The government of Kiribati went into panic a few years back after the NZ satirical website www.spinner.co.nz ran a story about the US planning to invade the islands.
Jackalope, you know the 2 basic building blocks of humor don’t you?
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Repetition
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Repetition
What’s number three??
I know this one! Number 3 is profit!
Number 3 is “Hi Opal!”… or am I repeating that…?
Onion Believers get all the news, but BBSpot has gotta be the winner on this. His article on a Nigerian Millionaire who can’t understand why people won’t accept his gifts of money has been getting believers by the dozen since it first appeared in 2003. The Sitemaster, Brian Briggs, posts weekly round-ups of them in his mailbag column.
The same site has gotten believers in a computer video card that can let you see through clothes, a Metallica album specifically recorded to be not worth pirating, and most recently about World Of Warcraft mail being readable by GMail.
Some folks’ll believe anything.
thwartme
Which one?, there were many.
Here’s her last quote:
You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
And just to reiterate for the thousandth time, women are not joyfully skipping down the street to have an abortion. Even if it’s the best decision and a relatively easy decision - as it is for some women - it still isn’t the joy of our lives and women shouldn’t be made to feel guilty when they do not.
OK, I’ll play the wet blanket:
No, the basic building blocks of humor are surprise, timing, and changes in the audience’s level of emotional involvement. Repetition is the basic building block of irony, which, while it does have its uses, is woefully inferior to actual humor.
Sorry for the hijack, and sorry to be That Guy. I’ll shut up now.
No, no. I’m pretty sure the basic building blocks of humor are surprise, timing, and changes in the audience’s level of emotional involvement. Repetition is the basic building block of irony, which, while it does have it’s uses, is woefully inferior to actual humor.
Actually, the four basic building blocks of humor are surprise, timing, changes in the audience’s level of emotional involvement, AND repetition. And a fanatical dedication to the pope.
Aaaaaand a well-timed Python reference.
<small applause>
Anybody rememberwhen a Chinese newspaper reported that Harry Potter was threatening to move the Capitol using a 1920’s-style death ray unless Duran Duran played “Rio” at the bottom of the Marianas Trench for 20 minutes?
(Have we had enough of a digression for this to meet at least the ‘surprise’ requirement?)
This post has been repeated by the repeatist!
When I was in the PTA we had that article forwarded to us to be read at a PTA meeting. I could tell it was BS as it was being read, but the good news is that I discovered the Onion that day!
:smack: I should have read through the thread and realized that the topic was no longer about the Onion.
I also liked the Monty Python reference, nice work!
BWA-HA-HA-HA!
Just went to the Blog in the OP.
The person discussed in the OP is now pretending he knew it was a joke all along, but he has removed the ability to leave remarks, thus proving that he is hypersensitive to those remarks.
And that he never had the sense of humor to try such a stunt in the first place.
And now, he has redoubled the number & vitriol of his blog postings.
:rolleyes:
No one expects the Spainish repetition!!
So this joke is “not dead yet”?
I was a Congressman who wanted an upgraded, ultra-comfy Capitol once.
But I got better.
For this, I must go old school. ROTFLMAO!