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>time for me to confess Don't feel that way. I can totally understand why some people wouldn't "get" (or I'd put it "appreciate") The Far Side. It's a very p

>time for me to confess Don't feel that way. I can totally understand why some people wouldn't "get" (or I'd put it "appreciate") The Far Side. It's a very particular kind of humor, and it's fine that it's "not everyone's cup of tea". I, for example, absolutely loathe poetry. It's like the cilantro of literature of me, and I don't have the gene that makes it not taste like soap. ... Who cares!?! I have this "joke" that I dearly love, that I've never met anyone who gets it. It is a bad joke, largely because nobody gets it. It doesn't imply something in me or something lacking in ... everyone else. Humor is just what you find in it. It is: "Well, I defended my thesis in comparative literature, but it seems like he's got a pretty healthy pulse to me..."

rkomorn 1y ago
> "Well, I defended my thesis in comparative literature, but it seems like he's got a pretty healthy pulse to me..." Definitely sounds like the kind of joke I'd like if I understood it.
- omegaham 1y ago
  A more obvious setup to the joke is "Is there a doctor on this plane???" "Well yes, but I defended my thesis in comparative literature..."
  - rkomorn 1y ago
    Ugh. Of course. That makes a lot of sense. Didn't come anywhere close to getting it on my own though!
  - linsomniac 1y ago
    Right, but what makes it work for me is that you have to bring the setup to the table. I think The Far Side is similar in a lot of its humor.
wussboy 1y ago
I'm totally stealing that. Fantastic. And, if you want and if the Fates allow, you may have my favourite, completely unappreciated joke: "A time traveller!" [wait a few seconds] "Knock knock."
- kps 1y ago
  https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-07-26 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-07-26
  - wussboy 1y ago
    I love it, but that would never work in the wild. Mine does, for some value of “work”.
- IAmBroom 1y ago
  I do that as "Faster-than-light neutrinos".
Waterluvian 1y ago
My favourite own joke is when I’m sitting on a beach towel or grass or whatnot and I want to get up, I’ll say, “I can’t stand sitting, so I need a hand standing.” Nobody ever finds that amusing but it kills me every time.
- linsomniac 1y ago
  One of those situations where I say: "I'm hilarious... to myself."

rkomorn 1y ago

> "Well, I defended my thesis in comparative literature, but it seems like he's got a pretty healthy pulse to me..." Definitely sounds like the kind of joke I'd like if I understood it.

omegaham 1y ago
A more obvious setup to the joke is "Is there a doctor on this plane???" "Well yes, but I defended my thesis in comparative literature..."
- rkomorn 1y ago
  Ugh. Of course. That makes a lot of sense. Didn't come anywhere close to getting it on my own though!
- linsomniac 1y ago
  Right, but what makes it work for me is that you have to bring the setup to the table. I think The Far Side is similar in a lot of its humor.

wussboy 1y ago

I'm totally stealing that. Fantastic. And, if you want and if the Fates allow, you may have my favourite, completely unappreciated joke: "A time traveller!" [wait a few seconds] "Knock knock."

kps 1y ago
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-07-26 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-07-26
- wussboy 1y ago
  I love it, but that would never work in the wild. Mine does, for some value of “work”.
IAmBroom 1y ago
I do that as "Faster-than-light neutrinos".

Waterluvian 1y ago

My favourite own joke is when I’m sitting on a beach towel or grass or whatnot and I want to get up, I’ll say, “I can’t stand sitting, so I need a hand standing.” Nobody ever finds that amusing but it kills me every time.

linsomniac 1y ago
One of those situations where I say: "I'm hilarious... to myself."