Blog 4

1. What experiences/backgrounds does someone have to have to like the joke? (Like an insider/culture)

2. If someone foreign from another country came and heard the first "joke" from shaggy dog stories, they wouldn't understand the intertextuality. After reading a shabby dog story to various of my coworkers among the majors of Math, Biology and History. I wanted to do this analysis because I felt the audience would have a different reaction according to their background and knowledge. My first

3. In the story about the Friar and florist, there wouldn't be a way to understand the punch line unless they knew the famous saying, "Only you can prevent forest fires." This has been a famous saying for our childhood from the Smoky the Bear commercial. Had this been told in Germany for example, it wouldn't be possible to understand it because there's a specific background you would need to have. There is a cultural necessity to understand that joke for example. In terms of Discourse, it is also necessary to take in consideration who the audience is and how the joke is going to affect (positive or negative) the audience.

4.Throughout the readings, I analyzed various examples that influenced the topic of the shabby dog story. 

The fact that words in shaggy dog stories have double meanings that could even prose an issue to those that aren't familiar with the meaning of shaggy dog stories. For example, let's say you told a lawyer read the one about the lawyer and the check. He/she may take it offensive, so the audience is definitely something to consider as well as the age. You wouldn't want to tell this to a 10 year old you know. First off, they wouldn't understand it and secondly, it's a little too violent for their age. A man shot a female bear who wasn't even the one who ate the lawyer's friend. "Don't trust a lawyer when he says the (Czech)oslovakian is in the male" I don't think it's appropriate to the ten year olds. Also, the pattern of grammar is something I feel that we'd (with some English background *whether major or minor*) have a better background to understand shabby dog stories than a mathematician or scientist.  I feel that due to their immense technicality they would read it plainly as in oppose to us that understand the word order because we're more trained in English than they are. The video that Karl sent us is really good too because this is very awkward humor, much like the office where as Dwight (can't remember his real name right now LOL) mentioned in the video is set up in a matter to have the audience crack up at someone else's misery that is usually used by intertextuality, which is VERY similar to shabby dog stories. 

5. After reviewing shaggy dog stories for the second time independently, I concluded a few new things I had not noticed previously. 

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3. Specific examples of the language and other features to illustrate the points you make abou t the Dicourses, Conversations, Intertextuality, etc used in the story you are analzying
4. Discussion of any patterns you see
5. A discussion that states what your analysis about shaggy dog stories (how your analysis answers the question you asked).