# When your dumb jokes become irrelevant. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 12, 2009, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-your-dumb-jokes-become-irrelevant/506177 "2009-08-12T14:19:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-your-dumb-jokes-become-irrelevant/506177/1 "2009-08-12T14:19:11Z")
Don’t you hate it when a stupid stand joke of yours becomes pointless, and you look like an ass? I have always like the BBC show Time Team. It’s not one of the biggies brought over here in the U.S. and only shows up randomly on odd semi-PBS stations at odd times. The mechanics of archeology have always fascinated me as much as the discoveries. So when ever I am flipping past and I see it I usually end up watching. But when talking about it I feel oddly compelled to make the same dumb joke. “You really couldn’t do that show over here, What are you going to do, dig up the parking lot of a strip mall to find the remains of an earlier, smaller strip mall from 1970?” But yesterday someone condescendingly told me they did make an American version of it now. And checking on Wiki today I see that they did. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-your-dumb-jokes-become-irrelevant/506177/2 "2009-08-12T14:57:38Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > But when talking about it I feel oddly compelled to make the same dumb joke. “You really couldn’t do that show over here, What are you going to do, dig up the parking lot of a strip mall to find the remains of an earlier, smaller strip mall from 1970?” My dumb joke is: “I don’t know why they expend all that time and effort digging up fragments of an old vase. It would be cheaper to buy a new one at the shop.” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-your-dumb-jokes-become-irrelevant/506177/3 "2009-08-12T15:06:06Z")
“Why do people spend years writing a novel, when you can pick one up in a bookstore for less than $10?” ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-your-dumb-jokes-become-irrelevant/506177/4 "2009-08-12T18:48:53Z")
Why do people run farms when they can just get their food at the grocery store? ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-your-dumb-jokes-become-irrelevant/506177/5 "2009-08-12T20:16:42Z")
_Time Team_ sounds familiar. Isn’t that the one with Tony Robinson and that long-haired guy with the strong Cornish accent? ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-your-dumb-jokes-become-irrelevant/506177/6 "2009-08-12T21:05:54Z")
Ahem. Public television person here. _Time Team America_ debuted on our network in July. So far, the topics have been: • Fort Raleigh, North Carolina — Untangle the mystery of the first English settlement in America, where 116 settlers vanished from Roanoke Island more than 400 years ago. • Topper, South Carolina — Wade into the alligator swamps of South Carolina to search for evidence of North America’s first human inhabitants. • New Philadelphia, Illinois — Walk the time-buried streets of the first American town founded by former slaves, and go in search of the schoolhouse where the town’s children could learn in freedom. • Range Creek, Utah — Venture into remote red-rock canyons where the Fremont Indians lived 1,000 years ago in a rugged, unforgiving landscape. • Fort James, South Dakota — Search for a stone fortress built by the U.S. Cavalry to protect frontier settlers in the Wild West. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-your-dumb-jokes-become-irrelevant/506177/7 "2009-08-12T22:44:17Z")
Just to be accurate, it’s not a BBC programme, it’s Channel 4. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-your-dumb-jokes-become-irrelevant/506177/8 "2009-08-13T05:46:06Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > _Time Team_ sounds familiar. Isn’t that the one with Tony Robinson and that long-haired guy with the strong Cornish accent? Around these parts it’s known as “the one with Baldrick”. > [@wolfman](#): > > “You really couldn’t do that show over here, What are you going to do, dig up the parking lot of a strip mall to find the remains of an earlier, smaller strip mall from 1970?” > > But yesterday someone condescendingly told me they did make an American version of it now. “And? Did they find it?” ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-your-dumb-jokes-become-irrelevant/506177/9 "2009-08-13T06:32:45Z")
> [@Cazzle](#): > > Around these parts it’s known as “the one with Baldrick”. > > “And? Did they find it?” Well I guess you’ll have to ask Ellen Cherry 😉