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I want you to EXPLAIN jokes to me. Any kinda jokes, gags, humourous ideas. Really take them apart. Analyse them.

― Dolly Bird, Saturday, 10 January 2004 03:24 (twenty-two years ago)

From a social viewpoint
From a psychological viewpoint
From a humour viewpoint
Any other you like

― Dolly Bird, Saturday, 10 January 2004 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

There are many reasons why the chicken could have crossed the road, so let us consider them.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 January 2004 03:27 (twenty-two years ago)

the boy got dirty, see. when he fell in the. mud.

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 10 January 2004 03:29 (twenty-two years ago)

you hadda be there.

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 10 January 2004 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)

RE the chicken, my theories:
Ennui?
Egg-sistensial angst?

― pete s, Saturday, 10 January 2004 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)

You people aren't trying.
Come on, deconstruct you post-modernists!

― Dolly Bird, Saturday, 10 January 2004 03:36 (twenty-two years ago)

crystal was little.. she was little over five foot tall, weighing maybe about five hundred pounds.. so it didn't take him much time to... and then he stabbed her in the back, and he gutted her. then she took her into the bedroom...

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 10 January 2004 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Consider this conundrum of the sort called a "riddle":

Q: What did the Zen monk say to the hot dog vendor?
A: "Make me one with everything."

We immediately see this joke is not funny. Nor is it not not funny, much as when the monk asked the Zen patriarch Joshu whether or not a dog had Buddha nature and Joshu answered, "Mu", meaning "no thing", which indicated neither yes or no. Similarly, when seriously considered, this joke is not funny, but simply is. Or, to put it another way, it is a joke being. It asks nothing, does nothing, wants nothing. It is perfectly mu.

Humorous jokes, of the sort favored by loud, unspiritual people the world over, have no mu. They are harsh, clangorous and dissonant, aggressively poking you in the ribs like an obnoxious fat man in a cheap suit who most likely wants you to buy a used car or a vacuum cleaner. If you had any sense at all, the sight of people laughing at jokes would creep you out. All those teeth showing. The braying noise. And the distinct possibility of catching a disease from all that indicriminate spraying of mouth juices.

Therefore, we should be like Joshu's dog, perfect in our mu. Although history notes that the dog's name was Mu, which might also account for it.

― Aimless, Saturday, 10 January 2004 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, here's the deal, see. Say you're 30. Most people only live till they're around 80, right? So count your life in terms of summers.

YOU ONLY HAVE 50 SUMMERS LEFT BEFORE YOU DIE.

― ModJ (ModJ), Saturday, 10 January 2004 04:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh-heh. He said "mu".

― Boy Howdy, Saturday, 10 January 2004 04:08 (twenty-two years ago)

jimmymod just ruined my night

― bnw (bnw), Saturday, 10 January 2004 04:52 (twenty-two years ago)

FIFTY!!! DO YOU HEAR??????

― ModJ (ModJ), Saturday, 10 January 2004 05:09 (twenty-two years ago)

So somebody caused an action to occur, there was a reaction. The rest is.....oh, I don't....uh..um.....care, actually.

― Matt (Matt), Saturday, 10 January 2004 05:13 (twenty-two years ago)

needing to entertain vs. needing to be entertained - the economics of interpersonal relations?

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 10 January 2004 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

you see his name was "johnny deeper" and it was very humourous in light of his actions in the classroom that day

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 10 January 2004 05:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Is this a Killing Joke thread?

― omg, Saturday, 10 January 2004 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

If anyone deconstructs the guy with the many-axled car from the Simpsons I truly will kill myself.

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 10 January 2004 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Most perfect ascended master Aimless wins this thread.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Sunday, 11 January 2004 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

read the derrida thread barry: 'deconstruction' is a load of shit.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 11 January 2004 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

this threat hurts

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 11 January 2004 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.sixtiescity.com/SciFilm/Images/SF240.jpg

― kephm, Monday, 12 January 2004 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

It's Jerry Lewis!! In the Nutty Professor!!

― omg, Monday, 12 January 2004 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, Julio. If anyone tries to take apart the facets of the many-axled car guy joke in order to explain why it's funny, I shall kill someone. And that someone will be Julio.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Cool! My thread's inspiring potentially psychotic behaviour!

Come on! anyone who has an axle to grind get typing!

― Dolly Bird, Monday, 12 January 2004 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

dolly is a troublemaker!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 12 January 2004 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

If anyone deconstructs the guy with the many-axled car from the Simpsons I truly will kill myself.

Haha I think I tried to get Luna to explain that to me.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 12 January 2004 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

It's already happened!

― Leee Majors (Leee), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

50 summers.

― ModJ (ModJ), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha ha you can't scare me that way i know i'll be dead way sooner than that

― omg, Tuesday, 13 January 2004 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.osric.com/~jeremy/hooray.jpg

― Leee Majors (Leee), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmmmm, but what does it MEAN Leee?

― Dolly Bird, Tuesday, 13 January 2004 01:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Do your own homework, Bart.

regards,

REB

― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 03:05 (twenty-two years ago)

All Humour is Relative.

ie it is all about families

― omg, Tuesday, 13 January 2004 03:23 (twenty-two years ago)

this thread makes me realize I haven't heard enough jokes. what about 50 summers?

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, here's the deal, see. Say you're 30. Most people only live till they're around 80, right? So count your life in terms of summers.

YOU ONLY HAVE 50 SUMMERS LEFT BEFORE YOU DIE.

-- ModJ (ModJ@nomail.com

― ModJ (ModJ), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)

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