JOKES to DECOMPRESS

[MR_TOM_SCHRY]

pr154,That is great! I could see my wife saying something like that.

[WhatIfRebel]

It’s so hot today even my fan melted.
(Temps today in Wisconsin could be from 90-100.)

[RealG]

So THAT’S why all the McDonald’s soft serve machines are out across the nation! It was the Sith all along!

Actually, I had an opportunity to read the Taylor soft serve operation and maintenance manual, and the cleaning schedule is incredibly complex. Plus Taylor only allows authorized companies to perform maintenance on their machines. Hmmm… more evil being influenced by the Dark Side?

[PropDuster]

[fxsti03-42]

[PropDuster]

fxsti03-42, Thanks I knew somebody would understand my pain

[Cbowling]

A friend of mine sent me this.

[JoeCalPo]

In the same vein but completely different:

A man walked into a bar, and said “Ow”.

(That’s the whole joke. Give a moment.)

[SprueOne]

5 Min Epoxy just means it only takes 5 minutes to mix A+B together. Not that it will necessarily cure in 5 minutes

[keavdog]

Reminds me of a similar joke

3 guys walk into a bar - you the the last guy would have ducked.

[Pawel]

@JoeCalPo

A man walked into a bar, and said “Ow”.

@keavdog

3 guys walk into a bar - you the the last guy would have ducked.

I know it’s not cool to explain jokes… But as a non-native english speaker I thought 'd ask for an explanation… Then writing it it kinda started dawning on me… Are we talking about collisions with elongated objects here?

Thanks in advance for clarification and have a nice day!

Paweł

[RealG]

Hey, English is my first language and I didn’t get it!

Oh yeah, I’m just slow…

[JoeCalPo]

Hello Pawel,
There is a tradition of jokes in English that start with “A man” or “Three men” or “A priest, a rabbi, and a minister” walk into a drinking establishment, sometimes called a bar, sometimes a pub, sometimes, a saloon. Then something silly happens and there is a punch line.
In this joke, the “bar” becomes a physical object as you surmised, and walking into it hurts the man. It then becomes a mental twist on the original joke as the listener is expecting more, and therefore has to work out the word play. Some people do, some people don’t.
So it requires a knowledge of the traditions of English humor and an English vocabulary.

[Pawel]

Thanks a lot for the explanation! I’m glad to say my english is good enough that I almost worked it out on my own!

So here’s a joke translated from Polish… Let’s see if it’s funny in English. I already got some blank stares in German, so let’s see…

A para jumps from the aircraft during maneuvers, but in all the excitement he forgot his parachute… So as he falls down he spots another soldier in the air and shouts: hey, don’t you have a reserve chute for me? And the other shouts back, Dang, no, I’m an EOD guy!

Have a nice day!
Paweł

[Frozin]

Very nicely explained and way better than I could have done.

[Strongeagle]

I’m an EOD guy?, I don’t get it, and I’ve been known to have a sense of humor.???

[keavdog]

I’m guessing an EOD (Explosive Ordinance Disposal) guy lives dangerously so doesn’t need/want a reserve chute. @Pawel - about right?

[Pawel]

See? That’s a sociology/linguistic experiment right there…

For many Polish people it becomes quite obvious quickly, that the only way to see the EOD guy in the air is because he had been blown up… (there is a polish phrase that says “wysadzić w powietrze” - literally “to blow up in the air” - used when something explodes. Without it the joke apparently fails!)

Thanks for your comments and have a nice day!

Paweł

[keavdog]

Ha - that’s pretty funny understanding the context.

[JoeCalPo]

So they passed, one falling and one rising!