alice 🪞♥️ 🎩🐇<p>"No, that's the point. I grok people. I am people, so now I can say it in people talk. I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much & because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting."<br>...<br>I looked at a cageful of monkeys and suddenly I saw all the mean and cruel and utterly unexplainable things I've seen and heard and read about in the time I've been with my own people and suddenly it hurt so much I found myself laughing."<br>...<br>All practical jokes supported Mike's thesis, even ones as mild as a dribble glass - and when it came to an interne's notion of a practical joke - well, internes and medical students should be kept in cages. What else? ... "Apparently the pratfall is the peak of all humor. It's not a pretty picture of the human race, Mike."</p><p>-- Robert Anson <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Heinlein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Heinlein</span></a> A Stranger in a Strange Land</p><p>quote <a href="https://beige.party/tags/laugh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>laugh</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humor</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/practicaljokes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>practicaljokes</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/human" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>human</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/hurting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hurting</span></a></p>