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	Other SC — Humour
		The kind of laughter and humour I am describing comes from the extremely enervating and refreshing experience of being alive and present in the moment, and is in juxtaposition to laughter and humour that stems from nervous tension or impending danger.
		What makes it fl humour is that such hypocritical duplicity perpetuates all the wars and murders and rapes and tortures and domestic violence and child abuse and sadness and loneliness and grief and depression and suicides forever and a day.
		Strong laughter and humour, on the other hand, stem from the conditioned self, or as we call it in AF, the social identity, which finds ordinary contradictions, juxtapositions, absurdities and inanities ‘funny’, but sometimes the humour is targeted towards the misfortune of others.
	www.actualfreedom.com.au /actualism/others/sc-other/sco-humour.htm (2822 words)

	IRSH Call for papers: Humour and Social Protest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Humour may also serve well to preserve the status quo and the power of the ruling majority, by furthering stereotypes of the oppressed for example.
		Various types of humour can be of interest, ranging from puns to trickster legends, from wayang performances to jazz music, from practical jokes to gallows humour.
		Is the disappearance of humour related to a decline of the movement, or to increased tensions?
	www.iisg.nl /irsh/humour-protest.php (594 words)

	An Evaluation of Humour in Emergency Work
		Gallows humour takes its name from the genre of jokes about the condemned man or the hopeless victim and is often generated by the victims themselves (Freud, 1905).
		Use of humour may be predicted by experience, exposure and acceptance of humour in the emergency context, as well as a personal appreciation or tendency to use humour.
		Kuhlman notes that humour is essential to survival in a maximum security unit, and humour is used in an attempt to have a good time so that working is not so depressing and staff play with the patients as much as work with them.
	www.massey.ac.nz /~trauma/issues/1997-3/moran1.htm (5245 words)

	Troop Morale and Popular Entertainment during World War One
		This type of gallows humour is more offensive to someone external to the situation, for example a civilian.
		Crucial to this lip-locking activity was the humour that accompanied it – the true Englishman could face anything with his barbed tongue and sense of the ridiculous.
		Humour was a temporary distraction from the war, a way of containing the situation by trivialising and laughing at it.
	www.geocities.com /neveahfs/morale.html (4148 words)

	Paul Benedict Grant: "The Poet Kept Smiling": Gallows Humour or Nabokov's Last Laughs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Freud's theory provides a model for the way in which Nabokov's humour functions not only during the instances of execution which appear in his fiction, but also, in a more general way, throughout his work.
		Gallows humour has many guises, and Nabokov's prisons are as figurative as they are literal.
		The impossibility of doing so, the "utter degradation, ridicule, and horror of having developed an infinity of sensation and thought within a finite existence" (Speak, Memory), suggest that, in a sense, all of Nabokov's humour might be termed "gallows" humour: an evasion of reality, amusement stolen in the midst of this unalterable truth.
	www.ssees.ac.uk /grant.htm (415 words)

	www.theage.com.au - Gallows humour salve to despair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The acerbic 20-minute shows are broadcast on al-Sharqiya, a satellite station that has at times run foul of the Government for its regular news coverage.
		The show's success attests to the gallows humour with which many Iraqis now view their lives — still lacking basic services and plagued by unrelenting violence.
		The first episodes were taped in Dubai because it was thought too dangerous and logistically difficult to film in Baghdad.
	www.theage.com.au /text/articles/2006/10/24/1161455722211.html (451 words)

	Margaret Atwood
		The deadpan humour, the scepticism about human motives, and the tendency to tell straight-faced lies for fun, to see if you can get the listener to believe them.
		The French have an expression: "Anglo-Saxon humour." It isn't the same as wit.
		"Gallows humour" is called that partly because highwaymen about to be hanged were much admired if they could crack a joke in the face of death.
	www.randomhouse.com /features/atwood/interview.html (1037 words)

	Boning up on a grim craft \| Arts & Books \| The Australian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Gallows humour is one potent defence that medical students develop, and perhaps the most obvious.
		Leonardo's spare, exact pen-photographs are an early exception to the tyranny of period style, but Leonardo was as much the scientific artist as the artistic scientist.
		His flayed or dissected bodies are arranged in life-like poses, as if to restore a lost human dignity or at least fl humour: a skeleton might lean on its own grave-spade or grieve for its own death or, contemplating a Yorick skull, the death of another.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,20610700-16947,00.html (1216 words)

	Humour And General Systems
		Humans were by no means the fastest or strongest animals in their environment; the most dramatic adaptation that humans had made was to develop their intelligence, and Dr. Miller contended that humour was a part of that.
		Humour, he said, allowed us “to alter our categories, to see things from a different perspective.” That ability, in turn, allowed us to deal with new information, and to develop new models of the world.
		This, he suggested, explained everything from children’s play to gallows humour.
	www.ayeconference.com /Articles/HumourAndGeneralSystems.html (1017 words)

