Things to make your Wednesday better:

[theweaselking]

Bad Joke Thread, still going strong, even if it's just been me and thornae for the last few days.

Comments

[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

I could never get past my nerd rage over the fact that fingernails aren't made of calcium.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

If I edit the OP to say "keratin deposit", would that help?

[smangesable.livejournal.com]

He won't stop until you do, you know. He's stubborn like that.

I'd know because a) I'm married to him and b) he told me so. :)

[thornae.livejournal.com]

That's not quite how I stated it - I had noticed that the king was still posting jokes, and I didn't want him to be in that long thread all by himself....

And it's not so much stubbornness as it is that sort of competitive politeness we have the British to thank for. "After you, old chap," and all that.

[thornae.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, this reminds me of a hypothesis my cousin once posited, that among a group of sufficiently well read folk, most jokes can be recognised by merely stating the punchline. We deemed this the "Yeah, but the way you told them!" hypothesis.


The Goons would have fun with this, dropping the occasional innocuous sounding punchline of a filthy joke into their shows...
"Pardon me, sir."
"Yes?"
"It's your turn in the barrel."
"Oh, right."

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

That's actually the premise of the drinking game Punchlines: You go around a circle telling just the punchline of a joke. Catch is, any of the other players can challenge you: If you can't tell the joke, you drink. If you can, everyone else at the table drinks. If its your turn and you don't have a punchline, you drink. If you use the same joke[1] as previously told, you drink.

[1]: NOT "the same punchline" - but if you re-use a punchline, expect to get challenged and have to tell a different joke[2] that ends in the same punchline. Of course, if nobody challenged the first guy....

[2]: "The same joke, told slightly differently" doesn't count. Use "The Aristocrats!" all you want, but first EVERYONE is going to challenge you on that and make you tell it just on principle, and the second person who tries it has to tell a different joke.

[thornae.livejournal.com]

That's a great game. I am somewhat sad that I didn't learn it while still in a situation that would have made it possible to play it.


Nevermind, I'm sure I'll get the chance someday.