# I made up a joke... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 16, 2009, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-up-a-joke/506594 "2009-08-16T02:10:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-up-a-joke/506594/41 "2009-08-25T04:08:32Z")
I think your joke is different enough to stand on its own…and it’s funnier. I remember even as a kid and a connoisseur of gross jokes thinking the other was crude. And that’s saying a lot, lol. I agree your punchline needs to be a bit snappier. But your original was still really good. BTW, the other unusual thing…I was thinking this weekend of posting a survey about socks and masturbation. It’s a stock joke that boys and men jack off with socks and then wad them up after. This was a long joke on \*Weeds \*a few seasons ago. What I never understood about it was what was done with the sock. Is it traditionally used over someone’s dink during masturbation, or just for cleanup? Socks never were part of my repertoire, although growing up I heard about the sock meme a lot. Ah…gotta love the 'Dope as the forum where one can ask anything 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-up-a-joke/506594/42 "2009-08-25T18:10:28Z")
Pretty sure socks have been referenced on Family Guy and Arrested Development. A Zebrahead song about Playboys arriving in the mail has the line “Let’s grab a sock, it’s time to rock.” Talking about joke structure: Humor has a rule of three. The first instance sets the stage, the second establishes a pattern, and the third breaks the pattern for the punchline. Less than that doesn’t provide the same punch, more than that is boring. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-up-a-joke/506594/43 "2009-08-25T18:11:17Z")
> [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](#): > > I think your joke is different enough to stand on its own…and it’s funnier. I remember even as a kid and a connoisseur of gross jokes thinking the other was crude. And that’s saying a lot, lol. Yeah, the body part one seems too easily guessable. I liked the one with the clothing better. ---
**Author:** ![Clivas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@Clivas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clivas)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-up-a-joke/506594/44 "2009-08-26T01:50:36Z")
> [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](#): > > Thanks Runs With Scissors, and everyone else. > > The structure of the body part joke is identical to the one I made up, and I am amazed as I can now recall hearing it in the early eighties, but had completely forgotten about it until RWS pointed out the joke he had heard. > > I honestly thought I had made that up. > > awkward pause > > So… > > Has anyone else made up any “new” jokes? > > regards Not so much a “joke” but I made up a cartoon a while ago. It’s a picture of a guy sitting at a table in a restaurant and his waiter is serving him a whole roasted chicken. The chicken is wearing a little sailor suit with a pipe sticking out of his beak and one eye closed with the other eye wide open. The guy is looking horrified and screaming “Wait a minute!!! I ordered a chicken POT pie!!” ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-up-a-joke/506594/45 "2009-08-26T16:28:23Z")
You don’t think I wished for a twelve-inch pianist, do you? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-up-a-joke/506594/46 "2009-08-26T16:38:28Z")
> [@Clivas](#): > > Not so much a “joke” but I made up a cartoon a while ago. > > It’s a picture of a guy sitting at a table in a restaurant and his waiter is serving him a whole roasted chicken. The chicken is wearing a little sailor suit with a pipe sticking out of his beak and one eye closed with the other eye wide open. The guy is looking horrified and screaming “Wait a minute!!! I ordered a chicken POT pie!!” I don’t get it…explain? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4bbf92/32.png) [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-up-a-joke/506594/47 "2009-08-26T16:42:15Z")
The horrible joke I came up with: Did you hear about the two SQL developers who only hooked up when they were drunk? They had a one-too-many relationship. I’m so sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-up-a-joke/506594/48 "2009-08-26T16:58:04Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > I don’t get it…explain? 🙂 I’m guessing the waiter brought him a chicken Popeye. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-up-a-joke/506594/49 "2009-08-26T17:01:43Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > I’m guessing the waiter brought him a chicken Popeye. Ah, duh. :smack: Little slow on the up take today, thank you! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-up-a-joke/506594.md?page=2)