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.

Superb.

Reminds me of when Darth Vader goes into his local patisserie.

The lady behind the counter says "Ah bonjour, Msr Vader. Le même que d'habitude?" When he nods she starts making up his order - "Alors ... pain, pain, pain, tarte tatin."

🤣🤣 I love this 🤣

I heard Xerox and Wurlitzer are merging to make reproductive organs

🤣🤣

The joke is funny, but I’m not rolling around in hysterics and will have forgotten it in 20 minutes never mind 20 years.

I read the snapped and farted thread and don’t find it funny.

The post that me laugh the most was
' My husband and ate a fat ball for the birds'

Was years ago I was post partum and cried with laughter

Totally get you op.

i love it when when a random memory funny thought pops into your head and you can’t stop laughing.

i feel sorry for the poster who has never howled or cried laughing. What a boring life.

Something I always find funny and no one else
Does is

"A man walked into a pie shop and he says "I'll have a steak and kiddely pie please"
The shop man says "you just said kiddely"
And the customer says "oh diddle i?"

😂😂

Trevor and Simon once did a sketch where they were the Philosopher guys - and they were pondering about Bros and the deeply philosophical question they posed - "when will I be famous?"

Of course the answer was "for a short period in the late eighties."

The Glasgow version has the punchline,
”Naw, ah diddly!”

Naw, ah didnae = No, I didn’t

I love this joke, btw! 😂

I nearly spat a mouthful of shepherds pie across the table at DH when I read that! I then dissolved into the kind of silent laughter that makes your tummy hurt and you can't breathe. DH gave me a slightly quizzical look, accompanied by a chuckle at my performance and carried on eating... 😂😂😂

'Stevie Shatner Nicks'...

Apologies, but laughing like a crazy woman here!

Love this thread

I still laugh about one of the jokes Geraldine used to tell Alice at the end of Vicar of Dibley
Two nuns are driving down the road at night in Transylvania and suddenly there is a vampire in the middle of the road.
He approaches the car and the nuns are terrified and the passenger says to the driver
“Quick show him your cross” so the other nun leans out the window and yells
”Get out of the way you toothy git”

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…

Or she married Peter Cushing.............

I’m team DW here. DH seems to think he’s hilarious. DS described him as ‘what you’d get if you ordered Tim Vine on Wish’.
(Having said that, I did chuckle at the Stevie Nicks joke)

I don't get the Stevie Shatner Nicks joke🤔

And also he'd had un oeuf

Stevie shat in her nicks (knickers )

😂😂😂😂

Yep, it's the 'random memory' thing, and then the laughter (and the stony-stare) feeds the laughter.

Thank you, I was not hearing that the way I was saying it in my head.

This one always gets me and is about 30 years old

Why does Edward Woodward have so many Ds in his name?

Because if he didn't he'd be called E-war Woo-war......🤣

@MagpiePi we used to say that one when I was little- only instead of a pancake on his bum it was a tea cosy!

Yes, these are in the same vein and make me chuckle (didn't get the "Depardieu" one right away, which makes it even funnier when the penny drops. But I get why some folk don't find them funny.

😂