u/Embarrassed_Bid_4970

Despite the common misconception, laughter is not an emotion. It is a response to a wholly intellectual processes. This is why a dumb joke is generally not funny to a highly intelligent person and an erudite joke goes over the head of an idiot. While laughing can elicit emotion, it doesn't require it. So this brings us to the conclusion that either Data has no sense of humor, or that most jokes are beneath him. So this leads me to believe that the joke Q told him was sufficently clever to be funny to Data, then Q made him forget immediately thereafter. The emotion chip is literally making Datas sense of humor dumber so he can relate to less intelligent beings humor.

Years ago, my coworker attended a wedding at which the reception dinner tables featured live betta fish in small bowls as part of the centerpiece. While chatting with the bride at the end of the evening, my coworker asked what they were going to do with all the fish. The plan was to flush them all down the toilet alive. My coworker immediately said no need for that and insisted on taking them all home.

That Monday she came to work and asked who wanted to adopt a betta fish. That was my first betta who I jokingly called my “rescue betta.” She lived for almost five years.

The wine glass was only her home for less than a day before I got her five gallon tank set up so please no betta lovers yell at me! I'm one of you!