So my best friend has ovarian cancer. And she's a divorced mom with no family. All of the support is going to come from friends, and I'm the Friend Leader. I'm going to be asking a million questions about this, I bet, in the coming months, but here's where I'm starting: if I say anything sweet or sentimental to her, she's gonna give me a black eye. I need snarky, sarcastic humor & presents for one of the smartest cancer patients ever.
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posted by BlahLaLa
on May 17, 2013 -
27 answers
The fruit of our looms has discovered ghost tales. You know -
Bloody Mary and her ilk. However she has not yet heard "If the log rolls over we will all be dead."
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posted by peagood
on Nov 8, 2012 -
1 answer
I'm taking care of my friend's car for two weeks while he's on vacation. What are some silly things I can do with his car as a joke that he can follow on Facebook?
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posted by Locative
on Jun 15, 2012 -
31 answers
In the spirit of "rectum, damn near killed 'em!", what are other words that can be followed with a joke/punchline?
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posted by neilkod
on Feb 28, 2012 -
98 answers
For the last couple of years, my SO and I have an on-going theme involving skunks that colors our April Fool's Day mischief. Help me find an inflatable skunk to keep the stinkin’ hilarity going!
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posted by numinous
on Jan 10, 2012 -
3 answers
My friend is turning 30 and thinks he's old. I'm getting him an old man starter kit: hard candies (Werther's Originals of course), Metamucil...what else should I include?
posted by echo target
on Nov 18, 2011 -
78 answers
Looking for insults and jokes for my husbands 40th birthday party. It is a roast. He is a metrosexual, known for wearing pink. He plays golf and is known to get a little angry if he doesn't play well. He also loves poker and again gets angry if he loses. He thinks he has a big head, not conceited, but a physically big head. He comes across as arrogant but he really isn't if you get to know him. Jokes need to be relatively clean ie pg-13. Thanks
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posted by Robtri93
on Oct 26, 2011 -
23 answers
Under what circumstances is it acceptable to laugh at one's own joke, and what are the social implications of doing so?
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posted by foursentences
on Jul 30, 2011 -
35 answers
I'm looking for a kids joke that some how involves Wonder Woman's body, possibly as the punch line. All that is remembered is the following: "Knock Knock? Who's there? Wonder Woman's Body!" and laughter ensues. It was told by my sister-in-law in the 1980s when she was a wee one, so it might just be little kid humor, but I'm hoping there might be more to this joke.
posted by filthy light thief
on Jul 13, 2011 -
9 answers
GagPrizeFilter: If I wanted to either a) have a shiny gold (spraypainted?) rubber chicken mounted to a plaque or b) have a gold rubber chicken converted into something that could be worn like a medal, how would I go about doing this / obtaining one? This needs to be done in 1 week (for next Friday.)
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posted by lalochezia
on Mar 31, 2011 -
8 answers
Help me find examples of parodies, jokes, and satirical pieces that eventually became real.
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posted by Ndwright
on Feb 9, 2011 -
67 answers
My geeky, standup and improv-performing friend is turning 50 today. I'm supposed to bring a joke to his party. I got nothing. Any suggestions?
posted by donpardo
on Sep 24, 2010 -
42 answers
I vaguely remember a joke, probably from the mid to late 90s, in which two technologists are speaking. The start out in English, using more and more tech jargon as the conversation progresses, until they end up speaking in ones and zeros. I would now like to reference this fictional conversation, but can't find it. Can anyone source my vague memory?
posted by scottreynen
on Jul 20, 2010 -
14 answers
I'm giving a presentation next month need a funny joke about the difference between chemists/scientists and engineers (because I'm an engineer doing chemistry)
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posted by beammeup4
on Jul 9, 2010 -
22 answers
Please complete this joke:
A guy goes a psychiatrist. He doesn't say anything during the entire hour. He comes back a week later. Neither one of them says anything. He comes back a third time. Silence right up to the end. Finally, he says . . . something. The psychiatrist responds. And that brings us to the punchline. Which is hilarious. . . I'm sure.
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posted by stuart_s
on Jun 27, 2010 -
9 answers
I'm particularly looking for a one liner that did the rounds a month or two back that said something to the effect of "my playstation won't power up while the [xbox] green light is showing", but any clever "My console > your console" will do.
posted by kreestar
on Jun 5, 2010 -
3 answers
I DESPERATELY need jokes about politicians for a speech tomorrow. Can anyone help me with some (relatively clean) and hopefully snappy material?
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posted by marmaduke_yaverland
on May 24, 2010 -
16 answers
Have there been any good, scholarly studies on the "Chuck Norris" style of one-liner joke/folklore? How old is this style of joke?
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posted by samthemander
on May 9, 2010 -
12 answers
Hegelians, gather round and join in the greatest waste of an AskMeFi question since the previous greatest one. Did Hegel leave us with two very important concepts or just the one?
