What’s brown and sticky? A STICK! But why do people find this joke funny? Why does it evoke a likely universal eye roll response? A recent preprint from Dr. Paul Silvia endeavored to answer these questions by analyzing over 32,000 jokes from the Reddit community dadjokes. You can read the preprint here.
New Scientist recently stumbled upon this preprint and summarized it in an article posted in late November.
If you are not satiated by the preprint and the article, here is something to ponder: What do you call a factory that makes okay products?
(A satisfactory.)
