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Making Humor

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Day
23
Month
December
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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"The rules for the manufacture of humor," said the professor, "are very simple- that is, of course, some kinds of humor. Ordinary comic paper humor may be made by taking a plain statement of fact or a plain statement of something that isn't fact- in fact, any old statement - and misspelling it. It's the simplest thing in the world. If you refer to the man in the moon, and spell it that way, it is plain, ordinary dull prose, but if you make it read 'the mann in the mune,' it is nothing less than bright, scintillating wit." Shortly thereafter the professor was promoted to the department of magazine humor, where nothing but

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Ann Arbor Register