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Discussion Overview

The thread centers around sharing and enjoying lame jokes, with participants contributing various humorous quips and puns. The discussion explores the nature of humor, particularly focusing on jokes that are intentionally corny or groan-inducing.

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Main Points Raised

  • Some participants share their favorite lame jokes, such as the classic "Why did the chicken cross the road?" and variations on animal-related humor.
  • Others express differing opinions on the quality of certain jokes, with some finding them hilarious while others consider them unfunny or "lame." For example, one participant finds a specific horse joke funny, while another insists it doesn't qualify as lame.
  • A few jokes incorporate wordplay and puns, such as the "frayed knot" joke and the "super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis" joke, which elicit mixed reactions.
  • There are discussions about surreal humor, with some participants questioning the nature of certain jokes and their classification as humor, such as the "fish" response to a lightbulb question.
  • Participants also engage in playful banter about the quality of jokes and the nature of humor itself, with some joking about the reactions to their contributions.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

There is no clear consensus on what constitutes a "lame" joke, as participants express a range of opinions on the humor shared. Some jokes are appreciated by certain individuals while others find them lacking, indicating a diversity of taste in humor.

Contextual Notes

Some jokes rely on specific cultural references or wordplay that may not be universally understood, leading to varied interpretations among participants.

  • #6,301
I know this joke with physicists and engineers, and it comes with an extra line:

What do we learn from this? Engineers apply the methods of physics without understanding them.
 
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  • #6,302
mfb said:
I know this joke with physicists and engineers, and it comes with an extra line:

What do we learn from this? Engineers apply the methods of physics without understanding them.
Me with mathematicians and economist, including the extra line.
 
  • #6,303
This might get me banned, but here goes..

##\sin x=x ##
 
  • #6,304
"Uuh, those are fluffy little puppies, what's that breed?"
"Strawberry. About 11 weeks old."
 
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  • #6,305
fresh_42 said:
"Uuh, those are fluffy little puppies, what's that breed?"
"Strawberry. About 11 weeks old."
Anybody else not get this?
 
  • #6,306
Mark44 said:
Anybody else not get this?
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  • #6,307
Makes more sense if you include the picture...
 
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  • #6,308
For Today Only:

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  • #6,309
Mark44 said:
Anybody else not get this?
No one wants to get strawberries that old.
 
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  • #6,310
dont roll your eyes.jpg
 
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divorce lawyer.jpg
 
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  • #6,313
I would be careful with these - they might be lawyers just because their names give them clients, not because they are actually good.
 
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  • #6,314
I'm thinking about using a cloud storage service, but I am a bit hesitant regarding the stability of those.
Do they work on sunny days?
 
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DennisN said:
I'm thinking about using a cloud storage service, but I am a bit hesitant regarding the stability of those.
Do they work on sunny days?

speaking of cloud storage ...

new to cloud storage.jpg
 
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  • #6,316
DennisN said:
I'm thinking about using a cloud storage service, but I am a bit hesitant regarding the stability of those.
Do they work on sunny days?
No problem. The Internet is world-wide. If it's sunny where you are, your data is automatically routed to someplace cloudy before being sent upwards.
 
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  • #6,317
Ibix said:
Dewey, Cheatham & Howe, of course, provides more general legal services. Their website: http://www.dewey-cheatham-howe.com/
mfb said:
I would be careful with these - they might be lawyers just because their names give them clients, not because they are actually good.
I'm fairly sure the website above is fake. The links on that page (at least the couple I checked) generate 404 errors.
For our non-US readers, the bogus law firm of Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe was dreamed up by the hosts of NPR's Car Talk radio show, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, AKA "Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers."

Another made-up name they used often was that of a purported high school English teacher, I. M. Shirley Wright.
 
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  • #6,318
Mark44 said:
I'm fairly sure the website above is fake.

Oh, the website is real all right. It's the firm that's fake.
 
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  • #6,319
Mark44 said:
I'm fairly sure the website above is fake.
I was assuming @mfb was playing straight man. The website is definitely a spoof, even without your knowledge of the joke's origins. The phone number isn't particularly plausible to start with, and "we endeavor, both for our clients and ourselves, to acquire the property of others through the legal process and all other appropriate means" seems like a fairly obvious caricature of an amoral law firm.
 
  • #6,320
Ibix said:
fairly obvious caricature of an amoral law firm.

"My dad's a barber."
"Really? My dad's a lawyer."
"Honest?"
"No, just the regular kind."
 
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Mark44 said:
For our non-US readers, the bogus law firm of Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe was dreamed up by the hosts of NPR's Car Talk radio show, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, AKA "Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers."
Related to the apocryphal English law firm Sue, Grabbitt & Runne?
 
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  • #6,322
My diet has failed. I will now focus on growing taller.
 
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  • #6,323
I don't get why anyone wants to store clouds, but anyway. A specialist is someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing.
 
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  • #6,324
Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
 
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  • #6,325
WWGD said:
I don't get why anyone wants to store clouds, but anyway. A specialist is someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing.

Efficiency Tip:
If you were to compress the cloud into a more dense state, like a liquid, it could more efficiently be stored.
 
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  • #6,326
BillTre said:
Efficiency Tip:
If you were to compress the cloud into a more dense state, like a liquid, it could more efficiently be stored.
Normally, compressing it into a solid would be more dense, but since clouds are made of water, this is not the case.

Therefore I vote to use another material to make the cloud more efficient, one that the solid state is more dense than the liquid state, and since we can select any material other than water, let's take the densest (stable) one: Osmium.

Assuming an actual cloud has a density of 0.5 g/m³, this would reduce the space needed by a factor of 45 millions!
 
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jack action said:
Osmium
isn't save to hacker attacks by osmosis.
 
  • #6,328
Iridium storage then, 22.56 g/cm3

Wait, are we back to the sky now?
 
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abba kiss.jpg
 
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