Another thread reminded me of this one. I’ve seen it so many times–and now you are going to see it.
I’ve never seen that one.
The one that comes to mind, because it’s pretty much the only one that made me laugh and still makes me laugh sometimes, is the “In Soviet Russia, [something] [blanks] you!”.
Not sure why, but that one really cracked my ass up.
I know what you mean, but that isn’t really what I meant–that’s more like an in-joke (I’ve never seen it anywhere other than the Dope) phrase. More like a joke or anecdote that propagates by e-mail.
I think the phrase originated with Yakov Smirnov, who is now firmly entrenched in Branson, Missouri. What a country!
And now…
Moved from IMHO to MPSIMS.
Harumph!
I started typing the OP in MPSIMS then thought to myself “It’s a poll isn’t it? I’d better put it in IMHO.”
Oh well.
Hi Opal
Scylla, New Iskander and Updyke.
I was on an e-mail list. For a while it seemed that every new person who joined the list would post the diatribe about what would happen if Microsoft built cars. Every person. And it wasn’t all that funny to begin with.
There are no personal insults outside the Pit, lonesome loser. If you want to take a swipe at other posters, please do so there.
This being the one where bill gates argues with such-and-such car manufacturer over how far computers have adanced compared to cars - eg. ‘if you were advancing at the pace computers are, cars would be going a bajillion mph etc blahblah’ then the car guy comes back with something along the lines of ‘yes, but people don’t want their car to crash twice a day’?
There was ONE time that I heard this joke and laughed. In the first lesson of one class in first year uni a lecturer (with remarkably poor english - luckily he only took the first few weeks of it) says early on “I have joke!”. He proceeds to tell the above clearly having no idea whatsoever as to how to deliver a joke, while the class was trying their best to figure out what he was saying. Because he was so bad at telling it, there was a long pause when he finished… after which my friends and I broke out laughing.
Personally, I have seen the Bonsai Cat hoax more times than I care to remember because it seems that every month on deviantART some outraged poster tries to recruit people to sign an online petition against it.
Along those same lines, I have seen the ‘an electrical, mechanical, and software engineer are in a car that breaks down’ joke almsot as often.