Collection of Lame Jokes

[Ibix]

One of the first things I learned from my neighbor's color TV was if you're on Star Trek, don't wear a red shirt.

I have read, but have not confirmed, that actually a red shirt is the safest colour. It's true that the majority of extras who bought it were redshirts, but the vast majority of away team extras were redshirts - so their survival probability isn't too bad. I gather that gold is actually the worst colour. Few of them beam down, but when they do they don't come back...

 

[DaveC426913]

I have read, but have not confirmed, that actually a red shirt is the safest colour. It's true that the majority of extras who bought it were redshirts, but the vast majority of away team extras were redshirts - so their survival probability isn't too bad. I gather that gold is actually the worst colour. Few of them beam down, but when they do they don't come back...

Yep. Some guy tallied the deaths in every ep.

Ultimately, red shirts win in the numbers game. There's, like, 350 of them.

The takeway is:
You're safest as red shirt crew; but woe betide the few who are tapped for away missions.

 

[sysprog]

My recollection is that red-shirt security guys were especially expendable.

 

[Ibix]

My recollection is that red-shirt security guys were especially expendable.

The point was that they only beamed down gold shirts when they needed an extra to do something other than stand guard. Main characters would normally do all of that, so they only used a minor character when they were going to be killed.

A lot of redshirts died. But percentage-wise, you really didn't want to leave the ship in a gold shirt, because you were just there to be killed in place of a regular.

 

[fresh_42]

 

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[berkeman]

*Facepalm*

At first I thought it was about boiling water to sterilize it (I'm a skimmer, not a reader). So of course I didn't get the joke. Let me "read" it about 5 times so I can get the joke...

 

[WWGD]

*Facepalm*

At first I thought it was about boiling water to sterilize it (I'm a skimmer, not a reader). So of course I didn't get the joke. Let me "read" it about 5 times so I can get the joke...

No, I think you're just an egghead, like most of us in this site

 

[fresh_42]

No, I think you're just an egghead, like most of us in this site

No, he is job blind. They only use pasta water for infusions!

 

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[Keith_McClary]

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Either that, or hunters should have to go into the woods unarmed and naked.

 

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Guess cats are affected by TV/Movies:

 

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Wow, if I was a conspiracy theorist. My post number was 11,969. Apollo 11, 1969. ( There are much thinner premises behind some conspiracies).

 

[Keith_McClary]

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For flat-earthers, it would be "You're one of those guys that believe in metrics".
(That would require a flat-earther who knows what a metric is.)

 

[Ibix]

Wow, if I was a conspiracy theorist. My post number was 11,969. Apollo 11, 1969. ( There are much thinner premises behind some conspiracies).

The Illuminatus! trilogy makes much of the presence of the mystic number 5 and and the numbers 2 and 3 that add to 5 in a great many significant dates, times, and events (e.g. JFK was shot on the 22nd in '63). One character eventually points out the con game, that practically any date is significant with such a scheme, and if it isn't then there's always times, street numbers, ages... One of them will contain a magic combination, then conspiracy confirmed!

 

[fresh_42]

Either that, or hunters should have to go into the woods unarmed and naked.

For the record: it was a Canadian sign. Just saying.

 

[Ibix]

Amusingly, I originally wrote that JFK was shot on the 23rd, but a quick trip to Wikipedia corrected me. Fortunately, it was in '63, so I was easily able to confirm the conspiracy on either date!

<Dons tinfoil hat>

 

[WWGD]

The Illuminatus! trilogy makes much of the presence of the mystic number 5 and and the numbers 2 and 3 that add to 5 in a great many significant dates, times, and events (e.g. JFK was shot on the 22nd in '63). One character eventually points out the con game, that practically any date is significant with such a scheme, and if it isn't then there's always times, street numbers, ages... One of them will contain a magic combination, then conspiracy confirmed!

You're just scrambling to deny that 63=22*3-3+ 5*0, aren't you? / Sarc

 

[Ibix]

You're just scrambling to deny that 63=22*3-3+ 5*0, aren't you? / Sarc

That's the spirit!

 

[Bandersnatch]

 

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[jtbell]

Don't even think about driving through here...

 

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[Ibix]

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"Football is a gentleman's game played by thugs; rugby is a thug's game played by gentlemen."

 

[fresh_42]

"Football is a gentleman's game played by thugs; rugby is a thug's game played by gentlemen."

Football players pretend to be injured while fit, and rugby players pretend to be fit while injured.

 

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[DrGreg]

I gave my seat for an old lady in the bus. Next day I lost my job as a driver.

A joke based on a similar principle:

My grandfather died peacefully in his sleep.

Unlike his passengers.

 

[fresh_42]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Owens

 

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I guess Fargo part 2?

 

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University degrees in Egyptology have been found to be a Pyramid Scheme.

 

[DaveC426913]

True Story:

Phone Interviewer: "And then you will get a call from our Managing Director, Benoit."
Me: "Great, what's his last name?"
Interviewer: "It's long."
Me: "OK, I've got a pen and paper. How do you spell it?"
Interviewer: ...
Interviewer: "L ..."
Me: (writing down 'L') "Uh huh?"
Interviewer: "O ..."^{(And, yes I got the job anyway.)}

 

[jack action]

When my wife picks up a restaurant I don't like, I just say "Oh yeah, that's where that really cute girl works."

Problem solved.

 

[Ibix]

When my wife picks up a restaurant I don't like, I just say "Oh yeah, that's where that really cute girl works."

Problem solved.

Reminds me of the old saw about solving a problem using a regex: now you have two problems...

 

[Ibix]

A rabbit walked into a bar and ordered a pint and a cheese toastie. He quickly finished the food and nursed his pint for a bit until, still feeling a bit peckish, he ordered a mushroom toastie. He finished it and his pint and left.

A week later he came back in again and ordered a pint. The barman barely recognised him because he looked terrible, swollen and with a cough.

"Are you OK mate?" he asked.

"It's having the different toasties last week," answered the rabbit. "I should have known better. This is just from mixin' m'toasties."

 

[BillTre]

 

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[Ibix]

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Wow. At least if it were an oncoming train you could squeeze against the tunnel wall and hope...

 

[Hamiltonian]

we were all cringey back then...but at least we were happy.

 

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[jack action]

Shortly after a British Airways flight had reached its cruising altitude, the captain announced:

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your Captain. Welcome to Flight 293, non-stop from London Heathrow to Toronto. The weather ahead is good, so we should have a smooth uneventful flight. So sit back, relax, and ... OH, MY GOD!"

Silence followed!

Some moments later the captain came back on the intercom:

"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry if I scared you. While I was talking to you, a flight attendant accidentally spilled a cup of hot coffee in my lap. You should see the front of my pants!"

One Irish passenger yelled ...

"For @#*#* sake ... you should see the back of mine!"

 

[BillTre]