Why d’you laugh?

Dogs who are shamelessly proud of what they’ve just done…

With tears streaming down my face, I can hardly see the key board to type!

I’ve just watched a series of photos of 30 dogs being themselves someone posted onto Facebook and started to ponder what I was actually laughing at – what triggered my giggle response?

As a screenwriter I’m primarily a visual thinker so the looks on the dogs faces; the type of dogs and my perceived ideas of their characters – and whether the notes were hand written or typed got me.  In other words, it was what was in the frame – my eyes took note first, then my brain married what was written, applying extra meaning to the words as I imagined myself walking in on and seeing each situation.

I’m interested in whether audio-oriented people found this funny and if they read the words first then applied them to the image and it’s contents and if no sound accomplishment made a difference.  Or did they impose imaginary dog breaking dishes/hedgehog sounds to round out the scenes?

And tactile people: because they essentially need to ‘do’, would they have imaged themselves as dogs actually being stuck with quills or chewing the door frame etc, to get the full funny-ness of the photos?

Now I’m imagining the dogs with my human faces!  Ha-ha-ha… I’ve made myself crack up!

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