# Opinions wanted, which is funnier? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 19, 2006, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-which-is-funnier/349007 "2006-03-19T16:37:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-which-is-funnier/349007/41 "2006-03-20T02:55:36Z")
[Cheese](http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/cheese.htm)! ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-which-is-funnier/349007/42 "2006-03-20T03:29:03Z")
What a ridiculous question. The answer is clearly cheese. But here’s a pencil joke for you: What’s the biggest pencil in America? Pennsylvania! [QUOTE=Cervaise] I’m tempted to say cheese also, but I am amused by the thought of a young adult reading a coming-of-age novel called _I Am The Pencil_, so I call it a draw. [/QUOTE] Please tell me that pun was intended. Please? ---
**Author:** ![Jessica\_Rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bcef8e/32.png) [@Jessica\_Rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jessica_Rabbit)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-which-is-funnier/349007/43 "2006-03-20T06:17:43Z")
[QUOTE=Cajun Man] Since this is essentially _cough_ a poll, I’ll move it to [**In My Humble Opinion**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=12) for you. **Cajun Man** for the SDMB [/QUOTE] Yep, sure, cool, fine ::new here, doesn’t know deal:: Having said that, I thought “which is funnier, pencils or cheese?” was the epitome of the pointless and mundane… My bad. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jessica\_Rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bcef8e/32.png) [@Jessica\_Rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jessica_Rabbit)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-which-is-funnier/349007/44 "2006-03-20T06:27:22Z")
How is it that I could still be bothered asking this question, to the point that I’ve asked just about everyone I know? I’ve been asking this question for five years and I’m still asking… There really is a good reason. ---
**Author:** ![Jessica\_Rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bcef8e/32.png) [@Jessica\_Rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jessica_Rabbit)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-which-is-funnier/349007/45 "2006-03-20T06:31:08Z")
Until I put up this thread, out of hundreds of people, in five years of asking, no one had ever said that pencils were funnier than cheese. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-which-is-funnier/349007/46 "2006-03-20T07:25:41Z")
Until the day someone says “Whew! Smells like pencils,” cheese will always reign supreme in this battle. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-which-is-funnier/349007/47 "2006-03-20T15:21:52Z")
It’s got to be the cheese, because by any standard, pencils are number 2. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-which-is-funnier/349007/48 "2006-03-20T15:40:52Z")
There are many things that are funnier than cheese. However, if my only two choices are cheese and pencils, I’m gonna have to go with the cheese. It’s just funnier. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-which-is-funnier/349007/49 "2006-03-20T16:09:16Z")
[QUOTE=Green Bean] Please tell me that pun was intended. [/QUOTE] Me? Pun? Never. ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-which-is-funnier/349007/50 "2006-03-20T16:42:36Z")
[QUOTE=cmkeller] It’s got to be the cheese, because by any standard, pencils are number 2. [/QUOTE] HA! I could not let that go by without _some_ recognition… ---
**Author:** ![meek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce73a5/32.png) [@meek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meek)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-which-is-funnier/349007/51 "2006-03-20T19:43:51Z")
Did ya hear about the constipated mathematician? He worked it out with a **pencil**! BWAhahhahahahahahaha. [sub] I am sooooo sorry. I’ll go now.[/sub] . ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-which-is-funnier/349007/52 "2006-03-20T21:30:54Z")
[QUOTE=Dervorin] Didn’t Zaphod have a second-hand Biro business? Or was it pencils? [/QUOTE] It was Biros. IIRC, he used pencils for changing the radio station on the starship _Heart of Gold_, and failing to work out complicated improbability equations, among other things. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-which-is-funnier/349007/53 "2006-03-21T00:19:38Z")
[QUOTE=Dead Cat] It was Biros. IIRC, he used pencils for changing the radio station on the starship _Heart of Gold_, and failing to work out complicated improbability equations, among other things. [/QUOTE] Hm. I’m trying to think if I can remember that from the book - or was it just in the movie? Not that it matters terribly, of course. Incidentally, Hamlet was once doing a portrait of Ophelia in pencil; and he stood in front of his pencil case, pondering: “2B or not 2B?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-which-is-funnier/349007.md?page=2)