# Life is just a damned joke **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 5, 2000, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-just-a-damned-joke/35850 "2000-10-05T21:31:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-just-a-damned-joke/35850/1 "2000-10-05T21:31:48Z")
No really, it is. I’ve been living on nothing but chicken soup for two days now (I’m sick), and yesterday I heated some up and left the remainder in the pot on the stove. Later I returned to it, reheated it and ladled it into my bowl. Just then I looked down and actually said OUT LOUD: “Oh My God- there’s a fly in my soup!” ten seconds later my sense of humor caught up and I nearly died from the ensuing coughing/laughing fit. Just thought I’d share. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-just-a-damned-joke/35850/2 "2000-10-05T21:35:58Z")
“Life’s a joke. Take it seriously and the joke’s on you!” ---
**Author:** ![tradesilicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tradesilicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tradesilicon)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-just-a-damned-joke/35850/3 "2000-10-05T22:01:31Z")
> [@](#): > > “Oh My God- there’s a fly in my soup!” So, feeling better, are we? Plain old ‘Chicken’ just wasn’t good enough, you were going for a more interesting flavor? ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-just-a-damned-joke/35850/4 "2000-10-05T22:19:42Z")
What was a fly doing in your soup? ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-just-a-damned-joke/35850/5 "2000-10-05T22:21:34Z")
The back stroke. _Please remember to tip your waitresses… And then help them up again!_ * * * Yer pal, Satan - Commissioner, [The Teeming Minions](http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/full/show?lid=39428&page=leaguehome) _I HAVE BEEN SMOKE-FREE FOR: Five months, three weeks, five days, 20 hours, 25 minutes and 37 seconds. 7194 cigarettes not smoked, saving $899.25. Extra life with Drain Bead: 3 weeks, 3 days, 23 hours, 30 minutes._ ---
**Author:** ![Zilch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Zilch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zilch)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-just-a-damned-joke/35850/6 "2000-10-05T22:32:00Z")
All right, Satan . . . You two planned that, didn’t you? – Zilch ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-just-a-damned-joke/35850/7 "2000-10-05T22:33:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zette \* > “Oh My God- there’s a fly in my soup!” Shhh! Everybody will want one! ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-just-a-damned-joke/35850/8 "2000-10-05T23:55:26Z")
DB and Satan, That was just SAD. I had to tell you that. I went ahead and ate the soup anyway- I figured he probobly didn’t each much. 😉 Zette ---
**Author:** ![Ankh\_Too](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Ankh\_Too](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ankh_Too)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-just-a-damned-joke/35850/9 "2000-10-06T00:07:07Z")
I really don’t mind that life is a joke. It’s that damned laugh track that throws me off stride. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-just-a-damned-joke/35850/10 "2000-10-06T00:34:04Z")
That’s such a coincidence, Zette! Today I met a man with a wooden leg named Smith. ---
**Author:** ![ShamaFrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@ShamaFrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShamaFrog)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-just-a-damned-joke/35850/11 "2000-10-06T01:37:46Z")
What was the other leg named?? ---
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-just-a-damned-joke/35850/12 "2000-10-06T10:40:17Z")
Flies are good protein. ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-just-a-damned-joke/35850/13 "2000-10-06T13:19:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kellibelli \* > Flies are good protein. I certainly don’t want to know what you’d consider a BAD protein, kelli. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-just-a-damned-joke/35850/14 "2000-10-06T15:20:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Catrandom \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Zette \* > > “Oh My God- there’s a fly in my soup!” > > Shhh! Everybody will want one! \*\* I actually used that line on a customer I was waiting on. Of course, it wasn’t in her soup, it was in her shrimp. There was a pause of about three seconds, then her (very large) boyfriend started laughing. Needless to say, I was quite relieved. ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-just-a-damned-joke/35850/15 "2000-10-06T15:34:34Z")
You probably wouldn’t have been nearly so worried if the boyfriend had been a shrimp. ---
**Author:** ![tradesilicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tradesilicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tradesilicon)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-just-a-damned-joke/35850/16 "2000-10-06T15:40:47Z")
> [@](#): > > You probably wouldn’t have been nearly so worried if the boyfriend had been a shrimp. Then the fly would have been on the boyfriend. ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-just-a-damned-joke/35850/17 "2000-10-06T15:51:00Z")
He probably has a fly on his pants. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-just-a-damned-joke/35850/18 "2000-10-06T18:31:14Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by tradesilicon \* \*\* > [@](#): > > You probably wouldn’t have been nearly so worried if the boyfriend had been a shrimp. Damn skippy! > [@](#): > > Then the fly would have been on the boyfriend. \*\* I’m going to pretend I didn’t read that. ---
**Author:** ![ReservoirDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@ReservoirDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReservoirDog)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-just-a-damned-joke/35850/19 "2000-10-06T19:02:15Z")
I don’t know if it’s as much a joke as it is an anecdote. A really long one. The kind where the dumbass just keeps going on and on and you just want to smack him in the head but instead you politely interrupt and ask, “Is there a point to all this?” and he stops for a second with a really blank look on his face and you stand there expectantly, but then he just starts up again in that really annoying nasally monotone of his and you look at your watch and wonder why you bothered to come to this lame party in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-just-a-damned-joke/35850/20 "2000-10-06T19:08:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ReservoirDog \* > \*\*I don’t know if it’s as much a joke as it is an anecdote. > > A really long one. > > \*\* Oh, no…it’s definitely a joke. Wait’ll you hear the punchline! (no spoilers here!) 😛