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Date: Saturday, 18 June 2005 14:29 (UTC)Q: How many lesbian separatists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: That's not funny.
(BTW, I'm still pondering the Grasshalme.)
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Date: Saturday, 18 June 2005 14:38 (UTC)"A rabbi, a priest, and a Buddhist monk are walking along the street and the rabbi says, 'hey, had you heard the one about us?'"
Or takes on existing, well-known jokes, where the humour comes from the fact that the expected punchline isn't there:
"Why was six afraid of seven?
It wasn't. Numbers are not sentient and thus incapable of feeling fear."
(Though I feel that this particular example is a bit lacking, but merely the fact that the punchline is not "Because seven ate nine" catches you off-guard.)
Or that otherwise take jokes literally when you expect this not to be the case:
"What do you get when you cross a chicken with a centipede?
A media circus about the debate over the morals and ethics of genetic engineering."
I also kind of appreciated the "worm in apple" joke (the original version of which is also one of my favourites), though I doubt I'd tell it to others.
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Date: Saturday, 18 June 2005 15:53 (UTC)SomethingAwful had an anti-joke contest a bit ago. My favorite one from that (paraphrased):
A horse walks into a bar. The barkeep says, "Why the long face?" The horse says, "I am pondering the ramifications of my sentient nature, and the extent of my legal protections."
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Date: Saturday, 18 June 2005 16:01 (UTC)Two muffins are sitting in an oven, baking.
One muffin says to the other, "Wow, it's getting pretty hot in here."
The other replies, "Aaaaaah holy ****, a talking muffin!"
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Date: Sunday, 19 June 2005 01:45 (UTC)no subject
Date: Saturday, 18 June 2005 16:01 (UTC)Found the link (http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2792) to the SA article I mentioned.