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Substituting "humor" for "irony" in the Steve Martin quote from Roxanne (1987):

"Oh, ho, ho, humor! Oh, no, no, we don't get that here. See, uh, people ski topless here while smoking dope, so humor's not really a, a high priority. We haven't had any humor here since about, uh, '83, when I was the only practitioner of it. And I stopped because I was tired of being stared at."

Also about statistics, you may have missed my final comment on Lambda Moo:

When my research mathematician friend Arunas Rudvalis (discoverer of the Rudvalis group) switched from group theory to statistics, I asked, isn't that a much more narrow field?

He said "no, you don't get it. Take *all* of mathematics, and make all of the variables random variables. That's statistics."

(No doubt I still don't get it, but that expanded my horizons anyway.)