# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/61 "2003-04-18T14:52:21Z")
We are not rednecks. It’s geographically impossible. We may or may not be woodchucks, but we are definitely not rednecks. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/62 "2003-04-18T15:00:57Z")
I am not sure what is worse a HIP or someone who is a HIP _and_ has an absolutely fake forced-I-Love-Life-Laugh that grates on my nerves. This individual whom shall remain nameless, (My SIL), everyonce in awhile, attempts sarcasm. It ain’t purty. After a particular devastatingly bomb which everyone at the table went , " Huh?" (It made no sense whatsoever, and to be fair she is surrounded by 1st graders all day long and on weekends, by brain dead Left Behind Types.) I replied, " Nice try. Leave the jokes to the professionals. Accept your weakness and I relish and mustard mine." Boy, did that put a bee up her nose. My husband has a fair to middlin’ sense of humor, which I find to be miraculous, since he is very german despite being born here, but christonapogostick, German’s in general need to take humor lessons. I feel like Robin Williams before an audience of mimes when I am surrounded by germans. oye. The stuff of mine that he says is not funny, is stuff that I have learned over the years will be a knee slapping, eye wiping scream. simply, if he says, " That’s not funny, I wouldn’t tell it." I sally forth and get the laugh. As for his parents, well, the hardest I’ve seen them laugh was when Mr. Ujest and I were dating and he was bringing me a bowl of soup down some stairs. He slipped and bounced down five steps, hot soup flying every where and his parents had tears in their eyes. ( Mr. Ujest’s tailbone ended up going through his skin and he had to get surgery.) So, feel for me at family gatherings. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/63 "2003-04-18T15:02:16Z")
[quote[I replied, " Nice try. Leave the jokes to the professionals. Accept your weakness **as** I relish and mustard mine." ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/64 "2003-04-18T15:03:00Z")
> [@](#): > > I replied, " Nice try. Leave the jokes to the professionals. Accept your weakness **as** I relish and mustard mine." ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/65 "2003-04-18T15:21:49Z")
**Ego\_Mk2** , how can “screamy chilled corn soup” _not_ be funny?! ---
**Author:** ![Zap\_Rowsdower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3da27b/32.png) [@Zap\_Rowsdower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zap_Rowsdower)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/66 "2003-04-18T15:56:24Z")
You know, I am really disappointed with this thread. I had a certain image of **Eve** built up in my mind. I saw her living in a huge midtown apartment, getting up at the crack of noon to finish the latest chapter on some silent movie starlette. Wearing a flowing white silk robe and high heeled fuzzy slippers carrying her poodle (or fluffy white cat). Next she proceeds to her neighborhood coffee house to sit with pretentious people to discuss the progress of her one woman show and how the white male oppressors are keeping her down. Now it seems she is just like anyone else, groggily hitting the alarm clock before sunrise. Stumbling out of bed and kicking the leg of that stupid chair that has been in the same corner for over five years. Then she has to go to work with humorless dolts, stooges and goobers just like the rest of us common folk. Sigh…I do not know what to believe anymore. Fortunately I do not have to deal with too many humorless people. They are generally the way higher ups who I avoid anyway. I’ve done so well a few of them still do not know my name after six years, so when I bring up a tough question at one of the “reorganization” meetings we occasionally have, they think it is that “other guy”. [Monty Burns] excellent [/monty burns] ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/67 "2003-04-18T16:01:54Z")
Oh, I do all that stuff, _too_, **Zap** —except my one-woman show is an autobiographical monologue about Tallulah Bankhead. It’s called _Daaahhhling._ ---
**Author:** ![morningcoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@morningcoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/morningcoffee)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/68 "2003-04-18T16:03:23Z")
you know, just after hearing the phrase “screamy chilled corn soup” repeated so many times, I must say that it is becoming a classic. LOL. Resubmit it to the stiff editor and see if he’s dislodged the stick yet. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/69 "2003-04-18T16:12:11Z")
Funny, **Zap\_Rowsdower** - my image of **Eve** has always been the same as yours: elegant, timeless, classy. Except that I have always suspected that when she laughs, she snorts. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/70 "2003-04-18T16:25:30Z")
I don’t understand, what’s so hard about taking the s out? 🙂 ---
**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 18, 2003, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/71 "2003-04-18T16:59:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Payne N. Diaz \* > \*\*What was his name? \*\* Harry, I think. Yes, Harry Dick. ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/72 "2003-04-18T20:54:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rockle \* > \*\* > Here is a good test to see if you are wasting your time on anyone (inspired by Mr. Barry, who in my opinion should get at least several Nobel prizes or something): say the word “weasel” and see if they laugh. Just say, completely at randon, “weasel.” If their facial expression changes at all, there might be hope. If they look at you like you said “Excel spreadsheet” or “overlimit fee,” don’t even bother. Just run away quickly, even if you are forced to leave your own home or office. > \*\* I’m so glad you posted this. The word “weasel” always gets me _rolling_, no matter how many times I hear it. I can barely type this without cracking up. People think i’m crazy, I was beginning to think so too! :eek: My thing is, I have a really hard time containing my laughter. And when I start, it’s hard for me to stop. Whenever my b/f and I are watching t.v., he gets so irritated because i’ll start cracking up at something (loudly) and won’t be able to stop for a good 10 minutes. But I’ve been able to get him going a few times…😉 “weasel” HA! ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/73 "2003-04-18T20:57:43Z")
dammit! sent it too soon… I was almost hospitalized once after I heard this line from the _Simpsons_ “Being able to weasel your way out of things is what seperates men from animals. Except for the weasel” ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/74 "2003-04-21T12:37:00Z")
**lezlers,** we may have been separated at birth or something. I almost went into a laughter-induced seizure from that episode of _The Simpsons._ Loved it!! And for at least two days afterwards I would just randomly crack up at my desk, in my car, etc., whenever I would think if it. People kept looking at me like I had an extra head, instead of just the usual two. I was actually in a meeting with our C.O.O. the day after that episode first aired, and I had to leave the room because I started to bust out into an uncontrollable fit of laughter. ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359/75 "2003-04-21T22:11:20Z")
**rockle** weasel! hee hee hee… 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coping-with-the-humor-impaired/169359.md?page=3)