	Gallows Humour: Guantanamo Suicides Deemed 'Act of War' :: PEJ News
		Gallows Humour: Guantanamo Suicides Deemed 'Act of War' :: PEJ News
		Gallows Humour: Guantanamo Suicides Deemed 'Act of War'
		But of course, Dylan wrote these lines four decades ago; this stain goes deep in our republic, it's been around a long time: the bellicose liars of the Bush Regime are only its latest manifestation.
	www.pej.org /html/print.php?sid=4842 (396 words)

	Clive Davis: Humour
		As a Seinfeld fanatic, I’m not sure which is more painful: watching "Kramer’s" rage-fuelled meltdown during a stand-up routine or the halting apology he gave later on the Letterman show.
		Last time I saw him on TV he was being paid to be crude and stupid for the Friday-night, post-pub TV audience.
		OK, maybe the humour is too cringe-makingly broad to qualify as all-time classic fare, but I'm happy to settle for 80 minutes of loud guffaws.
	clivedavis.blogs.com /clive/humour/index.html (3478 words)

	the null device
		A fascinating article about the history of political jokes in democracy and authoritarianism, from British caricatures to Eastern European gallows humour to the fine line of officially sanctioned humour and humour as propaganda.
		Put simply, it is governments whose very reason for existence is to impose a grand ideological vision on humanity which provide fertile manure for subversive jokes.
		MacLeod is becoming one of my favourite speculative fiction authors, alongside Greg Egan (partly because of his lucid speculations on society and politics, and partly because he writes actual characters you can empathise it, and not the cyberpunk mercenary-ninja-hacker/butt-kicking-chick clichés; not to mention his use of humour).
	dev.null.org /blog/archive.cgi/2001/12/22 (472 words)

	Melanie Phillips's Diary
		The men said they were angry at Mr Galloway's attempt to woo Muslim voters.
		They said they were "setting up the gallows" for him and warned any Muslim who voted for his anti-war Respect party that they faced a "sentence of death".
		After a fight broke out between the two groups, police were called and Mr Galloway was forced to hide in his car in an alley until the violence calmed down'.
	www.melaniephillips.com /diary/archives/001145.html (242 words)

	Alison Arngrim Bio
		Humour is an essential component to Arngrim's personality and talking to her from her home in Los Angeles, it is impossible to keep from cracking up.
		Today she uses this same gutsy sense of humour in her Healing With Humour workshop, which was born out of necessity at an AlDS-care conference in Florida.
		Once humour was thought to be nothing more than a defense mechanism," says Arngrim.
	www.hgd.com /alison/nellie.html (876 words)

	Comments on 19841 \| MetaFilter
		Personally, I've always found that gallows humour is a good way to - shall we say - blow off some emotional steam.
		I think there is definitely a difference between gallows humor and outright meanspirited jabs at the dead, as in the Christa McAuliffe jokes I giggled at when I was too young to know any better.
		personally i use humour to detach from the onslaughts of people who have been in a tragic event and are stuck in a situation where they are not willing to do anything to get out of it and would quite like you to be screwed up too.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/19841 (3583 words)

	Australian values 2
		Similarly, when seven bodies where discovered decaying in barrels of acid in the country town of Snowtown, the town's stores began selling souvenir coffee mugs with captions such as "come to snow town, you'll have a barrel of a time" accompanied by an image of a skeleton in a barrel.
		If attitude change is not a desirable outcome, the person may just laugh and then move on.
		Freudian psychologists believe that humour allows people to release tension associated with difficult experiences.
	www.convictcreations.com /history/convictleg2.htm (3139 words)

	Libertarians and humour \| Samizdata.net
		The answer is that the sense of humour comes from a libertarian understanding of the world.
		There is no connection between libertarianism and humour, nor indeed between optimism and humour.
		As one person said about the reason libertarians have a better sense of humour is because they don't have to always pretend they are so "turned-on" like the left.
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/004217.html (3485 words)

	BBC Will and Testament \| William Crawley's broadcasting diary
		One of our callers was distressed when she happened to see a Punch and Judy show in Portrush which featured a hanging scene, complete with gallows.
		The puppeteer, from Captain Franko, joined us to defend the Punch and Judy tradition against the suggestion that it might encourage impressionable young children to mimic the violence they see on the stage.
		Or the violent scenes in some of the Shakesperean plays we sometimes require young people to read as part of their schooling?
	www.bbc.co.uk /blogs/ni/2006/07/gallows_humour_1.html (863 words)

	SFU Centre for Canadian Studies - CNS 393-3 - Course Description
		We use fl humour, sick humour, gallows humour, satire, sarcasm, irony (lots of irony!) parody, lampoon, caricature, farce, and slapstick.
		His remark suggests that laughter was directed at some person when he/she was placed in an inferior position.
		Students who have taken CNS 391 – Canadian Humour may not take this course for further credit.
	www.sfu.ca /cns/New/CNS_393-3.htm (393 words)

