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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Nov 9, 2008 19:52:14 GMT -5
I can agree that it's bawdy, and that it doesn't really have a punchline. But I can't see where it's a joke, because (and yeah, I know it's totally subjective) to me, it's not funny. Whenver I hear it, I look for the funny, but nope. Can't find "clever funny," can't find "slapstick funny," can't find any funny, much as I want to. Heh. Bush use of the punchline is the joke. Funny in a ridiculous way. I'm not really finding it funny, but maybe I need to actually see one of the sketches that the joke is based on. Also, it would probably be funnier if that type of joke was commonly known. Which I don't think it is, unless I'm the only person in the country who had never heard of it before.
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Post by SpringSummers on Nov 9, 2008 23:12:43 GMT -5
Heh. Bush use of the punchline is the joke. Funny in a ridiculous way. I'm not really finding it funny, but maybe I need to actually see one of the sketches that the joke is based on. Also, it would probably be funnier if that type of joke was commonly known. Which I don't think it is, unless I'm the only person in the country who had never heard of it before. I'm sure you're not the only person in the country who hasn't heard of it, but it's pretty well known, because there was this movie made about it . . . a movie named "The Aristocrats," I believe - it had many, many comedians telling the joke over and over in their various styles. The joke isn't funny to me in any way. I heard it told a bunch of different ways in the movie, but - nah. I didn't even hate it. I could not have found it more blah. Watching the movie, I felt like yelling: "The emperor has no clothes!" except this kind of thing is very subjective, and not so black-and-white as whether or not the emperor is wearing clothes. So I can only say: "Personally, I don't see a stitch of clothing on that emperor."
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Nov 10, 2008 1:54:24 GMT -5
I'm not really finding it funny, but maybe I need to actually see one of the sketches that the joke is based on. Also, it would probably be funnier if that type of joke was commonly known. Which I don't think it is, unless I'm the only person in the country who had never heard of it before. I'm sure you're not the only person in the country who hasn't heard of it, but it's pretty well known, because there was this movie made about it . . . a movie named "The Aristocrats," I believe - it had many, many comedians telling the joke over and over in their various styles. The joke isn't funny to me in any way. I heard it told a bunch of different ways in the movie, but - nah. I didn't even hate it. I could not have found it more blah. Watching the movie, I felt like yelling: "The emperor has no clothes!" except this kind of thing is very subjective, and not so black-and-white as whether or not the emperor is wearing clothes. So I can only say: "Personally, I don't see a stitch of clothing on that emperor." I haven't seen the movie, myself, but the reason I didn't want to see it is that I reacted to the articles and reviews thatway: it doesn't sound like the sort of thing that I find funny; I like wrd-play and wit and a little bit of surreality (my favorite humor in the world is the Spanish Inquisition skit) and it just sound like potty jokes to the nth degree. Julia, off to bed.
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Post by Sue on Nov 10, 2008 7:53:31 GMT -5
I'm sure you're not the only person in the country who hasn't heard of it, but it's pretty well known, because there was this movie made about it . . . a movie named "The Aristocrats," I believe - it had many, many comedians telling the joke over and over in their various styles. The joke isn't funny to me in any way. I heard it told a bunch of different ways in the movie, but - nah. I didn't even hate it. I could not have found it more blah. Watching the movie, I felt like yelling: "The emperor has no clothes!" except this kind of thing is very subjective, and not so black-and-white as whether or not the emperor is wearing clothes. So I can only say: "Personally, I don't see a stitch of clothing on that emperor." I haven't seen the movie, myself, but the reason I didn't want to see it is that I reacted to the articles and reviews thatway: it doesn't sound like the sort of thing that I find funny; I like wrd-play and wit and a little bit of surreality (my favorite humor in the world is the Spanish Inquisition skit) and it just sound like potty jokes to the nth degree. Julia, off to bed. I'll third this opinion. If I recall correctly the movie critics were anti-bell-curve shaped (loved it or hated it) and more was written about the fact that Bob Saget was one of the tellers and how his stage show is X rated compared to his "Full House" and "Funniest Videos" personas.
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Post by Onjel on Nov 10, 2008 9:41:17 GMT -5
I haven't seen the movie, myself, but the reason I didn't want to see it is that I reacted to the articles and reviews thatway: it doesn't sound like the sort of thing that I find funny; I like wrd-play and wit and a little bit of surreality (my favorite humor in the world is the Spanish Inquisition skit) and it just sound like potty jokes to the nth degree. Julia, off to bed. I'll third this opinion. If I recall correctly the movie critics were anti-bell-curve shaped (loved it or hated it) and more was written about the fact that Bob Saget was one of the tellers and how his stage show is X rated compared to his "Full House" and "Funniest Videos" personas. Well, I'll quadruple this opinion. I found the joke (at least the incarnation I read) to be more stupid and repulsive, than funny. It didn't even make me smile. Tired, old and not witty. I like my jokes witty and ironic.
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Post by Sue on Nov 10, 2008 10:42:53 GMT -5
Call this morning from Carolyn as she walked to class: Insane car traffic. She realized that it's because there are police on every corner and parking is prohibited on many streets because she lives near Malia and Sasha's elementary school. Parents are not being allow to drive up to drop their kids off. Everyone has to find parking a distance away and walk their kids to the school.
ETA: apparently Barack dropped the girls off today, according to pictures on Huffington Post. So that may explain some of it.
Also, she was invited to a wedding shower in D.C. on Sunday, Jan 18. She wasn't really going to attend because she's in 2 weddings (this one and another) in May and expenses are mounting but then she realized that the shower is Sunday, MLK day is MOnday (so no classes to miss) and Inauguration is Tuesday. So now she thinks she'll go but there are no southwest flights to be had, no Amtrak [well, yeah, everybody from Chicago who can is going]. I told her to take the car and sell the other 3 seats to cover expenses, drive overnight Sat and Tues. We shall see. Obviously it's going to be an insane "mob" scene so hard to know if it's worth the experience of being one of millions blocks away from anything.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Nov 11, 2008 23:34:09 GMT -5
I thought this was interesting. The election and American history from a Canadian perspective. American for a Day.
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Post by SpringSummers on Nov 12, 2008 9:01:50 GMT -5
I thought this was interesting. The election and American history from a Canadian perspective. American for a Day. Thanks for sharing this, Liz. Really interesting and insightful. Canada and the USA have an interesting chemistry.
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Post by Karen on Nov 12, 2008 10:07:37 GMT -5
I thought this was interesting. The election and American history from a Canadian perspective. American for a Day. But Barack Obama’s election seems to me a victory of optimism over cynicism, thought over fear.Exactly.
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Post by SpringSummers on Nov 12, 2008 10:54:22 GMT -5
I thought this was interesting. The election and American history from a Canadian perspective. American for a Day. But Barack Obama’s election seems to me a victory of optimism over cynicism, thought over fear.Exactly. Yes. Nicely done essay. I suppose volumes could be written, and possibly have been written, about American-Canadian dynamics. I've never seen Canada as particularly superior or inferior - just different. And as they say in Quebec: Vive la Différence!
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