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Aesop Poprock posted:Not religious at all. My mom's favorite term when something goes wrong is "poo poo balls" so I don't know why I got the closeted upbringing GenX/Older millennial?
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:"Aristocrat" is kind of an old-timey word at this point and makes people think there might be some context that they're missing. Also, a lot of people's idea of an "aristocrat" being a snobby prim and proper Monopoly guy is so unshakable that the punchline will just come off random, or even that the joke is "political." I’m reminded of the prison dinner scene in Goodfellas whenever “aristocrat” is brought up. “Medium rare. Hmm, an aristocrat.”
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:"Aristocrat" is kind of an old-timey word at this point and makes people think there might be some context that they're missing. Also, a lot of people's idea of an "aristocrat" being a snobby prim and proper Monopoly guy is so unshakable that the punchline will just come off random, or even that the joke is "political." I think this is right. I don't think the joke is or was ever intended to be some kind of meta commentary about how the world's most elite society is actually made of monsters or whatever. It really is just a puddle-deep "it's funny because it's not true" kind of dumb joke.
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GreatGreen posted:I think this is right. I don't think the joke is or was ever intended to be some kind of meta commentary about how the world's most elite society is actually made of monsters or whatever. It really is just a puddle-deep "it's funny because it's not true" kind of dumb joke. It’s funny because it’s disgusting.
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Jun 11, 2022 05:18
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Nigmaetcetera posted:It’s funny because it’s disgusting. Yes, that is the other of the two aspects of the joke that are supposed to be funny.
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GreatGreen posted:I think this is right. I don't think the joke is or was ever intended to be some kind of meta commentary about how the world's most elite society is actually made of monsters or whatever. It really is just a puddle-deep "it's funny because it's not true" kind of dumb joke. Most folks' understanding of class has always been iffy. A recent-times example is how "bougie" tends to mean fancy and high class when the word it comes from "bourgeois" means boring and middle class. Edit: Well they're both used derisively for "pretentious and materialistic," but 'bougie' comes with the understanding that it's a genuine attitude of fanciness and high status while 'bourgeois' looks at it as being crass and cheap, lacking in imagination. SidneyIsTheKiller fucked around with this message at 05:55 on Jun 11, 2022 |
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Funky See Funky Do posted:It seems like with all these different and convoluted explanations for the joke that maybe nobody really gets it and that, like me, you were all just too embarrassed to admit it. Actually everyone's explanations have been pretty consistent, funny because it's gross and because of the dissonance of the aristocrats mention at the end. I don't know how you still don't get it. Maybe you're overthinking it.
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it's an inside joke among comedians of a certain era except with notoriety. if you think it's funny you're an outsider trying to deconstruct and understand comedy. if you don't get it you're the mark. it's no more simple or difficult to understand than that really.
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Jun 11, 2022 05:51
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The two comedians most famous for telling the joke both died within a few months of each other earlier this year. Isn't that a little odd?
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Pennywise the Frown posted:GenX/Older millennial? I don't know. My dad was born in 1960 and my mom was born in 1966 so whatever that falls under
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Jun 11, 2022 07:39
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Sugar Blaster posted:it's an inside joke among comedians of a certain era except with notoriety. if you think it's funny you're an outsider trying to deconstruct and understand comedy. if you don't get it you're the mark. it's no more simple or difficult to understand than that really. Tbf all those comedians were in a super pretentious documentary about the joke so if that's not overthinking it I'm not sure what is
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Jun 11, 2022 07:41
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Wait there being a documentary about the joke wasn't a joke?
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Jun 11, 2022 07:44
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Not only that but loving Penn Jillette produced it
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Well I'm not watching it.
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:"Aristocrat" is kind of an old-timey word at this point and makes people think there might be some context that they're missing. Also, a lot of people's idea of an "aristocrat" being a snobby prim and proper Monopoly guy is so unshakable that the punchline will just come off random, or even that the joke is "political." I guess if you're very, very stupid I suppose
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Jun 11, 2022 13:26
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You can only understand the joke if you experience everything mentioned in it.
