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Inherently Funny Word @ CompleteIdiotsGuide.com (Complete Idiots Guide) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | The belief that certain words are inherently funny, for reasons ranging from onomatopoeia to sexual innuendo, is widespread among people who work in humor. |
 | | The idea that the answer to the "ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything" is 42 is funny, according to author Douglas Adams, because it is an "ordinary, smallish" number, whereas numbers relating to space tend to be extremely large or extremely small and exact to many decimal places. |
 | | In the comic strip Pickles by Brian Crane, the word snood was presented as an inherently funny word. |
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