# Tickle my funnybone

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tickle-my-funnybone/498790>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 5, 2009, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tickle-my-funnybone/498790 "2009-06-05T06:34:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![jakesteele](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed8c4c/32.png) [@jakesteele](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jakesteele)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tickle-my-funnybone/498790/1 "2009-06-05T06:34:24Z")

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Why is it that if you try to tickle yourself nothing happens, but if someone tickles you in the same way it tickles?

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**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tickle-my-funnybone/498790/2 "2009-06-05T09:15:39Z")

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[Previous thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=138330), with input from Cecil Adams, Charles Darwin, and _Laughter, A Scientific Investigation_ by Robert R. Provine.