# \[Jokes in\] GQ **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 21, 2014, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-in-gq/702064 "2014-10-21T19:27:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-in-gq/702064/61 "2014-10-23T19:26:30Z")
Why, certainly. Hence, my “at some point”. ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-in-gq/702064/62 "2014-10-23T19:56:32Z")
Darnit, I glossed over that “and discussed” phrase in your answer. From the FAQ : > [@](#): > > 1. Political, religious, or professional jabs, hijacks, and trolling prohibited. The purpose of General Questions is to get factual questions answered. In order to accomplish this we need the threads to stay on topic. **We tolerate some joking, but that is generally acceptable only after the question has been answered.** Please do not race to a thread to post that hilarious one-liner in response to the thread title, and don’t drive by just to drop in an anecdote that doesn’t answer the question. If you want to be funny while contributing to the thread, go for it. We tolerate some discussion of tangentially related factual information. We don’t tolerate political, religious, professional or personal jabs or insults. In case it’s somehow not clear: Trolling isn’t permitted at all. Bolding added. I don’t see the phrase “and discussed” there. Also, I’d like to add a clarification to my post. When I said “nothing close to resembling a ‘solid’ answer”, I was being facetious to point out that “solid” answer is a nebulous, undefined term you … introduced. I strive to make any post of mine in GQ be at least tangentially related to the issue at hand. I regard this as a personal challenge. If I fall short, I pick myself up, dust myself off and climb back on that, back on that … damn, I lost the metaphor. Anyway, my question regarding your slight addendum to the FAQ is : “Who are you, again?” ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-in-gq/702064/63 "2014-10-23T20:03:46Z")
> [@jimbuff314](#): > > “Who are you, again?” \*I yam who I yam. \*😛 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-in-gq/702064/64 "2014-10-23T20:45:46Z")
I wouldn’t mind seeing less zombie jokes – in every forum. If only because they’re really overdone and played out. I’m not asking for a rule against it, just saying they’re stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-in-gq/702064/65 "2014-10-23T21:42:13Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > I’m not asking for a rule against it, just saying they’re stupid. I’d call them brain-dead. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-in-gq/702064/66 "2014-10-23T21:44:27Z")
For those linking back to my request from 2000freaken7, my point was not to ban “joke” but to ban “No more “whooshes” or deliberately wrong answers in GQ.” To illustrate: Q posed in OP.1._What are safe chicken handling procedures for my kitchen?_ replies: 2. Why do you want your kitchen to handle a chicken?😛 1. Why did the chicken cross the kitchen?😃 2. Chicken is safe when cooked rare. For best safety, leave it out, overnight in a warm place. 3. Here’s a great link, note that they recommend _Clean: Wash hands and surfaces often. Separate: Separate raw meats and poultry from other foods. Cook: Cook all poultry to an internal temperature of 165 °F (73.9 °C). Chill: Refrigerate promptly_ [http://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/ad74bb8d-1dab-49c1-b05e-390a74ba7471/Chicken\_from\_Farm\_to\_Table.pdf?MOD=AJPERES](http://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/ad74bb8d-1dab-49c1-b05e-390a74ba7471/Chicken_from_Farm_to_Table.pdf?MOD=AJPERES) Hi Opal! 4. Umm, poster 4, I am pretty sure your answer is wrong and unsafe. 5. Ha! Whoosh! Now, I dont care for posts 2&3 they add nothing and the humor is poor. But I never suggested those get banned. Post #4 with d_eliberately wrong and even dangerous information, especially presented in a non-joking manner_ is what I wanted to ban. I still do. Post #5 is great, even with the bad joke and incorrect meme at the end. Can anyone defend post 4? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-in-gq/702064/67 "2014-10-23T22:04:31Z")
Yeah, there’s no real difference between 4 and the other jokes. A whoosh is just a joke that someone has told, not expecting it to be taken seriously. It’s only aq whoosh if someone fails to get it. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-in-gq/702064/68 "2014-10-23T23:39:58Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Yeah, there’s no real difference between 4 and the other jokes. > > A whoosh is just a joke that someone has told, not expecting it to be taken seriously. It’s only aq whoosh if someone fails to get it. Yeah, **DrDeth** seems to have this idea that whooshs are somehow intentional – they’re not. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-in-gq/702064/69 "2014-10-24T02:20:02Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I’d call them brain-dead. I’d say I saw what you did there except that something ate my eyeballs. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-in-gq/702064/70 "2014-10-24T06:23:00Z")
