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Hi SEers. John with you again. The last time I posted, the subject was humor and how to do it. If you missed it and want to review HERE is the link.

The title gives you some indication of where we are going today. We are to explore the nature of humor and perhaps be able to understand it a little better. So what makes us laugh anyway?

To you, humor may be one thing, and it may be entirely different to someone else. In any case, humor should elicit a response much akin to pleasure. It could be a chuckle, smile, or outright laugh. But, of course, there are times when humor is so obscure or subtle that the best response possible is a groan.

In an article published by Emily Blatchford on July 19^th, 2017, in the HuffPost on humor, it…