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20071002 Tuesday October 02, 2007
Old People Lose Their Sense of Humor Humor

Recent research shows that as you get older you lose your sense of humor.  Quoting the article:

 

Humor comprehension in older adults functions in a different fashion than humor comprehension in younger adults. The researchers studied older adults from a university subject pool as well as undergraduate students. The subjects participated in tests that indicated their ability to complete jokes accurately as well as tests that indicated their cognitive capabilities in areas of abstract reasoning, short-term memory, and cognitive flexibility. Overall, older adults demonstrated lower performance on both tests of cognitive ability as well as tests of humor comprehension than did younger adults.

 

If you need more proof, look no further than this blog.  Aging Led Zeppelin fans are still trying to lynch me with a cactus for that posting.  They would have caught me, too, but the tennis balls kept falling off their walkers.

I think the real issue isn't how good Zeppelin is or was, but that by recognizing that the band is now old, then they, the fans, are also old.  No one wants to face that.

Of course they are not that old, but if people can give me Depends for my 30th birthday then I can make fun of Zeppelin 30 years after they last toured in the US.  It's the law - look it up.


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Hmm. Explains why my mother-in-law does not have an sense of humor.

Posted by Pam on October 02, 2007 at 03:02 PM PDT #

People need to lighten up and appreciate the limited amount of wit left on this increasing bitter planet.

Posted by Skrocki on October 02, 2007 at 04:54 PM PDT #

yo man whats up now go out there and rock!!!!!!!!!
rock on man

Posted by cody on April 28, 2008 at 03:53 PM PDT #

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