A type of
humor that is
recurisively applied to the humor
carrier, be it a
joke, a
cartoon, or a
node. Favorite among the
geek crowd for the intellectual effort it sometimes takes to recognize the obscure self-reference in a joke, and the possibility of getting
high on ensuing
mindfuck. Examples include most of the (rather
lame, no offense) writeups in the
recursion node, most of the
misinformation node, a lot of
User Friendly cartoons, and the following (again, rather obvious, but I can't come up with anything better right now)
joke:
An Arab, a Jew and an American walk into a bar.
The bartender says...
"What is this, some kind of joke?"