{"id":11310,"date":"2010-09-20T10:25:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T10:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/20\/of-haircuts-amphibolies-and-maxims\/"},"modified":"2010-09-20T10:25:33","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T10:25:33","slug":"of-haircuts-amphibolies-and-maxims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/20\/of-haircuts-amphibolies-and-maxims\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Haircuts, Amphibolies, and Maxims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">I got my quarterly haircut the other day.&#0160; A neighbor remarked, &quot;I see you got&#0160;a haircut,&quot; to which I responded with the old joke, &quot;I got &#39;em <em>all<\/em> cut.&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">In this as in so many other cases the humor derives from ambiguity, in this case amphiboly (syntactic ambiguity.)&#0160; The spoken &#39;I see you got a haircut&#39; can be heard as &#39;I see you got a hair cut.&#39;<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">The neighbor laughed at the joke, but I spared him the analysis, not to mention my theory of humor, both of which would have bored him.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Two relevant maxims: &#39;Tailor your discourse to your audience&#39; and &#39;Among regular guys be a regular guy.&#39;&#0160; And a meta-maxim: &#39;Step out of your house only with maxims at the ready.&#39;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got my quarterly haircut the other day.&#0160; A neighbor remarked, &quot;I see you got&#0160;a haircut,&quot; to which I responded with the old joke, &quot;I got &#39;em all cut.&quot; In this as in so many other cases the humor derives from ambiguity, in this case amphiboly (syntactic ambiguity.)&#0160; The spoken &#39;I see you got a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/20\/of-haircuts-amphibolies-and-maxims\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Of Haircuts, Amphibolies, and Maxims&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242,113,316],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-logica-utens","category-maxims-mottoes-epitaphs-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}