Minnesota Bill prompted by scuba diving deaths moves forward

[tursiops]

This is gonna kill the Minnesota dive resort business.

Why do you say that? The bill has nothing to do with the dive resort business.

 

[lowwall]

Why do you say that? The bill has nothing to do with the dive resort business.

It's a joke. A pretty funny one IMO.

 

[tursiops]

It's a joke. A pretty funny one IMO.

How is a reader supposed to know it is a joke? Sounds more like Florida Man spouting nonsense.

 

[rjack321]

How is a reader supposed to know it is a joke? Sounds more like Florida Man spouting nonsense.

Are you aiming at the winter hockey lake and summer dive resort biz?

 

[lowwall]

How is a reader supposed to know it is a joke? Sounds more like Florida Man spouting nonsense.

I'll be happy to drain any remaining humor from the situation by explaining it.

A standard humor technique is the use of unexpected juxtapositions. In this case of the concept "Minnesota" which is characterized in the popular imagination by cold weather and stoic - dare I say dour? - inhabitants and the concept "dive resort" which suggests tropical waters and joie de vivre.

Another humor technique is the use of absurdity. Minnesota doesn't actually have any dive resorts, so the statement was facially absurd and thus readily identifiable as at least facetious, even if the reader didn't find it particularly funny.

 

[stretchthepenn]

I'll be happy to drain any remaining humor from the situation by explaining it.

 

[iliketopetsharks]

How is a reader supposed to know it is a joke?

By having at least two working brain cells?

 

[tursiops]

I'll be happy to drain any remaining humor from the situation by explaining it.

A standard humor technique is the use of unexpected juxtapositions. In this case of the concept "Minnesota" which is characterized in the popular imagination by cold weather and stoic - dare I say dour? - inhabitants and the concept "dive resort" which suggests tropical waters and joie de vivre.

Another humor technique is the use of absurdity. Minnesota doesn't actually have any dive resorts, so the statement was facially absurd and thus readily identifiable as at least facetious, even if the reader didn't find it particularly funny.

Thanks.
I know several Minnesota divers and they are full of life and joy. I do NOT think of the state or its people as stoic or dour. Your last paragraph makes sense; I was however thinking of "dive resort" in the larger sense.....not a Buddy Dive kind of operation but rather a place you might go to to stay for a few days and get in some good diving. Minnesota is that, for sure, as they say.
So I apologize to @Tom Winters for completely missing his joke, and I object to @iliketopetsharks's feeble attempt to make fun of me. Or was that a joke too, that I somehow missed?