Collection of Lame Jokes

[BillTre]

Strangely, though, I do remember all sorts of other minutia with little if any problem. Just not faces.

Faces have their own special recognition area(s) in the brain.
See the man who mistook his wife for a hat book (https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Mistook-His-Wife/dp/0684853949?tag=pfamazon01-20).

 

[Bystander]

Oh, but Zed's dead baby... Zed's dead...

"Ving Rames," the only reason to deliberately name a male child "Irving" rather than "Sue."

 

[Ibix]

After a head injury in 2000 my brain "recognized" almost every passing face, making walking through an airport quite interesting.

"Interesting" as in the (alleged) Chinese curse "may you live in interesting times", I take it. That must have been an extremely strange sensation.

 

[Ibix]

"Ving Rames," the only reason to deliberately name a male child "Irving" rather than "Sue."

"A boy named Sue"? One of my favourites from Johnny Cash.

 

[DaveC426913]

 

[BillTre]

 

[dextercioby]

 

[BillTre]

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They also make snacks for the dinosaurs during breaks in production.

 

[Swamp Thing]

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When they say he "had" extra children... ?

 

[jtbell]

I recognise them and I can usually remember where I worked with them enough to have a casual conversation in the corridor, but can I remember their names...?

It happened to me yesterday in a restaurant. As I was walking to my table, a guy at a nearby table waved at me and smiled. His face looked familiar but I couldn't remember the name, so I just waved and smiled back. This is a popular place in a small town, so it's common to see people that you know or sort of know.

 

[davenn]

 

[berkeman]

 

[nsaspook]

 

[dextercioby]

 

[davenn]

 

[jtbell]

Or a bicycle.

 

[nuuskur]

 

[fresh_42]

 

[nsaspook]

Found the boat but no Mary Ann or Ginger.

 

[dextercioby]

 

[dextercioby]

 

[fresh_42]

 

[davenn]

Or a bicycle.

yup, that is the other common one

I think the worse part is that you have a machine asking humans to prove that they are not a machine !!

 

[Ibix]

yup, that is the other common one

I think the worse part is that you have a machine asking humans to prove that they are not a machine !!

There's a video somewhere of a robot arm using a touchscreen pen to complete one of those checks, complete with pen drop at the end.

 

[Ibix]

yup, that is the other common one

I think the worse part is that you have a machine asking humans to prove that they are not a machine !!

Of course, there's also Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal's characteristic take on it.

 

[jack action]

A couple of cows were smoking a joint and playing cards.

That's right. The steaks were pretty high.

 

[Orodruin]

A couple of cows were smoking a joint and playing cards.

That's right. The steaks were pretty high.

 

[fresh_42]

Goetheborg.​

Ok, it's primarily a joke for those who can pronounce oe=ö correctly and know the real name of Gothenburg.

 

[DaveC426913]

Ok, it's primarily a joke for those who can pronounce oe=ö correctly and know the real name of Gothenburg.

ö sounds like the oo in book, right?

 

[jtbell]

ö sounds like the oo in book, right?

Er... (not quite that, either, but it's as close as most Anglophone-only types are likely to get.)