...because if this article is correct, I've been trolling the waters with corn flakes all these years and the fish were waiting for caviar.
Now off to find the nearest [ short] ledge.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/why-men-dont-fancy-funny-women-525001.html

"...women valued humour production, whereas men valued receptivity to their own humour," said Dr Martin.

The fish don't recognize the caviar when they see it because they are too busy admiring their own reflections in the water.

It's a hard thing to figure out, Postcards.
All these years, I assumed -and it appeared that most gentlemen valued my sense of humour even above my ability to grill a decent filet mignon. Now I'm hearing from some dour academic in a think tank article that men hate it when their Significant Other is funny. Wouldn't you think that a man would need a break from continual pith and be glad to allow somebody else to fill in? As Woody Allen said during my favourite of his movies -
Play It Again, Sam...
"I can't keep up that level of charm -I'd have a heart attack."

LOL I'll have to put my husband in that category. I have to work really hard to get him to crack a smile .. and I regularly make myself laugh but not him.
I used to think he lacked a sense of humour but all along it seems he was just being a man!

Well, now it all makes sense!

Well who knew? No wonder the men ceased to queue at my door, I tried to make them laugh! To me being able to laugh is one thing that makes life pleasant.

Keep the rubber chickens at the ready, ladies. That article is bunk. Leading academic journal? Yeah, right. Leading bunch of road apples is more like it!

I suspect it is only men who aren't funny themselves. They quietly envy the woman's ability to make people laugh and get on with people, because they can't do it. Nods wisely

I've only seen the headline so far but think I overlooked the article in another paper last week. Nonsense like this is one reason our brains are being gradually rotted if we stop long enough to take notice of them. And being summer these articles are at their annual peak. But anyone daring to call themselves an academic and getting paid for this should be struck off. It's one thing having journalistic features and another trying to pass them off as serious news.