# Coping with the Humor-Impaired **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 17, 2003, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359 "2003-04-17T17:21:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/21 "2003-04-17T19:51:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by truthbot \* > \*\*I remember thumbing through the local newspaper one day. And finding a full-page flyer that stated a local men’s wear shop had “Dress Shits” on sale. 20% off, IIRC. > > That was almost thirty years ago, and it still makes me chuckle to this very day. Typos are fodder for humor. > > Screamy chilled corn soup consumption may very well lead to Dress Shits. IMHO. \*\* This reminds me of an ad the hub and I saw for lawn tractors probably a good 10 years ago now that we still make jokes/laugh about. One of the models was featured as having “a shit on the go” transmission. One wonders if there was a hole conveniently placed in the seat. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/22 "2003-04-17T19:54:01Z")
I came across some of my favourite typos while working as a proofreader in a savings & loan. _Salutation on a letter_: Dear Sir or Madman _Boilerplate contract_: If you accept this officer, please sign below. _Property description of a house on a lake_: House has a six-foot dick Luckily for me, most of my coworkers found these to be as funny as I did. The first one, though, has to be my favourite of all time. I nearly let it go out that way. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/23 "2003-04-17T19:59:46Z")
I came across some of my favourite typos while working as a proofreader in a savings & loan. _Salutation on a letter_: Dear Sir or Madman _Boilerplate contract_: If you accept this officer, please sign below. _Property description of a house on a lake_: House has a six-foot dick Luckily for me, most of my coworkers found these to be as funny as I did. The first one, though, has to be my favourite of all time. I nearly let it go out that way. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Cobweb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Cobweb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Cobweb)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/24 "2003-04-17T20:02:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > \*\*Dammit, that just made my day. Hilarious. And also, anything having to do with screaming food is likewise, chucklable. > > J \*\* One might even find it upchucklable. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/25 "2003-04-17T20:03:22Z")
Hey! I only hit submit once! And I didn’t even refresh. _pout_ Spoiled my perfect no-double-post record. Sorry 'bout that, folks. ---
**Author:** ![Alto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Alto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alto)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/26 "2003-04-17T20:11:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by truthbot \* > \*\*I remember thumbing through the local newspaper one day. And finding a full-page flyer that stated a local men’s wear shop had “Dress Shits” on sale. 20% off, IIRC. > > That was almost thirty years ago, and it still makes me chuckle to this very day. \*\* I was working on a book once about baseball. One of the chapter titles in the first proofs appeared as “The Shit Heard Round the World.” I regretted having to fix it in the proofs, but I still have a copy on my bulletin board. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/27 "2003-04-17T20:15:24Z")
I think you should have let the “madman” letter go out that way, **Morgyn.** That’s freakin’ hilarious. Maybe I’ll have to start “accidentally” using that salutation on my official correspondence to The Man. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*How do they _survive?!_ \*\* They don’t. Their brains were long ago transferred to jars, and their bodies are animated with orgone and intravenously administered Twinkie filling. They aren’t dangerous, usually, unless they suspect you’ve somehow discovered the truth about them. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/28 "2003-04-17T20:16:49Z")
This is also reminding me of a god-awful but very funny typo that fortunately never made it out the door. At the time I was responsible for writing press releases at my job. At the top of the release you always put your contact information, title, etc. I managed to list myself as the “pubic relations coordinator.” The part that really made it bad was that at the time I worked for a Catholic high school for girls. ---
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/29 "2003-04-17T20:23:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Morgyn \* > \*\*Hey! I only hit submit once! And I didn’t even refresh. _pout_ Spoiled my perfect no-double-post record. Sorry 'bout that, folks. \*\* Hey, I think it was worth repeating - “Dear Sir or Madman” made me laugh so hard I had tears pouring down my face! Thank you for making my day that much better. 🙂 Man, I love typos. ---
