# Things that make you go lol **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 3, 2019, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-lol/842959 "2019-11-03T18:03:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-lol/842959/21 "2019-11-04T13:22:13Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Funeral Home Mishaps. Especially if the “customer” has an afro. 😉 That OP actually made me go LOL. Also WTF? ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-lol/842959/22 "2019-11-04T14:31:31Z")
The TV show Whose Line is it Anyway has a lot of ideas of things that can be funny. Two catagories in particular are “Scenes from a Hat” and “Worlds Worst”. They have things like: Things a Dentist says that you can’t say to your partner Worst pickup lines Elvis in other jobs (my favorite joke was someone being Elvis as a crossing guard - directing traffic with his dance moves) Strange names for a dog (my favoite joke was someone calling their dog… "help! help! help!) ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-lol/842959/23 "2019-11-04T14:48:08Z")
No subject is intrinsically funny nor any intrinsically not. My favorite humor mostly comes from an unexpected viewpoint about something; it should be partly legitimate and real, that viewpoint, but partly wrong (whether by being an exaggeration, an oversimplification, or an extrapolation to a ridiculous extreme, or whatever). The partly true aspect of it gives it teeth; the distorted/wrong part of it gets carried along and makes it funny. ---
**Author:** ![somepumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@somepumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/somepumpkin)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-lol/842959/24 "2019-11-04T14:51:14Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Funeral Home Mishaps. Funeral Home Mistresses ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-lol/842959/25 "2019-11-04T15:55:44Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > It really, really is. You are asked to do something as part of a learning experience. Instead of doing the work yourself as asked, you want others to do your assignment for you, thereby bypassing the whole point of the assignment. > > You are just trying to wiggle out of doing your own work. This is a workshop. It’s not a class for a grade or credit. There are no rules about where we get our material. If I were taking a painting workshop, there would be nothing wrong with my asking friends for ideas of subjects to paint. The work is in the treatment of the subject, not where you get your ideas. This week’s “homework,” a word always used with an ironic chuckle, is to come up with five one liners and one five-minute bit. I have already done both of those. Twice over. This is an exercise I came up with myself. An exercise in thinking outside my own box. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-lol/842959/26 "2019-11-04T20:10:53Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Funeral Home Mishaps. There have been one or two over the years we still laugh about; it happens sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-lol/842959/27 "2019-11-04T20:15:05Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > This is a workshop. It’s not a class for a grade or credit. There are no rules about where we get our material. If I were taking a painting workshop, there would be nothing wrong with my asking friends for ideas of subjects to paint. The work is in the treatment of the subject, not where you get your ideas. > > This week’s “homework,” a word always used with an ironic chuckle, is to come up with five one liners and one five-minute bit. I have already done both of those. Twice over. > > This is an exercise I came up with myself. An exercise in thinking outside my own box. Posters who insist you are asking for help with homework, when you aren’t. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-lol/842959/28 "2019-11-04T20:15:40Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Funeral Home Mishaps. Nursing Home Mistakes. (segue!) ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-lol/842959/29 "2019-11-04T20:26:28Z")
AirBnB. You’re in their _house_ ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-lol/842959/30 "2019-11-04T20:39:08Z")
> [@Enola\_Gay](#): > > Posters who insist you are asking for help with homework, when you aren’t. Winner! ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-lol/842959/31 "2019-11-04T20:54:14Z")
> [@Enola\_Gay](#): > > Posters who insist you are asking for help with homework, when you aren’t. Im trying to see it but man, that’s some esoteric humor! ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-lol/842959/32 "2019-11-04T23:23:53Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Nursing Home Mistakes. (segue!) Involuntary transfers. What the one my FIL was in call deaths. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2019, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-lol/842959/33 "2019-11-06T16:45:26Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Things with ironic names. The oldest bridge in Paris is called the _Pont-Neuf_ (“new bridge”). The largest sized flash media format is the Compact Flash card. The slowest tool material for machining metal is called High Speed Steel. There’s got to be lots more. You’ll like this one, the main prison in my country is near the town of Libertad, so it’s called Penal de Libertad which literally means Penitentiary of Freedom. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2019, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-lol/842959/34 "2019-11-06T17:37:57Z")
Seems like what’s going to work in stand up depends entirely on who is delivering it. Not everyone can do Daniel Tosh’s material, and I doubt he could pull off a Cosby story. Personally, I’m a fan of laughing at horror and encouraging others to do the same. So in answer to the OP, think about truly horrible stuff and find the ironic or absurd twist to it. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2019, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-lol/842959/35 "2019-11-06T17:44:21Z")
Autonomic dysreflexic hijinks! ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2019, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-lol/842959/36 "2019-11-06T17:48:10Z")
Disabled people on UBI! ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2019, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-lol/842959/37 "2019-11-06T17:54:18Z")
Police interactions with black people gone comically awry! ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2019, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-lol/842959/38 "2019-11-06T22:57:04Z")
The “deal”. As in, 'what’s the deal with the hardware store? It’s not all hard, and we don’t wear any of it!" Or, “What’s the deal with Grape Nuts cereal? There’s no grapes; there’s no nuts. Who’s coming up with this name?!” And, “What’s the deal with laundry commercials? They are always telling you they can remove blood stains. I don’t know about you, but if you have blood stained on your clothes, you got bigger thing to worry about then laundry.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-lol/842959.md?page=1)