how many jokes do you know?
$Zero
and how many jokes have you heard in your lifetime?
what is your joke-know to joke-heard ratio?
...
over the course of my entire lifetime i've probably heard more than
fifty thousand jokes which i thought were pretty funny.
right now, i know five jokes total.
one of which i heard last night at a poker game.
three of the five were told to me within the last couple weeks.
the last of the five is about four months old, but i only remember the
punchline.
not even.
i just remember the imagery of the punchline.
therefore i couldn't possibly retell that joke to anyone else.
poll your friends likewise and report back.
-$Zero...
things that make me want to be a better person
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Lava Lamp
"$Zero" <zero...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> how many jokes do you know?
Do you mean personally, or just from this newsgroup?
--Lava Lamp
$Zero
> how many jokes do you know?
>
> and how many jokes have you heard in your lifetime?
>
> what is your joke-know to joke-heard ratio?
>
> ...
>
> over the course of my entire lifetime i've probably heard more than
> fifty thousand jokes which i thought were pretty funny.
>
> right now, i know five jokes total.
>
> one of which i heard last night at a poker game.
>
> three of the five were told to me within the last couple weeks.
>
> the last of the five is about four months old, but i only remember the
> punchline.
>
> not even.
>
> i just remember the imagery of the punchline.
because it was graphically sexual.
> therefore i couldn't possibly retell that joke to anyone else.
"Knock Knock"
"Who's there?"
"Five Jokes."
"Five Jokes who?"
"Five Jokes who... um.... no, make that Four Jokes."
...
i thought that up a few hours ago, just after i sent my poast.
(so i guess i'm back up to five jokes, sorta.)
and i just read Geno's unclever response to this question and decided
to post my newly created joke instead of mocking his silly IKYABWAI.
granted, my new joke requires this essay to be even remotely funny, so
let's do some Unicornian Math on my joke total and call it five jokes
total -- heh.
anyway, the point is, people tell me jokes all the time but i can
never remember them.
(even if i just heard them a few hours ago).
and the only reason i remember the four jokes i know now is because i
made a conscious decision to commit them to memory when i realized a
few weeks ago just how few jokes i had in my joke arsenal.
i can remember song lyrics pretty well.
and movie dialogue. even funny movie dialogue.
but not jokes.
i can also remember some pretty lengthy essays and poems that i've
written long ago, sometimes word for word.
but i can't remember jokes (except some of my own, maybe).
so how can we have such a great sense of humor and yet not be able to
remember anybody's jokes but our own, if that?
> poll your friends likewise and report back.
Geno disregard.
ba'dum, chsh!
-$Zero...
how many jokes do you know?
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Bill Penrose
> how many jokes do you know?
Q. How do MWers change a light bulb?
A. They don't, because half try to screw it to the left, and half to
the right. But it doesn't matter because soon everyone forgets what
the original task was.
DB
Bill Penrose
Then there's:
"I wish I were a DNA helicase so I could unzip your genes"
That's a molecular biology in-joke.
...
...
...
Well, I laughed so hard I denatured my RNA polymerase.
DB
Alan Hope
$Zero wrote:
> how many jokes do you know?
>
> and how many jokes have you heard in your lifetime?
>
> what is your joke-know to joke-heard ratio?
>
> ...
>
> over the course of my entire lifetime i've probably heard more than
> fifty thousand jokes which i thought were pretty funny.
>
> right now, i know five jokes total.
>
> one of which i heard last night at a poker game.
>
> three of the five were told to me within the last couple weeks.
>
> the last of the five is about four months old, but i only remember the
> punchline.
>
> not even.
>
> i just remember the imagery of the punchline.
>
> therefore i couldn't possibly retell that joke to anyone else.
Well now, there's a bright side to everything.
> poll your friends likewise and report back.
>
>
> -$Zero...
>
> things that make me want to be a better person
> http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/bd8e55d903d0e504
--
AH
boots
>how many jokes do you know?
$Zero.
That makes one.
Was that funny?
Me, I make two.
World population is what, 6.6 billion?
Lotsa jokes to be knone.
Was that clever?
"I am not a smart man."
--
Don't read this crap... oops, too late!
[superstitious heathen grade 8]
Sylvia
> "$Zero" wrote:
> > how many jokes do you know?
>
> Q. How do MWers change a light bulb?
>
> A. They don't, because half try to screw it to the left, and half to
> the right. But it doesn't matter because soon everyone forgets what
> the original task was.
Wot kind of light bulb?
--
Sylvia <--- Supreme Ruler of MW & a Petite Peep
"Two foot tall, yet rules them all! Less is more!"
serenebabe
I'm having one of those moments where I'm a little embarrassed by how
much I'm laughing and smiling at my computer. I'm in a public space and
I'm sure no one is bothered by it, but, it's still a little strange
laughing while sitting alone.
--
It's All About We! (the column)
http://www.serenebabe.net/