{"id":13148,"date":"2013-11-30T08:01:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T14:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13148"},"modified":"2013-11-30T08:01:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T14:01:48","slug":"no-wonder-she-didnt-get-the-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/30\/no-wonder-she-didnt-get-the-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"No Wonder She Didn’t Get The Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"

So my beautiful, athletic, and culinary wife said in the course of the conversation, “Obviously, I can cook.”<\/p>\n

To which I reparted, much like William Powell, I thought: “That’s what Comte said.”<\/p>\n

And she didn’t get it.<\/p>\n

Of course she did not. As I am twenty-some years beyond my intro to Sociology course, I confused Auguste Comte<\/a>, founder of sociology and positivism, with Cesare Lombroso<\/a>, founder of anthropological criminology, whose doctrines implied that criminality is inherited and that you can tell a criminal by the way he looks.<\/p>\n

Hence, “That’s what Comte said,” makes no sense, but “That’s what Lombroso said,” now that’s quality sociologist humor. Because she said “Obviously<\/em>, I am a good cook,” as though one could tell by the spacing of her eyes or the curve of her cheeks that she was a good cook.<\/p>\n

I mean, it’s not as though she’s Cun\u00e9gonde<\/a> because:<\/p>\n

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  1. She is not ugly.<\/li>\n
  2. She does not do pastries very often.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    As though cracking jokes about Italian criminologists and French sociologists weren’t enough, I have to go bringing the works of Voltaire into it.<\/p>\n

    Truly, I have a dizzying sense of humor.<\/p>\n

    I’m just getting started!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    So my beautiful, athletic, and culinary wife said in the course of the conversation, “Obviously, I can cook.” To which I reparted, much like William Powell, I thought: “That’s what Comte said.” And she didn’t get it. Of course she did not. As I am twenty-some years beyond my intro to Sociology course, I confused […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13149,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13148\/revisions\/13149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}