More on aspie humor: opinions about Douglas Adams

I've started a few threads on here to help evaluate to what extent aspies are similar in ways other than the specific symptoms of AS.

I did a prior thread where it seemed there was a consensus that most aspie's responding had dry senses of humor and dry wit, though it seems harder for us to tell a scripted joke than to throw out a dry or sarcastic one-liner.

I was recalling over the weekend that probably the funniest thing I ever experienced was reading the books of Douglas Adams. When I read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I seriously had to put the put aside numerous times and just laugh and laugh. No other book has ever had that effect on me. I have probably re-read all of those books 50+ times. I wonder if perhaps his humor is particularly appropriate for Aspie's and, if so, then I imagine others on here are similarly impressed by his books.

Best ever. totally awesome homur.
All D adams books. At least 50 times. The planet Cricket totally broke my sides laughing. Well everything did. Dick Getly you read?

Agreed hysterical stuff and I love Adams' quotes that you find here and there on the net.

Another person who I find humorous is Dave Berry, has that same kind of sarcastic observational wit.

My dad advised me to read the Hitch Hickers Guide anthology when I was about 13. I loved every word. The humor got me through an otherwise dull phase (Middle school).

If I ever have a kid, i will buy (Hopefully a boy) the book. I found that Adam's book gave me exactly what i needed. A different outlook on humor in general. Reality is often a laughing matter, and that people take life far too seriously.

The words: "Don't panic." are always braught to my mind when the melodramatic people around me get the best of themselves.

Get it for your girl too. I could quote the first 50 pages verbatim of hitchhikers when I was about 14. My mom actually used it to bribe me to go to school: if I got straight A's, she agreed to buy me the set. I went from failing classes to a perfect 4.0, and I got my books. Dave Barry's fantastic, although he seems to have peaked in the 90's. So is Christopher Moore, who has not peaked and despite his simplicity does some of the most amazingly original descriptions. Garrison Kellior's Pretty Good Joke Book is worth a read. Monty Python's worth watching, as is the Fry and Laurie stuff. There used to be a fantastic commedian named Mark Russel who did shows on PBS every quarter. I remember watching him from gradeschool on until into my 20's. I think he may have died, which is sad. Mark Twain's totally worth everything everyone ever said about him. I'm half through watching something called 7 Zwerge on netflix instawatch that's worth watching.


I seem to prefer humor that I cannot predict, which is tricky since most humor is too obvious to be interesting. I detest stuff that involves mocking people. It feels to painful. So most movies are out. Stupid humor is incredibly dull.

And here's my favorite joke:

How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Two: one to hold down the giraffe and the other to fill the bathtub with brightly painted bicycles.

And here is the joke I use to tell when I need to stop drinking:

What's brown and sticky? A stick.

I give the surrealist joke a 9...nice one!

What's a 10?

In my early teens, I went through a huge phase of saying "and thanks for all the fish" whenever I had to thank someone or say goodbye, and 42 whenever I didn't know the answer to something. Of course, very few other people had any idea what I was talking about. I guess that makes it pretty clear that I love the the books! Just about wet myself when it turned out that the Golafrinchans were the ancestors of humanity...explains so much.

I also loved the surrealism joke