I agree that humor is critical, no matter your profession. I honestly think I wouldn't have gotten where I am without it. I do like the lightbulb joke.
A Mac and an IBM walk into a bar. The bartender says "what will it be?" the IBM says, "I'll have whatever he doesn't finish" (that is an original, I have to say. no ai there... maybe I shouldn't admit that)
Reading this story reminded me of a conversation Zack Urlocker had during our OOP World Tour 1991 when we were meeting with 2 Japanese translators to prepare them for our all day seminar and their simultaneous translation from a booth in the ballroom. Zack always liked to start a presentation with a joke. He told the translators to be ready to translate at the beginning of his session. The translators respectively said that Zack should not tell a joke because it would not translate well for the audience (differences between English versus Japan sense of humor they said). Zack was frustrated and kept trying to find a story/joke that would work. He told them, how about I say "I'd like to sleep with your daughters". The translators had an immediate pained look on their faces and said, please don't say that. Finally the translators gave up. At the start of Zack's opening, he made a joke to which the translators said, in Japanese, "Mister Urlocker is now making a joke, please laugh". There was a momentary pause and then there was polite laughter in the audience.
I agree that humor is critical, no matter your profession. I honestly think I wouldn't have gotten where I am without it. I do like the lightbulb joke.
What if you’re not funny haha!
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A Mac and an IBM walk into a bar. The bartender says "what will it be?" the IBM says, "I'll have whatever he doesn't finish" (that is an original, I have to say. no ai there... maybe I shouldn't admit that)
Reading this story reminded me of a conversation Zack Urlocker had during our OOP World Tour 1991 when we were meeting with 2 Japanese translators to prepare them for our all day seminar and their simultaneous translation from a booth in the ballroom. Zack always liked to start a presentation with a joke. He told the translators to be ready to translate at the beginning of his session. The translators respectively said that Zack should not tell a joke because it would not translate well for the audience (differences between English versus Japan sense of humor they said). Zack was frustrated and kept trying to find a story/joke that would work. He told them, how about I say "I'd like to sleep with your daughters". The translators had an immediate pained look on their faces and said, please don't say that. Finally the translators gave up. At the start of Zack's opening, he made a joke to which the translators said, in Japanese, "Mister Urlocker is now making a joke, please laugh". There was a momentary pause and then there was polite laughter in the audience.