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I didn't get number 14. Can anyone explain it?
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Neither did I at first, but then "Google"!
www.simplypsychology.org/pavlov.html
4, 6, and 19 for me!
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>> Neither did I at first, but then "Google"!
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>> www.simplypsychology.org/pavlov.html
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>> 4, 6, and 19 for me!
6 is a play on singulars and plurals in Italian (and presumably Latin).
e.g. the sign in an English cafe for 'paninis' is incorrect. Panini is plural in Italian, if you are only buying one, strictly speaking you should say 'panino'. Panini is already plural, so adding the 's' is incorrect.
I don't feel I have explained that very well, but that is the gist of it.
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Pavlov trained dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell ringing by ringing a bell just before giving them food. He called it a 'conditioned reflex'. I guess the joke is that he too had acquired a conditioned reflex, sort of.
I didn't have to Google it, but I don't think it's that good a joke either.
Last edited by: Armel Coussine on Sat 15 Mar 14 at 13:55
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I had to think for a while about number 11.
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I don't know what it says about me, but I wasn't surprised that in 19 he brought home a dozen loaves...
As for Pavlov:
Why it's funny: It’s not. This joke makes light of animal cruelty. For shame. (Or: Because Pavlov’s dog has him well-trained.)
www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/06/28/the_most_intellectual_joke_you_know_an_idiot_s_guide_to_the_reddit_thread.html
Last edited by: Mapmaker on Mon 17 Mar 14 at 10:31
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>> I guess the
>> joke is that he too had acquired a conditioned reflex, sort of.
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>> I didn't have to Google it, but I don't think it's that good a joke
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Actually I think it's the best of the lot. Poetic justice, or the feeder bit, or whatever the expression is. You don't know whether the dog has conditioned him, or he has conditioned himself. But either way you suspect that the final outcome must be worrying him a little.
I think it ranks with the Private Eye cartoon of the scientists trying to breed a super-intelligent rat. After despondently discarding their final failure in the dustbin, the rat pushes the lid up and escapes to freedom.
They have succeeded, but will never know it.
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