to still find this funny after 20-odd years?

[nietzscheanvibe]

Light-hearted.

I started thinking about this after reading the recent “snapped and farted” thread, which cracked me up - not the subject of the thread itself, just the initial typo - it almost had me in tears and I've laughed each time it has popped into my head over the past week or so. I’m aware that many posters didn’t find it funny at all - when I showed the post to DW she just sat stony-faced, which cracked me up even more.

Anyway… I remember reading a joke in a newspaper ‘daily diary’ type column around 20 years ago - it was a pun on the names of Star Trek actor William Shatner (Captain Kirk) and Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks, and it went like this: “If Stevie Nicks married William Shatner, would she be Stevie Shatner Nicks?” (stops typing to wipe away tears of laughter).

Now, I don’t think of it that often, but it does come to mind a couple of times a year, and it still creases me up every time (particularly when, on repeating it aloud, I get the same stony-faced response from DW each time). So, AIBU…

You are being unreasonable: get over it, stop torturing your poor DW with an old joke which wasn’t funny then, and isn’t funny now.

You are NOT being unreasonable: it’s funny, and laughter is good for the soul.

That is funny

But snapped and farted wasn't a typo....she had IBS!

Snapped and farted was so funny because she meant it, and couldn’t see why it was a completely irrelevant piece of information!

It's up there with my partners "dad" jokes. It actually takes me a lot of effort to pull off the stone cold stare and I do mainly find him funny, but I like to try and maintain my intellectual superiority

Hmmm

I'm going for neither and I do like a classic cheesy joke.

Snapped and farted wasn't funny and wasn't a typo. Was it? Just odd.

Wow, @CoCoBeeBee and @Choice4567 , I didn't realise, I'm off now to read the updates!

People found it funny thinking it was a typo. And when we found out it wasn’t it kind of made it funnier. It was definitely funny at the time, but not for people reading the thread now.

I heard a similar joke years ago that still makes me smile - if Whoopi Goldberg married Gerard Depardieu she’d be known as Whoopi Depardieu…

@jeaux90 it's definitely an acquired skill, but she'd say I've given her plenty opportunity to practice 😀

Just coming to express love that you used the description "creased" 😂 You're showing your age!

I love this very much 😂😂

For some reason I absolutely howl at psychiatrist jokes, no idea why. That one that was doing the rounds a few years ago, with Jacob Rees-Mogg reclining in the House of Commons and a psychiatrist at his side saying “These Brexit benefits, are they in the room with us now?” 😂😂😂

I never read the 'snapped and farted' thread but did wonder what had gone on.

This always makes me laugh afer 20+ years:

Not last night but the night before,
Three little tom cats came knocking at my door,
One played the bagpipes,
One played a drum,
And one had a pancake stuck to his bum.

Well, it gave me a bit of a nozzy laugh, but I certainly wouldn't be 'creased up' two decades later and if you told me that same joke a couple of times a year, every year, yeah, that would be a bit annoying.

Do you also 'howl' and 'cry' at other slightly funny things?

😂

I saw the thread at the time and didn't think it was a typo. I was double checking after OP.

Im just a miserable cow.

I'm team DW. Toilet humour doesn't do it for me.
I thought snapped and farted turned out to be a troll.

YANBU.

I still crease up over a Mumsnet post. Someone had meant to text their DH asking what their coffee machine was called so she could buy the correct pods. Instead of texting their DH, they'd text someone else, who responded with 'I don't know, but it looks like a Derek to me'.

It may have been another name, but whenever I think about it, it really makes me laugh.

I went to the zoo the other day. We paid quite a lot of money but I got really pissed off because there was only one animal - a small, fluffy pedigree dog. It was a shih Tzu.

😆👏

Snapped and farted was obviously a troll, as are many of the ‘classic hilarity’ threads. I think it lacked effort to be that funny, now the Norland Nanny troll, they put in long term effort…

@SweetFemaleAttitude It's not so much that I tell the joke twice a year, just that I remember it and say the punchline out loud, usually only after some kind of memory prompt - a Fleetwood Mac song on an advert during a Star Trek film, for example (and I think she probably enjoys the opportunity to engage the 'stony-stare') 😄

Some are just better written down 😂

Why did the French chef take his own life?

because he’d lost his huile d’olive

The last time I went to B&Q a young male shop assistant approached me and asked if I wanted decking. Fortunately I was quick enough to get the first punch in but I'm never going there again, that's for sure.

I like this one, saw it on Comic Relief a couple of years ago, when they had various presenters reading out jokes, this one was read out by Nag Munchetty and she didn't get it initially, so her response made it even funnier. should be on YouTube, worth a look.

😂😂😂😂

I am probably not the right person to comment as I find all sorts of silly things funny even years later. I still like this joke what do you call a pea in an Arab headdress? Yasser Marrowfat. I remember being on a training course where the instructor was called Mr Mann made me laugh especially when a colleague said ‘I wonder if his first name is Hugh’.