Explanation of my sense of humor

I just finished reading this book Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos, a mathematics professor at Temple University. The overall premise of the book was to explain why lacking a basic understanding of probability, estimation, and basic analysis is very dangerous, and causes future problems by misunderstanding and misinterpreting "facts."

I myself plowed through the rigors of mathematics at a college level, and throughout my four years at CWRU, I realized that my perceptions and sense of humor changed. There is one chapter in Innumeracy that explains exactly how my sense of humor works:

Mathematicians...have a characteristic sense of humor which may be a result of their training. They have a tendency to take expressions literally, and this literal interpretation is often incongruous with the standard one and therefore comical. (Which two sports have face-offs? Ice hockey and leper boxing). They indulge as well in reductio ad absurdum, the logical practice of taking any premise to an extreme, and in various sorts of combinatorial word play.

Now for a few quick jokes as examples. One of my seasonal absurd favorites: "What is the best part of having Alzheimer's disease? You can have your own Easter egg hunt!"

After Sunday Mass, there is always a 50/50 lottery. The recurring joke is that if anyone purchases more than one ticket, say n tickets, then automatically n-1 tickets are guaranteed losers.

In summary, I find humor in the juxtaposition of two true statements that produce an otherwise illogical sounding or absurd outcome. So forgive me if I find something amusing, that to everyone else seems mundane. Oh yeah, and dead baby jokes are hilarious too. Cheers.