Glaciers
Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
Yeah I believe “at least here in Commieforia”
Now there you go, good on you. Glassparman said: “I tend to be a jokester and love to look at things from the lighter side”
My pew pews are pretty!
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Now there you go, good on you. Glassparman said: “I tend to be a jokester and love to look at things from the lighter side”
I tend to believe that it was originally used that way too, but many didn't get the joke and started spewing "pew-pew" like it was a legitimate term for the lack of knowing any better.
Seems everyone has to make their mark by coming up with a new nickname or diminutive for something without bothering to look it up and see if someone else hasn't already done that. Diminutives of diminutives, or worse, diminutives which have more syllables than the original word? Making up their own acronyms and abbreviations, using a slash or dash in a ratio, like twist rates?
Oh, THIS one: "SHOTTY!" I'm sorry, but a shotgun, to ME epitomizes SERIOUSNESS, and some will peg it with such a cutsie name, and with the same number of syllables, so it's no more efficient to say "SHOTTY" than to say shotgun.
See? I'm a grouchy old guy who thinks effectively communicating is important and I grouse openly about it.
In contrast, @glassparman makes light of it. I should probably try to follow his example and be less a less miserable being.
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LOL! Yeah, I'm pretty content being miserable too!
There was an expression in the Army: "A happy soldier is a bi___in' soldier." Meaning, if they're not complaining, you need to worry.
Petrol & Powder
Well-Known Member
Don't get me started on song lyrics that are lost on younger generations, or movie quotes that young folks have no idea are movie quotes.
It makes you feel old when you say, Round up the usual suspects" and no one around realizes that is a line from Casablanca. Seriously, they have never seen Casablanca.
Ok, one reference to 867-5309.
To fuel a company car I have to enter an employee number and the vehicle milage. One day I pulled up to the pump and I had Tommy TuTone blasting “Jenny” on the radio. I couldn’t get the mileage entered correctly to save my life. I had to wait until the song was over before my brain could process anymore numbers.
It makes you feel old when you say, Round up the usual suspects" and no one around realizes that is a line from Casablanca. Seriously, they have never seen Casablanca.
Ok, one reference to 867-5309.
To fuel a company car I have to enter an employee number and the vehicle milage. One day I pulled up to the pump and I had Tommy TuTone blasting “Jenny” on the radio. I couldn’t get the mileage entered correctly to save my life. I had to wait until the song was over before my brain could process anymore numbers.
glassparman
"OK, OK, I'm going as fast as I don't want to go!"
Tommy TuTone - the one hit wonder!
glassparman
"OK, OK, I'm going as fast as I don't want to go!"
I saw a coworker the other day squeezing one of those stress balls. I said, "carefully Mr. Whipple, you don't want to get in trouble".
I guess my mind is warped that I still remember Charmin commercials!
I guess my mind is warped that I still remember Charmin commercials!
glassparman
"OK, OK, I'm going as fast as I don't want to go!"
L-S-M-F-T. Lucky Strike means fine tobacco. So cool and easy on the draw
Yep, I used to listed to the Jack Benny show . . . albeit reruns on the radio.
Yep, I used to listed to the Jack Benny show . . . albeit reruns on the radio.
RBHarter
West Central AR
My phone prefix growing up was 867 .
The older gentleman that often answered was very amiable and would talk to whoever called . His wife Jennifer not so much I guess.
I told a couple of coworkers the other day I'd read that Roger Daltry had started a dog walking service. It appears that in fact the Who let the dogs out . Crickets .
I told someone that I didn't think it was possible to ruin anything done by the Eurythmics , but Marilyn Manson had proven that even Sweet Dreams could be totaled. "Wait that wasn't original"? Guess what ? Metallica's biggest seller is cover album of Bob Seager's greatest hits.....
Humor isnt as funny as it used to be the walrus in a smoking Prius eating ice cream just doesn't play out like it did when it was an Eskimo with an Evinrude and mayo .
I guess the Italian snow tire thing isn't funny either .
I think we all grew up with double meaning innuendo, word play , and sarcasm as the very core of it all .
"Say goodnight Gracie . Goodnight Gracie !"
Who can forget agent 86 that was always cut off , Ms Good Night , and " sure I'd love to smoke a wild turkey! How do you keep it lit ? Usually right out of the bottle , but lately I'm using a coffee mug ."
The older gentleman that often answered was very amiable and would talk to whoever called . His wife Jennifer not so much I guess.
I told a couple of coworkers the other day I'd read that Roger Daltry had started a dog walking service. It appears that in fact the Who let the dogs out . Crickets .
I told someone that I didn't think it was possible to ruin anything done by the Eurythmics , but Marilyn Manson had proven that even Sweet Dreams could be totaled. "Wait that wasn't original"? Guess what ? Metallica's biggest seller is cover album of Bob Seager's greatest hits.....
Humor isnt as funny as it used to be the walrus in a smoking Prius eating ice cream just doesn't play out like it did when it was an Eskimo with an Evinrude and mayo .
I guess the Italian snow tire thing isn't funny either .
I think we all grew up with double meaning innuendo, word play , and sarcasm as the very core of it all .
"Say goodnight Gracie . Goodnight Gracie !"
Who can forget agent 86 that was always cut off , Ms Good Night , and " sure I'd love to smoke a wild turkey! How do you keep it lit ? Usually right out of the bottle , but lately I'm using a coffee mug ."
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
I think most attempts at humor in print fail when the reader doesn't realize that there is an attempt being made to be funny. Personally, if someone wants to call something a pew-pew or a bullet head or a motor instead of an engine in an attempt to be funny, it's fine by me! I've had a zillion jokes fail, who am I to judge?!
Ian
Notorious member
"Looks like you've blown a seal".....
Way I heard it was a mechanic, a penguin, a Buick, and ice cream.
BOHICA was one I learned the other day at work from a retired sailor. Speaking of sailors, they call them "shells". Propellant comes in big sacks. No cartridge case.
Way I heard it was a mechanic, a penguin, a Buick, and ice cream.
BOHICA was one I learned the other day at work from a retired sailor. Speaking of sailors, they call them "shells". Propellant comes in big sacks. No cartridge case.
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Funny you should mention that one. Just last week, I heard that one from a lit professor of,... wait for it,... germane lineage.
His name ends with an "o"...
He isn't German,...
OK, maybe it's not that nothing is funny any more or that satire and parody are a tough play in text. Maybe some of use just tell crummy jokes.
By the way, if anyone actually "got" my joke, don't admit to it. You will look like you have as lame a sense of humor as I do.
EDIT: By the way, I use my humor as a learning tool in class. If students won't ask or answer questions and force ME to do all the talking, I threaten to start telling my lame jokes. It works!
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Oh, man... I am impressed that someone can stoop to my level.
Hmmm, "baited" breath? Here, buddy, have some gum...