{"id":35,"date":"2006-02-08T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/2006\/02\/08\/innovation-like-humor\/"},"modified":"2021-06-12T03:40:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T03:40:58","slug":"innovation-like-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/2006\/02\/08\/innovation-like-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation like Humor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/poignantguide.net\/ruby\/chapter-3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline_image_no_float\" style=\"clear: both\" alt=\"Funny Foxes\" src=\"\/wp-images\/inline\/comic.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So Scott Adams has a basic <a href=\"http:\/\/dilbertblog.typepad.com\/the_dilbert_blog\/2005\/12\/humor_formula.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">formula for a successful comic<\/a>.  In order for something to be funny, you need at least two of the following elements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cute (as in kids and animals)<\/li>\n<li>Naughty<\/li>\n<li>Bizarre<\/li>\n<li>Clever<\/li>\n<li>Recognizable (You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been there)<\/li>\n<li>Cruel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Looking through the funny pages (actually, the not-so-funny pages) this weekend I noticed 3 comics that followed his formula exactly.  Mean talking animals seems to be the flavour of the day (Family Guy anyone?), and that hit 3 of 6 right there.  Perhaps Adams is right. <\/p>\n<p>This makes me wonder if there is a similar formula for innovation&#8211;surely a formula for innovation is no more unthinkable than a forumla for humour (then again, I don&#8217;t find many comics that try to pull off the formula to be terribly funny, except for the foxes above&#8211;they crack me up, probably cause they hit 4 of 6). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Scott Adams has a basic formula for a successful comic. In order for something to be funny, you need at least two of the following elements: Cute (as in kids and animals) Naughty Bizarre Clever Recognizable (You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been there) Cruel Looking through the funny pages (actually, the not-so-funny pages) this weekend I noticed 3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/parCYG-z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}