Just a few examples here. The politicians have been picked because they are a great example (when their target audiences are observed) of humor generated on their part and perceived humorously by others that is NOT comprehended as humorous at all by still others - all likely due both to instinctual filter differences among the listeners and possibly to the impact of Indoctrination on the perception differences among those listeners.

Fascinating!

And FUN.

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• Richard Lederer and his website Verbivore - Lederer comments on language itself, and the ironic and paradoxical ways that it has evolved and is used, in an entertaining AND truthful fashion.
  
  
  • We humans are not born alone; joining and being active in a club whose members share your passion for ideas and get your jokes is one of the great joys of life.
  • Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
  • And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
  • If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
  • You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn't a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
  • Has written several books, including The Cunning Linguist - the naughty side of wordplay.
  
  
  
• Ronald Reagan - former state Governor and President of the United States. Extraordinarily rhetorically gifted. Due to the impact of indoctrinated "anticipation bias" and "perception bias" within the political realm (similar to indoctrination within the religious realm), many will find his remarks wonderful, and others not credible at all, even though the remarks judged are the exact same remarks made at the exact same event.
  
  
  • Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
    
    
  • With regard to the freedom of the individual for choice with regard to abortion, there's one individual who's not being considered at all. That's the one who is being aborted. And I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.
    
    
  • "Former Congressman Prentiss Walker dropped in on a farm and introduced himself as a Republican candidate," Reagan began, "And as he tells it, the farmer's eyes lit up, and then he said, 'Wait 'til I get my wife. We've never seen a Republican before.' And a few minutes later he was back with his wife, and they asked Prentiss if he wouldn't give them a speech."
    
    "Well, he looked around for a kind of a podium, something to stand on," he continued, "and then the only thing available was a pile of that stuff that the late Mrs. Truman said it had taken her 35 years to get Harry to call 'fertilizer.' So, he stepped up on that and made his speech.
    
    "And apparently he won them over. And they told him it was the first time they'd ever heard a Republican. And he says, 'That's okay. That's the first time I've ever given a speech from a Democratic platform.'"
    
    
  • "I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience." - in reply to criticisms by his opponents of his age during his 1984 re-election campaign debates.
    
    
  • "Honey, I forgot to duck." - remarked to his wife before heading into surgery following an assassination attempt on his life.
    
    
• Barack Obama - former President of the United States. Extraordinarily rhetorically gifted. Just as with Reagan (above), due to the impact of indoctrinated "anticipation bias" and "perception bias" within the political realm (similar to indoctrination within the religious realm), many will find his remarks wonderful, and others not credible at all, even though the remarks judged are the exact same remarks made at the exact same event. All for similar reasons, asymmetrically.
  
  
  • Humorous quotes have not been identified or contributed as of the current version of this section.