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.

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I laugh whenever I randomly remember one of my favourite headlines, which was on an article about Katie Hopkins taking ketamine (I'm not sure why). The headline was "A-hole in a K-hole."

I loved that thread too!
I'm with you OP, there's nothing like those stupid jokes that come back unexpectedly years later and make you giggle

I still chuckle at 'What do you call a French man in sandals?' - Phillipe - Phillope 😆.

Stevie Shatner Nicks 😁

😂This is another favourite which is remembered from time to time (definitely showing my age).

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I tried to explain this one to my 5 year old earlier and they just didn’t get it. The more I tried to explain, the more I laughed. I had tears streaming down my face by the end of it. Their confused little face nearly finished me off.

There was another one that always makes me chuckle when I read the Gruffalo now, which came from the stage show version. The actor playing Mouse asked the actor playing Snake what his name was. He replied Joaquin. Because when people see him they shout ‘Whack him!’ Not strictly Julia Donaldson cannon, but had me in fits.

The above post should quote the Phillipe Phlop joke, not Stevie and her soiled underwear

If Dire Straits and Chris Rea did a collaboration would they be called Dire Rea?

I was on holiday with a friend who was brought up to be overly concerned about the shame of committing a social faux pas.

We were visiting a beautiful Garden and had brought a picnic. Around lunchtime I spotted a strategically placed picnic table with benches, and suggested we avail ourselves to sit and eat. He wasn't sure. "Maybe it's for rustic effect only?" he said, looking worried.

For some reason that made me laugh like a loon.

Near our table was an enclosure containing two magnificently strutting turkeys. My friend couldn't see the birds and hadn't realised they were present. People kept stopping and lining up to admire them.

It transpired that my friend thought they were stopping to stare at us in immense disapproval, because we so dared to ruin their view of rural idyll with our luncheon.

I'm not sure what tickled me so much but the scenario made me giggle for months afterwards when I remembered it.

For some reason the thought of a picnic table being there only for ‘rustic effect’ is totally cracking me up LauderSyme

I don't understand Whoopi Depardieu :(

I ADORED Trevor and Simon. I had both their videos 🤣

Now they used to make me 'howl' and 'cry' with laughter 🤣

My husband got me a personalised signed photo for Christmas one year and to this day, it's the best gift I've received.

Nor do I!

Whoopi Doopy Do

I don’t understand this , can someone explain?

I am not 100% sure if it is a direct quote or what, but in Star Wars, Darth Vader caused pain to many people and lived in excruciating pain himself. He once called the desert planet Tatooine home, as did his son Luke Skywalker.

When you say the words as written it sounds like you're singing Darth Vader's theme tune. Although really it should be "pain, pain, pain, tarte tatin, tarte tatin" but I missed the end off by mistake 🥴

Yeah you pronounce it in French.

Pain =pan

So said: pan pan pan, tarte tatan tarte tatan

Which sounds kinda like the star wars music

It's hilarious! Don't let it die

What did 'snapped and farted' actually mean though? Obviously I know what farted means, but snapped?

The spray painted pigeon thread is one that still makes me laugh

This shows how long I've been here

To throw water over a pigeon I've just spray painted? www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/1465377-To-throw-water-over-a-pigeon-Ive-just-spray-painted

If we're doing rubbish jokes, what about Beyonce marrying Roy Castle (RIP) and being Beyonce Castle?

Funniest thing I've read on here recently was the 'Hunt the Shit' game someone posted on here, regarding stupid games played in the 80's.

Just really cracked me up