Collection of Lame Jokes

[BillTre]

 

[dextercioby]

 

[jtbell]

A tribute band to Earth, Wind & Fire?

 

[jtbell]

I was just reading a collection of anecdotes about rich people. Some of them have eccentric hobbies.

"I dated a girl in college. [...] Her dad had a barn full of mint vintage Porches."

 

[dextercioby]

 

[WWGD]

A friend asked what I would regret most if I died in my sleep. Probably going to bed that night.

 

[WWGD]

 

[nsaspook]

 

[dextercioby]

 

[BillTre]

 

[DaveC426913]

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[ nerding out]
Aside from the humor aspect, this image is very unusual.

• It is highly compressed, with a 256-color palette, the checkerboard pixelation is a give-away.
• The file itself is comparatively large: 463k (photographic images compress way better with JPG.)
• It will not load into an editor - such as Photoshop - as a .png.

All of these things are indications that this more likely an animated gif that has been broken.

I have experienced this when I try to copy and animated gif from Google results. They break. What one must do (if one wants to show the animation) is - rather than copy-pasting the file - downloading/uploading the file.

[ /nerding out ]

 

[Klystron]

[ nerding out]
Aside from the humor aspect, this image is very unusual.

• It is highly compressed, with a 256-color palette, the checkerboard pixelation is a give-away.
• The file itself is comparatively large: 463k (photographic images compress way better with JPG.)
• It will not load into an editor - such as Photoshop - as a .png.

All of these things are indications that this more likely an animated gif that has been broken.

I have experienced this when I try to copy and animated gif from Google results. They break. What one must do (if one wants to show the animation) is - rather than copy-pasting the file - downloading/uploading the file.

[ /nerding out ]

IDK about animation but do you think the person sleeping beneath the statue has been 'photoshoped' to resemble Arnold?

I missed the joke. Aside from resemblance, does this montage imply that Schwarzenegger is a has-been? Politically outdoors?

 

[jtbell]

I've seen expiration dates on a lot of food items, but this bag of potato chips has the first expiration time I've seen. Tick tick tick...

 

[WWGD]

IDK about animation but do you think the person sleeping beneath the statue has been 'photoshoped' to resemble Arnold?

I missed the joke. Aside from resemblance, does this montage imply that Schwarzenegger is a has-been? Politically outdoors?

Not a has been. He recently starred in "Omelette: 2B or not 2B".

 

[nsaspook]

IDK about animation but do you think the person sleeping beneath the statue has been 'photoshoped' to resemble Arnold?

I missed the joke. Aside from resemblance, does this montage imply that Schwarzenegger is a has-been? Politically outdoors?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/schwarzenegger-hotel-statue/

In reality, the photograph (which is legitimate) was taken in January 2016, while the Hollywood star was shooting a film in Columbus, Ohio. Schwarzenegger posted it to his Instagram account on 15 January 2016, apparently as a joke:

 

[WWGD]

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/schwarzenegger-hotel-statue/

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He went on to make a movie based on Classical music: " I'll be Bach".

 

[DaveC426913]

IDK about animation but do you think the person sleeping beneath the statue has been 'photoshoped' to resemble Arnold?

The whole sleeping person is 'shopped in. The lighting and colour saturation or foreground and background don't match at all. Not to mention the scale discrepancy.

But that's not a knock against it or its laugh-quotient. Memes are not supposed to pretend to be real.

In fact, in many memes, the obvious fakeness is, itself, integral to the message and humour:

I missed the joke. Aside from resemblance, does this montage imply that Schwarzenegger is a has-been? Politically outdoors?

Dunno, actually.

 

[nsaspook]

The whole sleeping person is 'shopped in. The lighting and colour saturation or foreground and background don't match at all. Not to mention the scale discrepancy.

But that's not a knock against it or its laugh-quotient. Memes are not supposed to pretend to be real. In fact, the obvious fakeness is, itself, integral to the message and humour.


Dunno, actually.

No. The photo is real. (Yes, I posted a very bad copy of it) It was made as a joke and posted in here as a joke.

https://www.eonline.com/news/731743...t-to-a-statue-of-his-bodybuilder-self-in-ohio

 

[DaveC426913]

The photo is real.

https://www.eonline.com/news/731743...t-to-a-statue-of-his-bodybuilder-self-in-ohio

Sunuvagun. Would've bet a lot of money it was 'shopped based just on photo-analysis.

 

[Klystron]

No. The photo is real. (Yes, I post a very bad copy of it) It was made as a joke and posted in here as a joke.

https://www.eonline.com/news/731743...t-to-a-statue-of-his-bodybuilder-self-in-ohio

Wow. That is funny, actually being Arnold. In one of his first films about a bodybuilding competition, Schwarzenegger pretended to sleep.

