with the mail," says a lonely ex-film star. A reluctant wife explains her conjugal state with the comment, "I married my husband because I thought it would be a great way to meet guys." Moore...