# Jokes that just need to DIE ALREADY **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 26, 2015, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-just-need-to-die-already/713664 "2015-02-26T15:14:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-just-need-to-die-already/713664/161 "2015-02-27T18:36:38Z")
I like how a bunch of people are like “Duh, they eat cat meat in china sometimes, so you’re WRONG.” Nice job, Einstein. Yes, I know sometimes they eat cat meat in China and dog meat in Korea and it is literally only your cultural assumptions that make you think it’s wrong. Lambs are pretty goddamn cute and we eat them all the time here. My POINT was, that Chinese restaurants here in the West are not using cat food so cram your stupid racist juvenile jokes. “Is it rape month again?” Can definitely go away. Cause as long as men and women are getting raped every month, it can damn well be rape month. I am so fucking tired of Chuck Norris jokes. I am glad they are finally going away. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-just-need-to-die-already/713664/162 "2015-02-27T18:50:43Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Yep, Ole Tom is who I think of when I use the phrase. 😉 > > That, and “I’m so horny the crack o’ dawn better watch out”. I knew Dawn. I saw when she walked up to the guy in the bar wearing a shirt that said that and cussed him out good. I watched her leave the bar with him. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-just-need-to-die-already/713664/163 "2015-02-27T18:58:43Z")
Needs more cowbell ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-just-need-to-die-already/713664/164 "2015-02-27T19:07:18Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > That’s what SHE said, suggestively, making us think of sexual intercourse! Making depraved, drooling perv Dopers think about sex? Now _there’s_ a challenge! ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-just-need-to-die-already/713664/165 "2015-02-27T19:21:30Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Making **depraved, drooling perv Dopers** think about sex? Now _there’s_ a challenge! no need to be redundant ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-just-need-to-die-already/713664/166 "2015-02-27T19:22:45Z")
> [@phantom\_lamb](#): > > The punch lines of a lot of internet jokes that are by now done to DEATH. > > Leonardo DiCaprio not getting an Oscar. > > T Rex having small arms. > > Indestructible old Nokia phones. > etc. I’ve never heard of any of these. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-just-need-to-die-already/713664/167 "2015-02-27T19:36:14Z")
Add me to the “Enough with the @#$% Princess Bride lines, already!” camp. Hated the movie. Well, both times I tried to watch it, I fell asleep because it was so dull. So the fact that my nerd tribe has embraced it and won’t #$%^ shut up quoting the lines just makes it worse. 😛 I feel the same way about Monty Python lines, but at least they were funny the first time. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-just-need-to-die-already/713664/168 "2015-02-27T19:44:15Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > > [@phantom\_lamb](#): > > > > … > > > > Leonardo DiCaprio not getting an Oscar. > > > > … > > I’ve never heard of any of these. [like this](http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/918/962/272.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-just-need-to-die-already/713664/169 "2015-02-27T20:20:25Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > no need to be redundant Repeated! ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-just-need-to-die-already/713664/170 "2015-02-27T20:35:53Z")
[ul] [li]LOLcats - I spellz like I haz a head trauma[/li][li]Grumpy Cat - never even mildly amusing[/li][li]Jokes about how manly beards are[/li][li]Men are morons and need to be treated like babies and can’t fend for themselves[/li][li]Women are only here to take care of men (weird how the male and female versions of these jokes basically mesh together)[/li][li]My kid could do that! - whenever referencing any are item that doesn’t look exactly like what it is supposed to represent with photorealism[/li][li]Rap isn’t music it’s just noise! - Isn’t that what your parents said about your music?[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-just-need-to-die-already/713664/171 "2015-02-27T20:59:20Z")
> [@Mr\_Shine](#): > > The sequel that you hate to the film you love DOES exist. That oh so witty “Highlander…2?” see what I did there bullshit is not clever and just annoying. Yep. Especially as the Directors cut is not bad at all. Joke that most has to die? From a man “Oh, I like to sleep with women too, that means i must be a lesbian!”:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-just-need-to-die-already/713664/172 "2015-02-27T21:06:46Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > But . . . I like rape.☹ This also includes quotes from Blazing Saddles. 😛 Hold it! Next man makes a joke from that film, the nigger gets it! ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-just-need-to-die-already/713664/173 "2015-02-27T21:08:39Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > References to Monty Python, The Princess Bride, and Airplane. Yes, indeed. When it comes to annoying, repetitive, no-longer-funny, out-of-context, you-think-you’re-cute-but-you’re-not drivel, those movies are certainly the Unholy Trinity. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-just-need-to-die-already/713664/174 "2015-02-27T21:08:57Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Nah. He’s right and you are utterly, irretrievably wrong. The material was original and funny when Python performed it. Decades of repetition by dweebs has beaten every last trace of humor out of it. Yes. It has passed on! This joke is no more! The humor has ceased to be! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-just-need-to-die-already/713664/175 "2015-02-27T21:09:45Z")
And a couple of Crackers will also get it! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-just-need-to-die-already/713664/176 "2015-02-27T21:10:30Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > This also includes quotes from Blazing Saddles. 😛 > > Hold it! Next man makes a joke from that film, the nigger gets it! No quoting, men. He’s crazy enough he might just do it! ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-just-need-to-die-already/713664/177 "2015-02-27T21:10:56Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Most of the in-jokes here have been done to death, “once for 20 minutes”, “1920s death rays”, etc. And the whole “zombies” things. Dopers are pretty damned good at never letting a joke die off, long after its time. Sorta like Saturday Night Live? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-just-need-to-die-already/713664/178 "2015-02-27T21:18:15Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > And a couple of Crackers will also get it! Graham? Or saltine? ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-just-need-to-die-already/713664/179 "2015-02-27T21:35:16Z")
> [@BurnMeUp](#): > > [ul] > [li]My kid could do that! - whenever referencing any are item that doesn’t look exactly like what it is supposed to represent with photorealism[/li][/ul] “Yeah, and he could probably say something more original than that old cliché!” - MAD Magazine > [@DrDeth](#): > > Sorta like Saturday Night Live? 😛 More like Saturday Night DEAD, amirite? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-just-need-to-die-already/713664/180 "2015-02-27T21:45:29Z")
Complaining about how in-jokes are unfunny is pointless. People don’t tell them because they are _funny_ - almost by definition, they are not, as the ‘humour’ value derives from the fact that the audience has already heard them many times. People tell them in order to assert a sort of comradeship, to signal that they are part of the in-group, to pass the time, etc. Almost every human group does this, it seems to be a universal behaviour, and complaining about it is not unlike Canute compaining about the tides. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-just-need-to-die-already/713664.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-just-need-to-die-already/713664.md?page=10)