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posted by bryon
on May 6, 2010 -
9 answers
Looking for a briefly popular internet joke from a year or two ago. Setup was if the discovery of fire had been posted to slashdot (Digg? other?). Response is something like: "Too hot, smoke gets in your eyes, goes out too fast. Fail." Ringing any bells? Google is failing me.
posted by hihowareyou
on Dec 31, 2009 -
4 answers
"I'm not a vegetarian, I eat meat. It's not because I love the taste of meat, it's because I hate cows." Where have I heard this joke before?
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posted by bunnytricks
on Nov 26, 2009 -
13 answers
I once read an old cookbook that, at the end, had a recipe for saint. I want to find it again. Any clues?
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posted by kenko
on Oct 4, 2009 -
3 answers
At the beginning of Bret Easton Ellis's
Rules of Attraction, a townie makes a joke about a rat and an elephant having sex that I've heard in a movie before. What was that movie? Ellis's (NSFW?) version of the joke under cut.
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posted by oinopaponton
on Jul 19, 2009 -
7 answers
Could someone explain to me two references I don't get? In
Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog, Billy receives a letter from "Dead, Not Sleeping" (
clip). Is that a reference to something? Also, in the
Total Eclipse of the Heart "literal" video I
posted to Mefi, there's a lyric that says: "And I've joined the Glee Club of the Damned (reference joke!)" (
clip). What's "Glee Club of the Damned" a reference to? I presume it's a reference to
something since they outright say it is ...
posted by WCityMike
on Jul 4, 2009 -
20 answers
Joke-Filter: What is the origin of the joke with the punch-line "rectum damn near killed him"? Bonus points if you actually have the set-up to the joke (if there is one).
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posted by xdeliriumx
on May 15, 2009 -
14 answers
My SO and I have completely opposite work schedules, so often the only way we can communicate for days at a time is through notes and text messages. I'm looking for cute and unique little poems and phrases to send him throughout the day to send him. My favorite examples are inside:
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posted by chara
on Apr 18, 2009 -
12 answers
A man wants to enter a city, but only knights can enter the city, so he decides to see how the knights do it. ...What's the punchline?
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posted by specialagentwebb
on Apr 8, 2009 -
8 answers
Can anyone remember a silly "poem" that has the line:
"and then they fell from the floor up to the balcony and broke the front side of their back"
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posted by mbatch
on Mar 26, 2009 -
5 answers
I need help figuring out how to write stand-up comedy style jokes. It may seem like a contradiction but the thing is that I understand the technical construction of existing jokes, it's just that I can't seem to figure out how to write one of my own. My specific problem is that I don't know how to extract a punch line out of an idea for a joke. How do you do that? I have a good sense of humor and I have an original way of thinking so I think I may have some potential to put something of some kind together. I hope someone(s) will understand what I mean and be able to help.
Thanks!
posted by atm
on Mar 5, 2009 -
12 answers
Bahasa Indonesia speakers! My late, beloved grandmother was an expert in dreadful multi-lingual puns. Help me remember a silly joke she used to tell about roosters.
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posted by [ixia]
on Nov 13, 2008 -
6 answers
When I was a kid (in the early 70s), this baffling "riddle" was all the rage in the schoolyard: A: "Guess what?" B: "What?" A: "THAT'S what!" I thought this was a quirky but of Southern Indiana nonsense, but my wife -- who hails from Alabama -- also remembers it from her youth. What does it mean? What's its origin?
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posted by grumblebee
on Sep 9, 2008 -
53 answers
Quick! What is the joke about the vindow vasher? My friends and I are going nuts! ..and looking up salmon PR)N.
posted by xorry
on Jun 29, 2008 -
11 answers
explain-this-joke filter? "Hey, if *I'm* late, think what her husband's saying." (from The Talented Mr. Ripley)
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posted by lorimer
on May 24, 2008 -
6 answers
People often say: "The best way to make a small fortune in [insert industry here] is to start with a large one" Who first came up with this joke, and what industry was the joke originally about?
posted by Kevin A
on May 16, 2008 -
16 answers
I want to explain clearly and simply why a joke I was told is racist. Embarrasingly, all I can come up with right away is: If the joke needs to perpetuate racial stereotypes in order to be funny, then it's not funny.
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posted by reflecked
on Apr 29, 2008 -
66 answers
Is there a name for this style of joking? Set-up: Person A asks a question. Punchline: Person B -- by pretending to misunderstand the question -- gives an unexpected response. The Marx Bros used this style a lot, and I see it over and over on "Flight of the Conchords. " ALSO: Can anyone offer further examples of this? Thank you so much! :-)
posted by coizero
on Apr 19, 2008 -
15 answers
