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		TuringTest on Sept 23, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Church of Interruption It makes sense. They say humour is based on creating expectations and solving them suddenly.

JadeNB on Sept 24, 2019 [–]

> They say humour is based on creating expectations and solving them suddenly.

I don't know what it means to solve expectations; I'd guess it means to meet them, but I've always understood part of the recipe for humour to be violating expectations.

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