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Humor in humans is the equivalent of mating dances in birds.
Bird's mating dances were their level-of-evolution's cutting
edge, the first time there had ever been ritualized
communication between individuals to that extent. At the
human level of evolution the mating dance happens between
the
two halves of the brain of an individual, when the
individual gets a joke, or sees something funny in a situation or
makes and invention. Ideas use the two halves of human
brains as a stage on which to do a mating dance until, with the
recognition of novelty, they procreate and produce a new
idea.
I saw this clearly in the eyebrows of Tom Snyder, a talk show
host from the 1990s. On his show it was the custom to fill the
camera up with his face as he listened to the guest, and when
the guest said something funny, Tom Snyder's eyebrows would
do this little mating dance that was truely the most amazing
thing. The energy would ripple back and forth between the
two halves of the face and make those eyebrows look just like
two head butting gazells.
So the idea would be to make little decorative eyebrow
antlers so that this mating dance between the eyebrows upon
the recognition of novelty in the environment would have a
bit of a retro flair and refer back to the first mating dances
among animals.
Tom Snyder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Snyder [JesusHChrist, Nov 18 2005]
The Tomorrow Show
http://www.innavoy....unds_tom_snyder.htm [JesusHChrist, Nov 18 2005]
Slugbrows
Slugbrows [gorjabuble, Nov 18 2005]
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Some of us just liked Tom because he made a good colortini. |
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For a moment I thought Farmer John was back. |
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I wear full sized antlers out on the town, and I still cannot pick up any women. And I'm SURE it has nothing to do with my crappy personality. |
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maybe your'e just going to the wrong bars. |
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:) I am wondering what the hell it says about me that I bun these silly eyebrow inventions? It's as if I am unhappy with my current pair and looking for just about *anything* else to take their place. WTF? |
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I will await JHC's next idea, which is based on the true meaning of a unabrow.... |
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Off topic; Update. FJ has completed his project of compiing his ideas, in book form, and I for one hope to someday walk into a bookstore and see it on the shelf. |
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On topic; Jesus, I love this idea! Great presentation. Bravo.+ |
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