[Kunzite]

A party of adventurers walks into a tavern, fully armed, and sit at a table.
The bartender comes and asks: "hey, guys, why do you have your weapons ready?"
"Mimics", says the party leader.
The party laughs, the bartender laughs, the table laughs.

[lesmore49]

I found both of these jokes very funny, the first, second, and perhaps even third time

At this point, you may see limited reaction, because they've been around, in one form or another, several times

There are no 'new' jokes. Pretty well every joke there ever was....has been told a multitude of times in a multitude of cultures.

At best jokes may be variations on a familiar chord. If you want originality in humor...chances are very good you won't find it.

I think we have been through this before...

[WPRESTO]

A salesman tried to sell me a slightly more powerful computer, but it was a bit too much.

That's a line as old as stone axes.

[lesmore49]

Yesterday I saw a guy spill all his Scrabble letters on the road.

I asked him, “What’s the word on the street?”

[bxf]

There are no 'new' jokes. Pretty well every joke there ever was....has been told a multitude of times in a multitude of cultures.

At best jokes may be variations on a familiar chord. If you want originality in humor...chances are very good you won't find it.

I think we have been through this before...

It appears that my comment is being taken not as i had intended Please see my subsequent comment here:

The Joke Thread - Page 209 - PentaxForums.com

[slartibartfast01]

It appears that my comment is being taken not as i had intended Please see my subsequent comment here:

The Joke Thread - Page 209 - PentaxForums.com

I just did a search in this thread for "ostrich" and "watermelon" and the only results were the recent jokes......

[clackers]

"My boss came to me at lunch: 'Where the hell have you been? I've been trying to find you all morning.'

I shrugged and said, 'Good employees are hard to find.'"

[clackers]

A party of adventurers walks into a tavern, fully armed, and sit at a table.
The bartender comes and asks: "hey, guys, why do you have your weapons ready?"
"Mimics", says the party leader.
The party laughs, the bartender laughs, the table laughs.

At least one great Red Dwarf episode was based on the mimicking monster idea.

[Digitalis]

[lesmore49]

The worst pub I’ve ever been in was called The Fiddle.

It was a vile inn.

[Liney]

There are no 'new' jokes. Pretty well every joke there ever was....has been told a multitude of times in a multitude of cultures.

At best jokes may be variations on a familiar chord. If you want originality in humor...chances are very good you won't find it.

I think we have been through this before...

Was it not the greeks who said that there were only seven basic stories, every story since then has been a variation on one of them.

[ehrwien]

Was it not the greeks who said that there were only seven basic stories, every story since then has been a variation on one of them.

Nah, the Greeks got that from the Swedes who said that every photo has already been taken, but not by everyone...

You Tube

You Tube

[robtcorl]

Nah, the Greeks got that from the Swedes who said that every photo has already been taken, but not by everyone...

Vemödalen: The Fear That Everything Has Already Been Done - YouTube

Neat video! I think I saw one of my hummingbird shots in there.

edit, One series not shown is the bow of a canoe on pristine waters.
Where are you Norm?

[WPRESTO]

Nah, the Greeks got that from the Swedes who said that every photo has already been taken, but not by everyone...

Vemödalen: The Fear That Everything Has Already Been Done - YouTube

Does anyone remember what was said by a guest speaker at a graduation ceremony? As a professor, I was obliged to attend one of these excruciating events every year and a tiny number were memorable for one reason or another*, but I do remember one speaker at a graduation around the turn of the millennium who was commenting on things that had changed in his lifetime. As an example, he reeled off a list about about thirty acronyms that were never heard when he was in his teens. I cannot remember the list, a great many were related to computers, especially from EMAIL and the WEB (there's two of them), but the fact of his recitation has stuck in my mind better than anything said by over thirty other guest speakers whose presentations I endured.

*Two others graduations that were memorable:

1) the person responsible failed to reserve an indoor arena for graduation (there was no facility on campus large enough at that time) so the ceremony was held in a gigantic rented tent. A fierce thunderstorm came up, drenching not only the overflow crowd outside, but blowing in the side curtains sending parents and relatives in the adjoining bleachers scurrying to avoid the wet, and the noise of the pounding of rain drowning out the reading of names of the graduates.


2) A guest who was to receive an honorary degree was late, very late, holding up the entire ceremony and making everyone restless. The honored person finally appeared, accepted the degree, made a few desultory remarks (praise be), then thanked some unheard of school (= they could not remember or say correctly the name of the college granting the honor - good grief!)

[timb64]

Guess who I bumped into at the opticians today........everyone!