Wet and Dry

17 Feb 2008

Before all you car body repairmen get too excited this is nothing to do with sandpaper or emery paper!
I’d like to pose a question about humour.
There’s dry humour and there’s wet humour.
Dry (IMHO) tends to be:
- understated
- sometimes cryptic and needs to be ‘realised’ by the observer
- can be really, really funny as a consequence
- but also can fall on stoney ground
- more associated with the male psyche (just my opinion)
- doesn’t expose the humour monger to ridicule i.e. safer
Wet tends to be:
- more obvious
- can also be really funny
- but can also make the humorist appear really pathetic
I have three questions.
1) Which type of humour do you enjoy reading on the forum?
2) Which type of humour do you enjoy being part of a conversation?
3) Which type do you think you tend to convey?
Generally I think I prefer witnessing Dry humour whether it be written or verbal. But if yer gonna try it when I’m pissed make it wet otherwise it’ll go straight over me head.
I think I purvey a mixture of humour types (who just said ‘What Humour?’ !!!! smackbottom

) but on the whole it tends to be wet redface

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17 Feb 2008

1. Dry
2. Dry
3. Don't know really dunno

17 Feb 2008

dry,dry and dry with a little bit of wet thrown in lol

17 Feb 2008

Quote by Freckledbird
1. Dry
2. Dry
3. Don't know really

Thanks :notes:
That answer sounds a bit like the rhythm of a foxtrot.
Jeez you read (and type and make up yer mind!) quick woman!! wink

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17 Feb 2008

Quote by westerross
1. Dry
2. Dry
3. Don't know really

Thanks :notes:
That answer sounds a bit like the rhythm of a foxtrot.
Jeez you read (and type and make up yer mind!) quick woman!! wink

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And that's a problem? :lol:

17 Feb 2008

I like all types of humour, I just like to be made to laugh rotflmao

, but I fear that I may only exhibit wet humour....(hopes she is not coming across on the forums as a silly, pathetic wuman!)

17 Feb 2008

Dry.
Maybe slightly damp at times lol

Talking of things going over your head- I'm thinking of the quip regarding someone mentioning they were 6' twice.
Splendid got it rolleyes

17 Feb 2008

Quote by Bonedigger
I like all types of humour, I just like to be made to laugh , but I fear that I may only exhibit wet humour....(hopes she is not coming across on the forums as a silly, pathetic wuman!)

Don't be so moist! wink

Oh and you don't (come across like that!)
Besides, moist in certain circumstances can be a really good thing and wet can be even better!
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17 Feb 2008

Quote by westerross
I like all types of humour, I just like to be made to laugh , but I fear that I may only exhibit wet humour....(hopes she is not coming across on the forums as a silly, pathetic wuman!)

Don't be so moist! wink

Oh and you don't (come across like that!)
Besides, moist in certain circumstances can be a really good thing and wet can be even better!
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awww tune passionkiss

assionkiss: loves ya to hun biggrin

17 Feb 2008

Damn! Did I forget the third category - Smutty?
Naahhh - that (mine) was just wet wasn't it?
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17 Feb 2008

Quote by westerross
Damn! Did I forget the third category - Smutty?
Naahhh - that was just wet wasn't it?
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smutty humour....now THATS the kind of humour I like biggrin

17 Feb 2008

Dry or wet depends on my mood!! biggrin

17 Feb 2008

Whilst I'm here.....
am I the only person who can find a Double Entendre in just about anything? redface

Mind you though, some of them are really obvious- and even better when whoever says it is oblivious to what they've said. And why do they always happen when you're unable to laugh?
E.G, on holiday playing poker late at night with Mr W, our eldest daughter, and another shall we say "friendly" chap. He was teaching us how to play, and was in the process of reminding Mr W about the initial bets- known as "big & small blinds" when he said to Mr W "I'm big, you're small"
After a couple of glasses of vino, I got the giggles so badly I had to leave the room in the hope that eldest didn't notice!
confused

17 Feb 2008

I've just seen a very good definition of "dry humour" (from the Urban Dictionary):
dry humour:
dry humour ,sometimes also referred to as deadpan, is a form of comedic delivery in which something humorous is said or done by a person, while not exhibiting a change in emotion or facial expression.
It is implied humour or indirect humour which largely depends on what the audience thinks is being said rather than anything else.
This makes it clearer to me, Choonie, and the main thing is, as you say, it feels "safer", as if anyone takes offence, you can always say that that is not quite what you meant!
I've never heard of "wet humour" but it is obviously the opposite of dry humour, and is the sort of humour that can make you feel silly if it isn't thought to be funny. It can make you feel a bit of a drip, honestly....ah, that's why it's called that! biggrin

17 Feb 2008

my humour is dry and can be very, very dark also sarcastic and cutting depending on my mood. rolleyes

I like to read dry.. but only really 'get it' when I have read the person's writing a lot. At that point I will 'know' they are being humourous.
'wet' humour is something I have to be in the right mood to 'get' and laugh at.
no, wenchy. I am terrible for double entendre. It gets me into a lot of trouble at work as I get the giggles at the worst times. Sometimes they stay inside, but when I get 'the look' off my colleagues I am helpless.

17 Feb 2008

Quote by splendid_
my humour is dry and can be very, very dark also sarcastic and cutting depending on my mood.
I like to read dry.. but only really 'get it' when I have read the person's writing a lot. At that point I will 'know' they are being humourous.
'wet' humour is something I have to be in the right mood to 'get' and laugh at.
no, wenchy. I am terrible for double entendre. It gets me into a lot of trouble at work as I get the giggles at the worst times. Sometimes they stay inside, but when I get 'the look' off my colleagues I am helpless.

me too splendid....one of these days i am gonna be done for sexual harrasment for reading double entendres into everything the caretaker says or does.....good job he knows what Im like!!!

17 Feb 2008

boggy
particularly in dry or windy weather, the surface of the humour may harden forming a quite substantial crust (Dry, picturesque)... perhaps cracking under wieght or duress to expose a rather risky and treacherous subsurface (soggy, damp, smelly and farting)
lp
... and it'll have your boots off in a trice!

17 Feb 2008

Quote by LondonPlaything
boggy
particularly in dry or windy weather, the surface of the humour may harden forming a quite substantial crust (Dry, picturesque)... perhaps cracking under wieght or duress to expose a rather risky and treacherous subsurface (soggy, damp, smelly and farting)
lp
... and it'll have your boots off in a trice!

Is that an answer to all three questions?? wink

Sounds like shit to me!!
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