Personally I like jokes, provided they are funny. Perhaps somebody (not DrDeth) should launch a “GQ Humor Feedback” thread in the pit. Assemble the last 10 jokes in GQ made by **silenus** , **Vinyl Turnip** and **jimbuff314** and see how they match up. One point if funny, negative one if bad. Two points if funny within the first 5 posts, -10 otherwise in the first 5 posts. (Yes, the poster is probably breaking the rules regardless- that’s what makes it edgy.) Also, -10 for brain-melts. I’d mention **elucidator** , but I see fewer of his wisecracks in GQ. Also, you are forgiven for exactly one bad joke or one brain-melt _provided you do not defend it._ But, hey, you might change people’s minds. (Snort). ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-in-gq/702064/71 "2014-10-24T14:56:28Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Post #4 with d_eliberately wrong and even dangerous information, especially presented in a non-joking manner_ is what I wanted to ban. I still do. … > > Can anyone defend post 4? In principle, I think we all agree that we’d prefer NOT to have false information (especially info that’s potentially hazardous) in GQ (well, OK, anywhere, for that matter.) However, in practice, I don’t see how we can disallow it or monitor it. People often give wrong information, “my father told me” or “I read somewhere” kind of stuff, people who honestly have wrong information in their heads and pass it on; typically, such errors are corrected by someone else later in the thread. I don’t see how we can police that, I think that’s the sort of thing that we rely on posters to correct. This means that people need to read a whole thread, not just read until they find the first answer. But that’s always been the case. It’s less annoying if the deliberately false answer is clearly a joke, or done with a winky-smiley or something. On t’other hand, it’s kinda crude to have to say: “This is a joke.” In the present situation and in most such “whoosh” situations, I suspect that the poster thought it was Obviously (capital O) a joke. The “whoosh” comes into play because someone else didn’t catch the Obvious. Again, I don’t see how we can monitor that sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-in-gq/702064/72 "2014-10-24T15:56:37Z")
> [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#): > > In principle, I think we all agree that we’d prefer NOT to have false information (especially info that’s potentially hazardous) in GQ (well, OK, anywhere, for that matter.) However, in practice, I don’t see how we can disallow it or monitor it. People often give wrong information, “my father told me” or “I read somewhere” kind of stuff, people who honestly have wrong information in their heads and pass it on; typically, such errors are corrected by someone else later in the thread. > > I don’t see how we can police that, I think that’s the sort of thing that we rely on posters to correct. This means that people need to read a whole thread, not just read until they find the first answer. But that’s always been the case. > > It’s less annoying if the deliberately false answer is clearly a joke, or done with a winky-smiley or something. On t’other hand, it’s kinda crude to have to say: “This is a joke.” In the present situation and in most such “whoosh” situations, I suspect that the poster thought it was Obviously (capital O) a joke. The “whoosh” comes into play because someone else didn’t catch the Obvious. Again, I don’t see how we can monitor that sort of thing. Yes, I agree, it would be difficult. The only way, as you said would be for “that’s the sort of thing that we rely on posters to correct”. So, it would be fine for a poster to say: “6. _Umm, poster 4, I am pretty sure your answer is wrong and unsafe. (see Post 5)_” ? And if poster 4 came back with: 7. _Ha!Ha! Whoosh!_ That should be reported, yes? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-in-gq/702064/73 "2014-10-24T16:02:11Z")
No, what’s to report? There’s no jerkishness in play, just someone missing an Obvious joke. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-in-gq/702064/74 "2014-10-24T16:18:18Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > No, what’s to report? There’s no jerkishness in play, just someone missing an Obvious joke. If the OP actually asked about safe poultry handling techniques, it can be assumed they dont know. Thus giving them false, misleading and extremely dangerous info is indeed being a jerk as they wont know it’s supposed to be a joke. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-in-gq/702064/75 "2014-10-24T17:08:49Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > If the OP actually asked about safe poultry handling techniques, it can be assumed they dont know. Thus giving them false, misleading and extremely dangerous info is indeed being a jerk as they wont know it’s supposed to be a joke. Unless the poster who’d you be reporting simply made a poor joke. They didn’t do anything wrong, except make a joke that fell flat.You’d report them if they were making a deliberately misleading joke, because that’d be jerkish. If it accidentally mislead someone, there’s nothing to report. A “woosh” isn’t meant to imply that the joke was subtle _on purpose_. It means the person who was wooshed didn’t get the joke. You post “woosh” not to say “gotcha” but to let the reader know they missed something. They could have missed the joke because they read it wrong or because the joker made a dumb joke, but it wasn’t done _on purpose_ to mislead. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-in-gq/702064/76 "2014-10-24T18:15:09Z")
I made a joke in GQ just Once. Once, and its the only warning I have ever gotten. A Warning for the first time. ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-in-gq/702064/77 "2014-10-24T18:33:45Z")
I’ve heard of lousy jokes, but damn. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-in-gq/702064/78 "2014-10-24T18:40:37Z")
> [@Lanzy](#): > > I made a joke in GQ just Once. Once, and its the only warning I have ever gotten. A Warning for the first time. Sounds like a real arrow to the knee. Was the punchline as subtle as your GQ joke count? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-in-gq/702064/79 "2014-10-24T18:45:28Z")
> [@Lanzy](#): > > I made a joke in GQ just Once. Once, and its the only warning I have ever gotten. A Warning for the first time. > [@](#): > > Lanzy > Charter Member Join Date: Apr 2004 > Location: Orlando > Posts: 3,694 > > /\* Thread shit > > Probably like most republicans > > Thread Shit/\* And, the warning was for making a political jab in GQ, not for joking. ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-in-gq/702064/80 "2014-10-24T18:48:51Z")
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