	Palgrave Macmillan : Catalogue Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Colletta uses psychoanalytic theories of joke-work and gallows humour to argue that dark humour is an important, defining characteristic of Modernism.
		She brings together the usual suspects alongside more often overlooked writers from the period, and asks probing questions about the relationship between a dark humour that 'revels in the non-rational, the unstable, and the fragmented, and resists easy definition and political usefulness' and the historical and social circumstances of the period.
		Colletta makes a compelling argument that probing deeply into the nature of humour or satire that define these 'social comedies' brings to light a more complex, and more accurate, understanding of the social changes and historical circumstances that define the modern era.
	www.palgrave.com /products/Catalogue.aspx?is=1403963657 (165 words)

	Empire of the Senses
		You are uncommonly poor in gifts, a poor blockhead, but by degrees you will come to grasp what is required of you.
		You must apprehend the humour of life, its gallows-humour.
		When it's a question of anything stupid and pathetic and devoid of humour or wit, you're the man, you tragedian.
	userwww.sfsu.edu /~rob/Hesse.html (489 words)

	Cool Running :: Controversy over the Muslim veil
		Do I think that because some people in the US were slave-owners, that "it is only a matter of time before" their descendants do?
		Yes, I've heard of fl humour and gallows humour.
		This, though, is bigotry and racism - it is as bad as many of the things that Brutal has suggested.
	www.coolrunning.com /forums/Forum1/HTML/137069-7.shtml (4234 words)

	Stepford wives, snakebites and gallows humour \| Special reports \| The Observer
		So Bob and Jack were hanged as a deterrent.
		Unfortunately, the gallows collapsed as Bob went through the trap.
		Jack had to wait while the carpenter did some repairs.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /lionstour/story/0,,518491,00.html (906 words)

	CANOE -- SLAM! Sports - Curling - World Curling Championship: Gallows humour
		Tee off in the first round of the PGA Tour's Bell Canadian Open in Oakville, Ont., has been pushed back to 12:15 p.m.
		Twice they were going to the gallows when the governor called.
		Twice the rink, which came here from their coronation as the greatest rink in curling history, looked to be heading home in shame or in blame for becoming the first Canadian team to miss the playoffs at the World Curling Championships since Jack MacDuff's Newfoundland rink in 1976.
	slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Curling/Worlds/2005/04/08/988044.html (704 words)

	Bill Forsyth
		In 1983, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow.
		"I think that Glaswegian humour is very similar to New York humour, which is really Jewish humour for it is the humour of despair, the humour of the gallows.
		I think that is where humour comes from.
	www.scc.net /~heather/forsyth.html (678 words)

	Chill out Graham.........The British have a great tradition of gallows humour..... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Chill out Graham.........The British have a great tradition of gallows humour.....
		Besides, why have a real heavy dig about a joke which you didnt like and then leave some of the arseholes like sandford and others to destroy your board until they eventually get removed about a fortnight after they first use foul language?
		That was not gallows humour gquick 20/February/2002 at 15:45 (
	infoex.hemscott.net /MESSAGES/979807.HTM (219 words)

	john heron project » Blog Archive » Gallows Humour
		Somebody has to supply the machines … and who would claim to be the manufacturer but the manufacturer?
		though I suppose, I mean, it’s not like gallows are that hard to make and with the influx of cheap guns into central Africa you’d have thought that gibbets would have been simplier.
		Politics in the Zeros»Blog Archive » Gallows Humour
	www.johnheronproject.com /wp/?p=437 (199 words)

	HUMOR SCHOLARSHIP ON GALLOWS. SICK, BLACK AND TRAGICOMIC HUMOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Kauffman, J. "Gallows Humor and Jewish Humor: A Reading of 'The Dance of Genghis Cohn' by Romain Gary." Jewish Humor.
		Mark Twain's "The Mammoth Cod: An Address to the Stomach Club.
		"Humour Noir and Black Humor." Veins of Humor.
	www.msu.edu /~jdowell/HumSchGallows.html (515 words)

	Gallows Humour: Guantanamo Suicides Deemed 'Act of War' :: PEJ News :: Stories, Features, Opinion and Analysis :: ...
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		Cameco Uranium producer: call for divestment of funds - a question of ethics
	www.pej.org /html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=4842 (676 words)

	Accused killers met on vampire website : Religion News Blog
		In one photo she can be seen holding a gun up to the camera — professing her love for goth, punk and death metal music.
		According to a friend of the 12-year-old girl, she met Steinke online at VampireFreaks.com, a website that caters to “gothic industrial culture,” and claims to have over 500,000 members.
		It features web blogs and online journals by people with usernames such as SuicideOfLove, TeenageOddity and RottingNails who share feelings of depression, loneliness and anger mixed with gallows humour.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /14435/accused-killers-met-on-vampire-website (843 words)

	Gallows Humour
		Every momentous event or tragic situation soon turn to gallows humour to re leave the pain.
		Laughter has long been known as an antidote.
		The £20,000 Andrew Doolan prize should be used to repair the 12 doors which don't fit, trace and stop water leaking into an underground car park and find a solution to clearing pigeon droppings for inaccessible window ledges.
	www.martinfrost.ws /htmlfiles/gallows.html (315 words)

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