**Author:** ![Einmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Einmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Einmon)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/30 "2003-04-17T20:25:29Z")
You forgot to mention that the people who look at you with a blank face when you say something funny and instantly correct you are the people that will preface everything they deem funny with: “You know what’s REALLY FUNNY?” (so you can’t MISS the joke that will follow) Then they will proceed to say: “The story about \!” It doesn’t matter what you answer, they will then start telling you the whole thing from the beginning and wonder why you don’t laugh about the punchline that follows after what seems like an hour of pointless rambling. Gah! ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/31 "2003-04-17T20:35:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lizard \* > \*\*They move to Sweden, or become my sister-in-law. \*\* Or, if they do not become **Lizard** ’s sister-in-law, they become my mother-in-law. She has no sense of humor, period. She thinks Fox News is _ **for real** _, for Chrissakes!! ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/32 "2003-04-17T20:41:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Morgyn \* > **_Property description of a house on a lake_: House has a six-foot dick** :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/33 "2003-04-17T21:30:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rockle \* > \*\*Or, if they do not become **Lizard** ’s sister-in-law, they become my mother-in-law. She has no sense of humor, period. She thinks Fox News is _ **for real** _, for Chrissakes!! \*\* Hey! I have a (terrific, if I may say so myself) sense of humor and _I_ thought Fox News was real. Then, one day, when they were talking about the US potentially declaring war on Iraq, at the bottom of the screen I saw it. It was in big, italicized letters. It said, simply, ‘Iraqnophobia’. I know, I know, I should have caught on when they gave Bill a show or at least when they hired Geraldo. What can I say…some days you _can_ get the fastball by JuanitaTech. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/34 "2003-04-17T21:36:55Z")
I love unintentionally hilarious typos and puns. I once worked for an attorney who bought every new item of computer technology. Once he tried voice recognition software, and some of the ridiculous gibberish it generated had me laughing so hard that I was wetting my pants. When I tried to tell him why it was so funny, he would just gape at me slack-jawed. Funny names are also a good source of hilarity. To this day, the name “Professor P. Dicky Yip” has me in stitches. His name was listed as one of the teachers of a law seminar years ago. ::Snicker:: “Professor P. Dicky Yip” ---
**Author:** ![MamaHen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@MamaHen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MamaHen)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/35 "2003-04-17T21:39:27Z")
My husband is humor-impaired. Before we married he faked having a sense of humor. It was after the wedding that I noticed the vacant look in his eye when I told a joke. Now it amuses me greatly to make jokes that I know he’ll never get. It’s my goal in life to actually tell him something that will make him laugh til he cries. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/36 "2003-04-17T22:44:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Morgyn \* > **_Property description of a house on a lake_: House has a six-foot dick** It’s actually five, but we’re humoring the house. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/37 "2003-04-18T00:18:30Z")
In a recently-published book an uncle of mine wrote, a character is referred to having “the foulest _moth_ at the sawmill.” ---
**Author:** ![Payne\_N.Diaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Payne\_N.Diaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Payne_N.Diaz)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/38 "2003-04-18T00:27:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Morgyn \* > \*\* > _Property description of a house on a lake_: House has a six-foot dick > > \*\* What was his name? ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/39 "2003-04-18T01:06:12Z")
Heck, even this _thread_ is cracking me up! My husband is also humor-impaired although I’ve been able to make small adjustments to his humor level over the years. Repeated exposure to my _completely insane_ family has worked rather well, as has my laughing out loud late at night at something here on the SDMB and waking him up. Then I make him read the thread or comment that cracked me up. Okay, so he doesn’t always find the humor in that but I think it’s pretty funny.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Claptree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@Claptree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claptree)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/40 "2003-04-18T01:22:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lizard \* > \*\*They move to Sweden, or become my sister-in-law. \*\* HEY! I resemble that remark! Swedes are funny, at least to look at. We gave the world ABBA and Survivor, ffs. Doesn’t get much funnier than that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359.md?page=3)