# I Pit HOBBY LOBBY **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 28, 2012, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hobby-lobby/642335 "2012-11-28T02:45:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 81
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hobby-lobby/642335/1601 "2014-07-23T21:22:28Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Correct. It’s not absurd. > > I don’t quite get the mouth joke – why is it funny? > > The sig line is funny because it combines the movie line from Fight Club – the first rule of Fight Club is that you don’t talk about Fight Club – with the concept of a thesaurus, so that the rule spins out a half-dozen synonyms of “talk about.” That subverts the expectation created by the movie line in a comical way, directly tied to the somewhat silly concept of a Thesaurus Club. The Fight Club sig is moderately amusing. But it falls flat because we get it with the first example. It continues and there is no payoff at the end. Jesus teleporting into your mouth is funny, because it’s _a guy’s meat in your mouth_. Saying, “Says the guy who thinks a cracker turns into a long dead carpenter… in a chalice.” It just doesn’t have the punch. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hobby-lobby/642335/1602 "2014-07-23T21:25:58Z")
Oh. Homophobic funny. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hobby-lobby/642335/1603 "2014-07-23T21:29:09Z")
The chalice from the palace holds thine which is divine? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hobby-lobby/642335/1604 "2014-07-23T21:30:03Z")
If it tastes like bread, the guy is dead. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hobby-lobby/642335/1605 "2014-07-23T21:31:15Z")
There are a host of other puns to come… ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hobby-lobby/642335/1606 "2014-07-23T21:41:57Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Oh. Homophobic funny. On a meta level it works because Catholics are horrifyingly anti gay. So I’d say it wouldn’t be homophobic. It makes fun of homophobes. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hobby-lobby/642335/1607 "2014-07-23T21:43:22Z")
Everyone tells me Jesus was of Mediterranean decent, and was a brown person. But then they tell me He was a cracker. I just don’t know what to think! ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hobby-lobby/642335/1608 "2014-07-23T21:43:36Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > On a meta level it works because Catholics are horrifyingly anti gay. So I’d say it wouldn’t be homophobic. It makes fun of homophobes. Ugh. No. I hate that excuse. You don’t get a freebie by pushing the opinion onto someone else. You’re the one making the joke. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hobby-lobby/642335/1609 "2014-07-23T21:44:25Z")
Some of my best friends are meta. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hobby-lobby/642335/1610 "2014-07-23T21:46:42Z")
> [@Revenant\_Threshold](#): > > Ugh. No. I hate that excuse. You don’t get a freebie by pushing the opinion onto someone else. You’re the one making the joke. So, you’re of the opinion that I’m homophobic because I said, “in your mouth”? Whichevers. I can’t make you accept that, but check my posting history, if there is a stronger advocate for SSM on this site, I’m not sure who he or she would be. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hobby-lobby/642335/1611 "2014-07-23T21:47:53Z")
I’m of the opinion that’s a terrible excuse. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hobby-lobby/642335/1612 "2014-07-23T21:48:33Z")
Also, **Bricker** is not “anti-gay”. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hobby-lobby/642335/1613 "2014-07-23T21:50:10Z")
> [@Revenant\_Threshold](#): > > I’m of the opinion that’s a terrible excuse. It’s not an excuse, because I didn’t do anything wrong. \<3 ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hobby-lobby/642335/1614 "2014-07-23T21:51:21Z")
So’s that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hobby-lobby/642335/1615 "2014-07-23T22:45:16Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Nerd funny. My prior sig was that Schrodinger’s Pizza was both delivery and DiGorno until the waveform collapses – a play on the commercial for Digorno Pizza claiming the product is indistinguishable from delivery, and the quantum wavestate thought experiment proposed by Schrodinger involving a cat. So, yes. “Nerd funny.” ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hobby-lobby/642335/1616 "2014-07-23T22:46:41Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > My prior sig was that Schrodinger’s Pizza was both delivery and DiGorno until the waveform collapses – a play on the commercial for Digorno Pizza claiming the product is indistinguishable from delivery, and the quantum wavestate thought experiment proposed by Schrodinger involving a cat. > > So, yes. “Nerd funny.” More _socially awkward_ than nerd, though I will grant you, there is overlap. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hobby-lobby/642335/1617 "2014-07-23T22:55:09Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > Jesus teleporting into your mouth is funny, because it’s _a guy’s meat in your mouth_. Why is that funny? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hobby-lobby/642335/1618 "2014-07-23T22:58:35Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Why is that funny? Heh heh… heh heh… he said meat in mouth… heh heh… ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hobby-lobby/642335/1619 "2014-07-23T23:00:17Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Heh heh… heh heh… he said meat in mouth… heh heh… Ah, a Beavis & Butthead level of humor. Got it. Very … appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hobby-lobby/642335/1620 "2014-07-23T23:29:51Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Why is that funny? Because cannibalism taboo? Because of the ingrained homophobia of many Catholics? Because of the absurdity of having a succulent medallion of your savior in your lickin’ hole? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hobby-lobby/642335.md?page=80) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hobby-lobby/642335.md?page=82)