| ▲ | linsomniac 16 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
>time for me to confess Don't feel that way. I can totally understand why some people wouldn't "get" (or I'd put it "appreciate") The Far Side. It's a very particular kind of humor, and it's fine that it's "not everyone's cup of tea". I, for example, absolutely loathe poetry. It's like the cilantro of literature of me, and I don't have the gene that makes it not taste like soap. ... Who cares!?! I have this "joke" that I dearly love, that I've never met anyone who gets it. It is a bad joke, largely because nobody gets it. It doesn't imply something in me or something lacking in ... everyone else. Humor is just what you find in it. It is: "Well, I defended my thesis in comparative literature, but it seems like he's got a pretty healthy pulse to me..." | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | rkomorn 16 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
> "Well, I defended my thesis in comparative literature, but it seems like he's got a pretty healthy pulse to me..." Definitely sounds like the kind of joke I'd like if I understood it. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | Waterluvian 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
My favourite own joke is when I’m sitting on a beach towel or grass or whatnot and I want to get up, I’ll say, “I can’t stand sitting, so I need a hand standing.” Nobody ever finds that amusing but it kills me every time. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | wussboy 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
I'm totally stealing that. Fantastic. And, if you want and if the Fates allow, you may have my favourite, completely unappreciated joke: "A time traveller!" [wait a few seconds] "Knock knock." | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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