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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If I read it, will I understand why "feet" is in the sneeze-causing list?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I read it as a joke of increasing absurdity. Sniffing pepper makes people sneeze so that one works (besides the trying to make a plant sneeze part). He got a bit distracted by experiment 2 and mixed up the involuntary reactions sneezing and tickling and tries to tickle it with a feather. He then gets further distracted between experiment 2 and 3, and tests feet which are commonly ticklish.

When I break it down like this you can see that it is a very funny joke, as one can always tell from a detailed explanation of the joke.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The smell?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I also don't get it. Not everything that smells causes you to sneeze. None of the methods actually make sense. A feather tickles you, not makes you sneeze. And the pepper? The experiment is invalid. Did not disprove the hypothesis, needs more testing.