Edit 20250331: The documentary was released in 1977 as "Pumping Iron". Arnold acts naturally humorous, pretending to nap with a smaller contestant to psyche him out. Fans of "The Hulk" TV series can see and hear contestant Lou Ferrigno wearing hearing aids off-stage and talking unaided as a deaf person.

 

[DrGreg]

I've seen expiration dates on a lot of food items, but this bag of potato chips has the first expiration time I've seen. Tick tick tick...

And three centuries in the future!

 

[nsaspook]

Sunuvagun. Would've bet a lot of money it was 'shopped based just on photo-analysis.

The crazy thing today, the better it looks, the more likely it is to be a fake (AI generated).

 

[Tom.G]

I've seen expiration dates on a lot of food items, but this bag of potato chips has the first expiration time I've seen. Tick tick tick...

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The "H 4B 5:03 PM" are the plant, packaging line, and time that particular bag was filled. (not necessarily in that order)

It is included so if their is a recall, the correct batch can be easily indentified in inventory, and also which packaging line to investigate.

 

[davenn]

 

[nsaspook]

Not too close, you never want to cross the streams. What happens?
"Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light."

 

[berkeman]

 

[BillTre]

 

[DennisN]

 

[Ibix]

A friend asked what I would regret most if I died in my sleep. Probably going to bed that night.

I recall an interview on the radio back in the 1980s with a lady, then in her nineties. Asked to what she attributed her long life, she replied "deciding not to sail on the Titanic".

 

[Swamp Thing]

I don't suppose I am the first person in the world to notice this "phenomenon", but it does say lame jokes in the thread title...

 

[jtbell]

What do you call a theatrical production based on puns?

A play on words.

 

[jtbell]

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I bet he'd like to vroom with her!

 

[WWGD]

I took out the Swiss knife someone gifted me just to look at it in the elevator. I ended up with 5 wallets on me.

 

[DaveC426913]

I took out the Swiss knife someone gifted me just to look at it in the elevator. I ended up with 5 wallets on me.

You operate on an entirely different plane than I.

 

[WWGD]

You operate on an entirely different plane than I.

They thought I was holding them up when they saw the knife out.

 

[DrGreg]

I took out the Swiss knife someone gifted me just to look at it in the elevator. I ended up with 5 wallets on me.

Doing that in an elevator is wrong on so many levels.

 

[WWGD]

Did someone attack Reese Witherspoon? No, with a knife.

 

[BillTre]

Picklehenge:

 

[jack action]

You operate on an entirely different plane than I.

I really do not recommend doing that on a plane.

 

[jtbell]

I really do not recommend doing that on a plane.

Can you even board a plane with a Swiss army knife?

 

[berkeman]

 

[gmax137]

Can you even board a plane with a Swiss army knife?

I inadvertently had my 25 year old Swiss army knife in my carryon bag. The Mexican airport police have it now

 

[berkeman]

I inadvertently had my 25 year old Swiss army knife in my carryon bag. The Mexican airport police have it now

Same here. I realized that I had not put my 2.5 inch pocket knife in my checked luggage in my last self-patdown before the scanner (Duh), and handed it to the TSA agent with an apology. Note to self...

 

[phinds]

I lost one that way years ago, not long after 9-11 but have not forgotten the rules since then. Very annoying, too, 'cause it was a really nice short-blade Buck pen knife.

 

[nsaspook]

I lost one that way years ago, not long after 9-11 but have not forgotten the rules since then. Very annoying, too, 'cause it was a really nice short-blade Buck pen knife.

I miss the old days when we would board the plane with a complete electronic tool box filled with knives and just about every sharp tool imaginable. All they wanted to see was my field engineering business card. This security theater is getting old.

 

[gmax137]

I miss the old days when we would board the plane with a complete electronic tool box filled with knives and just about every sharp tool imaginable. All they wanted to see was my field engineering business card. This security theater is getting old.

I remember carrying on a disc grinder with cutoff wheels, belt sander, and a 24 inch vernier caliper. On an overseas flight to Belgium. Must have been 1990s.

 

[BillTre]

 

[berkeman]

 

[Klystron]

I miss the old days when we would board the plane with a complete electronic tool box filled with knives and just about every sharp tool imaginable. All they wanted to see was my field engineering business card. This security theater is getting old.

I remember carrying on a disc grinder with cutoff wheels, belt sander, and a 24 inch vernier caliper. On an overseas flight to Belgium. Must have been 1990s.

"Security theater" so true. How times have changed.

Flying into McCarran, now Harry Reid, airport back in the day.
Shared aircraft with several sale reps preparing for an annual international trade show at Las Vegas Expo Center. Most of their equipment had been shipped ahead but the Beretta, Mossberg and Benelli reps hand carried exemplars of their finest shotgun technology in beautifully crafted carrying cases.

 

[fresh_42]

Leash of the week.​