{"id":3435,"date":"2005-07-25T09:37:02","date_gmt":"2005-07-25T16:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/07\/25\/whats-your-funny\/"},"modified":"2019-12-17T10:47:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T18:47:45","slug":"whats-your-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/07\/25\/whats-your-funny\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s your funny?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7914,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.bbc.co.uk\\\/comedy\\\/theoffice&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20090822040853\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.bbc.co.uk:80\\\/comedy\\\/theoffice\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 02:47:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 18:10:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 18:10:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7915,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.okcupid.com\\\/tests\\\/take?testid=17565214125862764376&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251113060821\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.okcupid.com\\\/tests\\\/take?testid=17565214125862764376&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 02:47:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 18:10:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 18:10:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7916,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.okcupid.com\\\/profile?tuid=11694560292031626201&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.okcupid.com\\\/profile?tuid=11694560292031626201&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7186,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.okcupid.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260307033839\\\/https:\\\/\\\/okcupid.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 19:27:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 18:10:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 18:10:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7917,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.livejournal.com\\\/users\\\/lemurlad\\\/4694.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Another online quiz &#8212; though this one (unlike many others), actually gave me a result that seemed pretty accurate: the three-variable funny test.<\/p>\n<h3>The Wit<\/h3>\n<p>(60% dark, 30% spontaneous, 22% vulgar)<\/p>\n<p>your humor style: <strong>CLEAN<\/strong> | <strong>COMPLEX<\/strong> | <strong>DARK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You like things edgy, subtle, and smart. I guess that means you&#8217;re probably an intellectual, but don&#8217;t take that to mean you&#8217;re pretentious. You realize &#8216;dumb&#8217; can be witty&#8211;after all isn&#8217;t that &#8216;the Simpsons&#8217; philosophy?&#8211;but rudeness for its own sake, &#8216;gross-out&#8217; humor and most other things found in a fraternity leave you totally flat. I guess you just have a more cerebral approach than most. You have the perfect mindset for a joke writer or staff writer. Your sense of humor takes the most effort to appreciate, but it&#8217;s also the best, in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Also, you probably loved <em>The Office<\/em>. If you don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m talking about, check it out here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/comedy\/theoffice\/\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/comedy\/theoffice\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PEOPLE LIKE YOU: Jon Stewart &#8211; Woody Allen &#8211; Ricky Gervais<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/is2.okcupid.com\/users\/116\/944\/11694560292031626201\/mt1121288929.gif\" width=\"495\" height=\"540\" alt=\"Humor Test Result Graph\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My test tracked 3 variables. How you compared to other people <em>your age and gender<\/em>:<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\">\n<table bgcolor=\"black\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#b2cfff\" height=\"20\" width=\"81\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"white\" width=\"69\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\">You scored higher than <strong>54%<\/strong> on <strong>dark<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\">\n<table bgcolor=\"black\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#b2cfff\" height=\"20\" width=\"1\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"white\" width=\"149\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\">You scored higher than <strong>0%<\/strong> on <strong>spontaneous<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\">\n<table bgcolor=\"black\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#b2cfff\" height=\"20\" width=\"14\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"white\" width=\"136\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\">You scored higher than <strong>9%<\/strong> on <strong>vulgar<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.okcupid.com\/tests\/take?testid=17565214125862764376\" title=\"OK Cupid: The 3 Variable Funny Test\">The 3 Variable Funny Test<\/a> written by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.okcupid.com\/profile?tuid=11694560292031626201\" title=\"OK Cupid: jason_bateman\">jason_bateman<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.okcupid.com\/\" title=\"OK Cupid\">Ok Cupid<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/lemurlad\/4694.html\" title=\"lemurlad: Humor Test\">James<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(And, once again, I&#8217;m driven up the wall by the mind-boggling horrible HTML code that these quizes generate. I just don&#8217;t have the time to clean it up any more than I already have right now&#8230;grrr!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another online quiz &#8212; though this one (unlike many others), actually gave me a result that seemed pretty accurate: the three-variable funny test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-3435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}