You can analyse a joke and say it's funny because this guy thought this was going to happen, and that happened, and it's surprising. But not all surprising things are funny. — John Lloyd Copy Share Image
“James Joyce married a woman named Nora Barnacle. She once said to him, ‘Why don’t you write books people can read?” — John Lloyd Copy Share
“Tour de France riders need to eat the equivalent of 27 cheeseburgers a day.” — John Lloyd Copy Share
“There is no known scientific way of predicting earthquakes. The most reliable method is to count the number of missing cats in the local… — John Lloyd Copy Share
Jokes are a lot about meaning. I think if we understand what jokes mean and why they work, we'd understand everything else. Genuinely I… — John Lloyd Copy Share
“About 200,000 academic journals are published in English each year. The average number of readers per article is five. The average numbers of… — John Lloyd Copy Share
“When John Hetherington ventured out in public wearing the first top hat, it was considered so shocking that children screamed, women fainted, and a… — John Lloyd Copy Share
“Robert Burns was never called Rabbie or Robbie—though he did occasionally call himself Spunkie.” — John Lloyd Copy Share
The universe is fractal. The closer you look at it, the more interesting it becomes. — John Lloyd Copy Share
“British spies stopped using semen as invisible ink because it began to smell if it wasn’t fresh.” — John Lloyd Copy Share
“Kummerspeck (“grief bacon”) is German for the weight put on from eating too much when feeling sorry for yourself.” — John Lloyd Copy Share