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happyhippy posted:You can only understand the joke if you experience everything mentioned in it. I'm down
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Reading some of the stuff in this thread is like re-reading the discussion in The Simpsons thread about Ralph saying 'Sleep! That's where I'm a viking!', and multiple people literally did not understand that it meant Ralph dreams about being a viking. Even when the person who WROTE THE LINE said "It means Ralph dreams about being a viking, how do you not get this?" on Twitter people STILL applied some hosed up abstract meaning to it. No. You're just really, really stupid people. Big Beef City fucked around with this message at 13:43 on Jun 11, 2022 |
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Aesop Poprock posted:Not only that but loving Penn Jillette produced it He and Paul Provenza directed it actually. Don’t watch if you were ever raped by Joe Franklin.
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Jun 12, 2022 00:29
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lol some goons are dumber than Ralph Wiggum
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The Bloop posted:lol some goons are dumber than Ralph Wiggum Do you mean those of us who like the joke or those of us who don’t?
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Funky See Funky Do posted:It seems like with all these different and convoluted explanations for the joke that maybe nobody really gets it and that, like me, you were all just too embarrassed to admit it. there's really not a lot to understand about people loving around at work to make each other laugh
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Nigmaetcetera posted:He and Paul Provenza directed it actually. Don’t watch if you were ever raped by Joe Franklin. Ah yes noted famous skeptic Paul Provenza (I have no idea who this dude is)
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Aesop Poprock posted:Ah yes noted famous skeptic Paul Provenza (I have no idea who this dude is) he's one of those dudes that was famous on the brick wall 80's and early 90's standup circuit like Maron, except he never had a second wind
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaggy_dog_story i got actually yelled at at work for telling what had to be an almost 10 minute long version of the "I think I'm serving a youthful porpoise" joke to a bunch of people, extremely worth it
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Doctor Dogballs posted:i got actually yelled at at work for telling what had to be an almost 10 minute long version of the "I think I'm serving a youthful porpoise" joke to a bunch of people, extremely worth it I've gotten big laughs out of rambling the moth joke at bars and work a few times, feels good
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Doctor Dogballs posted:i got actually yelled at at work for telling what had to be an almost 10 minute long version of the "I think I'm serving a youthful porpoise" joke to a bunch of people, extremely worth it I told the entire Moth joke from Norm Mcdonald to all of Taylor Swift's dancers once and they listened politely but I could tell they were on the verge of going insane from it
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MrQwerty posted:I've gotten big laughs out of rambling the moth joke at bars and work a few times, feels good Lol hell yeah
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Big Beef City posted:Reading some of the stuff in this thread is like re-reading the discussion in The Simpsons thread about Ralph saying 'Sleep! That's where I'm a viking!', and multiple people literally did not understand that it meant Ralph dreams about being a viking. Even when the person who WROTE THE LINE said "It means Ralph dreams about being a viking, how do you not get this?" on Twitter people STILL applied some hosed up abstract meaning to it. I thought it was some expression meaning he's really good at sleeping. Although I've never heard anyone else ever say they are a "viking" at something. Maybe I'll start and in 20 years it will enter common parlance further muddying peoples interpretation of the joke and rendering BBCs post INCORRECT.
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Poohs Packin posted:I thought it was some expression meaning he's really good at sleeping. Yeah that's loving stupid.
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Being purposefully obtuse? That's where I'm a viking!
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Poohs Packin posted:Being purposefully obtuse? That's where I'm a viking! Lol
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Forums poster Metis not only told this joke but he willed it into existence.
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No one knows why the joke "the arisocrats" is funny, but more and more scientists now believe there is a genetically hardwired pathway in the brain to make humans laugh when they hear the words of that monolog uttered in specific sequences, much like a chicken can be hypnotized by drawing a line on the ground in front of it.
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I think it's more that comedians are extremely depressed human beings and most of the people who shared the joke are now dead
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Like Norm knew he was dying when he was doing this bit [video type=""]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imHj4x1JudU
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Wow that's some pretty unfunny poo poo
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Colonel Cancer posted:Wow that's some pretty unfunny poo poo Sorry I can't compare to your rapsheet where you're a comedic genius Wait no you're not funny at all and you've never been funny
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Aesop Poprock posted:Sorry I can't compare to your rapsheet where you're a comedic genius At least I'm not dead lol
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Colonel Cancer posted:At least I'm not dead lol Ok thats kind of funny
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