Probably what *this* should be called.
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by Doug » Wed Jun 22, 2022 12:17 am
Doug wrote: ↑Tue Jun 21, 2022 10:29 pm
I don't think you can convince somebody that a thing is funny, either they thought it was funny or they didn't
The Office was funny
Wait
There may be occasions where a joke can be explained, usually this involves a reference. For example a Shakespeare thing might become funny once it's explained. That's not the case here though
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by Luna » Wed Jun 22, 2022 12:45 am
it's less explaining a joke and more explaining the genre of the comedy. the office is funny to some people because they like that kind of cringe humour. it's like looking into the void and finding it funny
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by Ashenai » Wed Jun 22, 2022 6:55 am
Office is like Seinfeld or Konosuba. The main characters are deeply flawed and you laugh at their dumb struggles, but you also root for them. It's nice when they succeed and funny when they fail. It's a great premise!
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by Ashenai » Wed Jun 22, 2022 6:57 am
Which is why Jim and Pam are imo the weakest characters in the Office. They're not flawed enough for their failures to be funny.
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by Crunchums » Tue Jul 05, 2022 4:18 pm
*old man on his deathbed*
i'm glad that i followed my passion of bird watching even though came up one species short of my goal to watch-em-all. no egrets
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by Khaos » Tue Jul 05, 2022 6:21 pm
sounds like a hard pill to swallow
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by Crunchums » Tue Jul 05, 2022 6:33 pm
this thread is starLing to take a tErn for the Grey-breasted laughingthrush
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by Khaos » Tue Jul 05, 2022 6:38 pm
i think crunchums is going a little cuckoo
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by Crunchums » Mon Jul 25, 2022 10:11 pm
almost certainly this joke has been made before, but hey
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by Ashenai » Mon Jul 25, 2022 10:33 pm
that's the textbook sentence for syntactic ambiguity!
there are multiple other ways to interpret it, such as "take your stopwatch and time some flies. time them the same way you would time an arrow."
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by Skeletor » Tue Jul 26, 2022 1:09 am
Ashenai wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 10:33 pm
that's the textbook sentence for syntactic ambiguity!
there are multiple other ways to interpret it, such as "take your stopwatch and time some flies. time them the same way you would time an arrow."
i mean, it's half of the textbook sentence
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by Skeletor » Tue Jul 26, 2022 1:10 am
Crunchums wrote: ↑Tue Jul 05, 2022 4:18 pm
*old man on his deathbed*
i'm glad that i followed my passion of bird watching even though came up one species short of my goal to watch-em-all. no egrets
i changed this a little and told it to my mom. she's a bird watcher, she's got a bucket list of birds to see, and loves egrets, so it was really good
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by Crunchums » Tue Jul 26, 2022 1:12 am
nice
how did you change it?
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by Skeletor » Tue Jul 26, 2022 1:22 am
oh i made it call & response and called it "lifetime birds" which is what my mom calls them
what did the bird watcher say on her deathbed after achieving all but one of her lifetime birds? no egrets
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by Crunchums » Fri Aug 05, 2022 2:08 am
i have yet to lose my covirginity (covid virginity; i.e. contracting covid for the first time)
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by Crunchums » Fri Aug 05, 2022 2:09 am
his dick snapped across the elastic of his boxers as he took them off, strumming the root of a D major chord
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by Luna » Fri Aug 05, 2022 2:11 am
more like d minor :owned:
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by Doug » Fri Aug 05, 2022 2:19 am
and now he's a soprano
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by Jeb Bush 2012 » Fri Aug 05, 2022 4:12 am
Crunchums wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 2:08 am
i have yet to lose my covirginity
(covid virginity; i.e. contracting covid for the first time)
covirginity is the state of having had sex (securities fraud) with everyone
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by Doug » Fri Aug 05, 2022 1:00 pm
I saw the sentence "Alex Jones is a false flag operation" and for some reason I thought that was really funny
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by Crunchums » Fri Aug 05, 2022 1:35 pm
but "gay frogs" instead of "government takeover"
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by rianalnn » Fri Aug 05, 2022 1:36 pm
Doug wrote:I saw the sentence "Alex Jones is a false flag operation" and for some reason I thought that was really funny
seconded
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Bring on the kung-fu amputees - no arms vs. no legs anyone? A bit of high-speed underground ninja-tunneling is always good as well. I wanna see some shit like that. Crazy monks with gnarly special powers can make any film good. FACT.
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by Doug » Fri Aug 05, 2022 9:01 pm
Hum the intro to Blue Monday by New Order, except instead of humming, go "MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW" like cat noises
Then when you get to the part where the words should come in, go "MEOW! DOES IT FEEEL"
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by Doug » Fri Aug 05, 2022 9:05 pm
H.G. Wells is talking to his friends. He says to them, of World War One, "This is the war to end all wars."
There's a noise. They turn and look, and I'm standing there next to a time machine just like the one H.G. Wells described in his novel, and I go in a loud clear voice, "FALSE"
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by rianalnn » Fri Aug 05, 2022 10:45 pm
lol
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by Ashenai » Fri Aug 05, 2022 11:20 pm
Doug wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 9:05 pm
I go in a loud clear voice, "FALSE"
Bears. Beets. Battle of Stalingrad
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by Hyphen-ated » Fri Aug 05, 2022 11:57 pm
Doug wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 9:01 pm
Hum the intro to Blue Monday by New Order, except instead of humming, go "MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW" like cat noises
Then when you get to the part where the words should come in, go "MEOW! DOES IT FEEEL"
to scratch me like you do
when you've laid your paws upon me
and told me "mrr mrr mrar"
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by Doug » Sat Aug 06, 2022 12:10 am
lmfao
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