EDWARD DE BONO'S MESSAGE - 4th September 2000

GENRE JOKES

Over time several different types of jokes have emerged.

Genre jokes:
..elephant
..blonds
..Essex girls
..lawyers
..accountants
..Polish
..Newfies (Canada)
..Tafileh (Jordan)
..Gabrovo (Bulgaria)
..Monica Lewinsky
..Skoda cars
..van der Merwe (South Africa)
..Gahann (Malta)

I am now proposing a new type of joke: the "GR" joke. This is rather more structured than the other types.

GR could stand for:
..Glamorous Redhead
..Grumpy Robot
..Greek Republican
..Germanic Race
..Gypsy Roamers
..Global Raiders
..Great Rulers
..Gutsy Rangers
..Gory Revolutionaries
..Gentle Rottweiler
..Gifted Reporter
..Gazette Reader
..Greedy Restaurant
..Goofy Rubbish
..Gombot Revolution
..Gracious Rat
..Ghostly Repartee
etc. etc. etc.

The choice of meaning is entirely up to you.

FORMAT:

GR's are generally both nice and intelligent. But they seem to love to be preached at. They seem to like to have their thinking done for them by self-important psuedo-intellectuals who tell them what intelligent people should think. They also seem to have an unusually high tolerance foe dishonesty. It is quite possible that they enjoy the righteous preachings - without taking them at all seriously.

The new genre GR jokes is as follows:

Part 1: What does a GR like about xxx?
Part 2: What does a GR not like about xxx?

There always has to be the two parts. The emphasis is not on stupidity but a certain mental laziness. GRs do not like to exert themselves mentally - but they are by no means stupid.

What do GRs like about busses?
You do not have to bother driving.
What do GRs not like about busses?
You have to figure out which way they are going.

What do GRs like about spaghetti?
It does not matter which end you eat first.
What do GBrs not like about spaghetti?
Figuring out whether or not to use a spoon.

The creative challenge is to take any subject whatsoever and to create a GR joke around it. 

For practice you are invited to create GR jokes about the following things. Send them in for publication here (edwdebono@msn.com subject: GR)

The Bonto input has been a great success. Maybe the GR creativity can be as good!

Subjects:
..dogs
..the Olympic Games
..television
..trees
..the BBC
..shoes
..newspapers

Edward de Bono nmt
4th September 2000
Perth