Are you not entertained?
Joke shamelessly stolen from here
How’s this for an example of ancient pop culture?
Mick Jagger was staying at the Playboy Mansion one time, and walked into a room to find Hef beating the absolute snot out of Dennis Weaver.
Shocked at what he saw, Mick shouted, "Hey, Hugh, off of McCloud!
switches to the third earwig launched by this thread
In all seriousness, I didn’t know I could have the Rolling Stones and Bippy the clown playing earwigs in my head both at once. this is the inaugural (heh!) run of my dual earwig playback circuits.
Unexpectedly, the competing tempos are far more distracting than the disharmony.
Isn’t it bliss?
I found it funny but maybe it is because according to my son, who just moved out, I am old.
My buddy from Albuquerque called me the other day upset because of the exact same thing as the OP.
Are you a pair. :rolleyes:
What’s the difference between Mick Jagger and a Scotsman?
Mick says, “Hey, you, get offa my cloud.” The Scotsman says “Hey, McCloud, get offa my ewe”
Although I despise both terms (gross!), it’s usually called an earWORM.
Wait!
You didn’t really just say that… did you?
What, don’t you approve?
“Send in the clowns” is a stock phrase that predates the Stephen Sondheim song. It’s from circus lingo, and was used when a disaster or problem occurred – the clowns would be sent in to distract the audience. Here is the definition from Urban Dictionary. Sondheim himself apparently explained that he wrote the song to reference the existing phrase in a theatre sense, meaning “if the show isn’t going well, let’s send in the clowns”.
That said, I immediately got the joke and thought it was funny, but then whenever I see or hear about a clown, either “Send in the Clowns” or “Be a Clown” (“Make 'Em Laugh”) starts running through my head.
What the heck? I started a thread asking exactly what that tune is that I thought might be “Send in the Clowns”? I don’t remember that! :smack:
So 'tis.
Oh well.
Hey – you – get offa my cloud!
nm. Ninja’d by Scarlett67.
Ancient pop-culture?
YOU!
LAWN
OFF!
Oh, yes, this. The Beatles one is hilarious. Congrats to your dad.
I’d have got the joke in the OP (and I agree, I don’t think it’s generational - I’m 22), but I don’t think I’d have laughed out loud unless the person in question had only hummed it (extremely deadpan), as panache45 would have done. Just a quirk in my sense of humour, I guess.
Or, reading the Mick jokes further on, I suspect it might just be that I’m a huge Beatles and Stones fan, whereas Sinatra - he’s great, yeah, but I’m just not as into him.
Beatles one is still the best (and I do like the Stones better, as a rule).
Leaving church one Sunday, I told the priest that every sermon he preaches is better than the next. He smiled and thank me; I don’t think he got it.
True confession time: I had to look that one up. Popular culture (even 30 years ago) is pretty much a closed book to me.
Exactly. Just saying “Send them in” is too generic and common a phrase to suggest you’re making a reference. Any well-placed pop culture joke has to have something just slightly off-kilter and distinctive enough that even if they don’t get it, it will make people do a minor double take–“Why’d he put it that way?”