Poker night with my wife and her parents. We just had this exchange (keep in mind here, my real name is Paul):
My Wife: “Pablo, honey, can you get me a drink?”
Me: “Ok Computer.”
No one got it.
Is it possible your wife is an Amnesiac and just didn’t get the joke?
Do your in-laws talk in maths?
What are you, some sort of creep?
I had to Google it before I got it.
I’m still not getting it.
pssst the password is ‘Radiohead’
Maybe they thought you were Kid A’ing.
I didn’t get it, but I’m tragically unhip. Until I googled, I didn’t know Radiohead was a band…
Now get off my lawn!
So, you’d like them to notice when you’re not around?
Don’t get all The Bends out of shape about it.
FCM, in a show of support, I too didn’t get the original joke nor knew what a Radiohead was. I refuse to be old so I’m thinking Hal was being obscure on purpose. Yeah, that’s it.
Settle down, all of you, or I’ll call the Karma Police.
I’m hipper than FCM! At least I’ve heard of Radiohead. But I didn’t get the joke at all.
Ah, okay, that’s why I didn’t get it. See, I only listen to good music.
-D&R-
Yeah, it’s moments like that were you want to disappear completely.
You don’t have to prove yourself to us. Too bad you were left high and dry, but don’t sulk; it could’ve been worse… your in-laws could’ve been excessively amused by your pun, thus leading you to write off their sense of humor as derivative and unoriginal*.
- Just for the record, that would’ve been most unfair to them.
I was at the dentist years ago, getting drilled for a filling at a super-early appointment - 7:30am, I think. As always, the drill was whiny and shrill and the smell of burnt tooth stuff wafted up into the air…
…there was a break in the action, so I paused and with my novocaine-dulled mouth, I will still able to clearly articulate the following:
The guy just looked at me and said “open”
:smack:
…please tell me you recognize this as awful punning off Robert Duvall’s line in Apocalypse Now…
Hell, I thought it was a ST:TOS reference.
So… what is the joke, exactly?