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.

They sound the same in my accent! 🤷‍♀️😅

Oh god I've got someone coming round in a minute... I'm in tears with the marrowfat joke! I now can't read the rest of the thread! 😂

I still think it sounds nothing like Doopy do 🤷‍♀️
Fork handles works because the only difference really, is the sound of the “o.”

Many years ago I told my boss, a well known and respected businessman in the town, a joke:
A Scotsmen went into a cake shop. He asked "is that an éclair or a meringue?"
Assistant replied " no you're right,it's an eclair"
My boss collapsed into fits of laughter that lasted about 4 hours. Every time the joke came into his head he started laughing again. He got stopped by traffic police on the motorway later in as he started laughing again and had to pull over because he couldn't drive straight 🤣🤣

I dont get it either. Does anyone?

Was hoping this would have been explained by now...

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he is just a fuckwit

That’s it. That’s the punchline

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That Stevie Nicks joke is pretty good! I'll have to remember that one!

I'm terrible for laughing at things that happened YEARS ago, whenever I remember them. And it's always really stupid non-funny things that get me hysterical.
One of them happened about 10 years ago, and was my mum running to catch a closing gate.
Another was my grandma (this is probably 20 years ago) individually unwrapping slices of plastic cheese from their wrappers and putting them on a plate, and they just glued themselves into one massive lump of plastic cheese.

Both times I feel into complete hysterics, and once I'm gone, I can't stop.

So good I sent it to everyone I know 😂😂😂😂

It's just a shaggy dog story. A long rambling joke that goes nowhere. The joke is that you are expecting some kind of explanation or punchline and there isn't one.
It's a stupid, unfunny waste of time in other words.

Lol

this thread is great out outing the fun sponges

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It's funny how many people don't get it. It makes me laugh a lot because it's so ridiculous. I'm glad at least someone else enjoyed it!

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@InsolentNoise woo someone else agrees 😂 I expect your version is the right one I can't remember it well but it always makes me giggle aw diddly

Why are the French so hard?
Because they eat pain for breakfast

Oh, when DH and I were first going out many years ago we were talking about our childhoods and he said his mates dared him to go into the chippy and ask for a steak and kiddle-eye pie, so he did, and did the "that's what I said, diddle I?" when the server queried it.

I'd never heard it before and it made me laugh so much imagining him giggling to himself going in and saying it. and his mates giggling at the door.

It's very childish but it still makes me laugh years later, you're not alone!

Same. It’s one of the few jokes that I can actually remember 😂

I don't get the genie one. If it's supposed to be because you expect a punchline but there isn't one, then I must be wierd because that's just not how my mind worked. Because each time the bloke asked for his wish I thought "bloody stupid thing to ask for", I didn't actually expect it to go anywhere.

Maybe I'm just odd.....🤔I just don't find a rambly story that goes nowhere inherently funny. It's not clever, and it's not silly either. It's more just stupid than silly. Which makes it become irritating.

I really enjoyed the genie joke.
You see, you expect him to have some great plan and for a reveal at the end.
Turns out he's just a fuckwit.
It's the surprise that makes it funny.

But it doesn't work if it's apparent he's a fuckwit from the start. I actually thought it was one of the old Englishman, Irishman and Scotsman jokes that aren't PC anymore, and you'd deliberately left those details out because of the non-PC thing. But without those details the joke no longer works. I think maybe that's why some of us are a bit quizzical. Maybe those of a certain age who remember the Englishman, Irishman, Scotsman jokes.

But it's still not funny. I read the whole bloody overlong thing it, thinking, okay, number 3 appears to be making bizarre, apparently shite choices, but perhaps the punchline will be that they turned out not to be so stupid after all? But, no, as it turned out, they were shit. What's so funny about that? 🤷‍♀️

Yeah that’s the point. There is no happy ending. Or clever twist.

He’s just a fuckwit. Why is that funny? Why is anything funny?!

Well, if I'd known it was actually going to be an exercise in philosophy...! 😅

*disclaimer: I still don't find it funny.