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rionaleonhart) wrote2009-04-12 07:52 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2009-04-12 07:52 pm
Banana You Glad I Didn't Say Orange?
HERE ARE SOME AMAZING THINGS:
- I have just discovered a song about Derren Brown, played on the ukulele, on YouTube. Glee!
- Here is a wonderful Sherlock Holmes fanvid, set to 'Read My Mind' by the Killers. It makes me want to sit down and watch the whole of the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Oh, Jeremy Brett, you were the perfect Holmes. Look at him leaping around and waving his arms!
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x_los made an entry from which I learnt that the Fourth Doctor once, upon escaping from a yoke by thrusting it at the guards who had captured him, said, 'I suppose you could say "the yoke's on him", if you were the sort of person who said that sort of thing, which fortunately I'm not.'
I have never even watched the Fourth Doctor, and this reported line alone has brought him very close to being my favourite incarnation.
- Yesterday, my brothers had a terrible pun war. Terrible jokes are some of my favourite things in the world. The theme of the day, apparently, was 'monkeys'.
Here are some of the jokes that came up:
J: Why did the monkey go out in the sun? He wanted to get an orangu-TAN.
F: What do most monkeys become when they grow up? A CHIMP-ney sweep.
J: Why did the monkey get sent to Hogwarts?
F: To learn magic?
J: Because it was a Howler.
F: What animal in the jungle do you use to get into your house?
J: A monkey.
F: What currency do they use in the jungle?
J: Monkeys?
F: ...yes.
J: Why was six afraid of the monkey?
I did warn you that they were terrible.
The younger of my brothers, F, was extremely secretive about the punchline of one of his jokes, on account of its being 'too good' and his fear that it would be stolen; he whispered it to the others at the table, but refused to tell it to me. I eventually learnt it about an hour later, and I think the resulting uncontrollable laughter was largely due to the great air of mystery about it and the amount of time I had spent musing on what the punchline could possibly be.
The question:
What is a monkey's favourite cereal?
The answer (blacked out: highlight to read; for full effect, you should probably consider it for a while before actually highlighting):
I could not stop laughing. I'm laughing again just thinking about it.
Please feel free to share your favourite terrible jokes in the comments, monkey-themed or otherwise!
- I have just discovered a song about Derren Brown, played on the ukulele, on YouTube. Glee!
- Here is a wonderful Sherlock Holmes fanvid, set to 'Read My Mind' by the Killers. It makes me want to sit down and watch the whole of the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Oh, Jeremy Brett, you were the perfect Holmes. Look at him leaping around and waving his arms!
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x_los made an entry from which I learnt that the Fourth Doctor once, upon escaping from a yoke by thrusting it at the guards who had captured him, said, 'I suppose you could say "the yoke's on him", if you were the sort of person who said that sort of thing, which fortunately I'm not.'I have never even watched the Fourth Doctor, and this reported line alone has brought him very close to being my favourite incarnation.
- Yesterday, my brothers had a terrible pun war. Terrible jokes are some of my favourite things in the world. The theme of the day, apparently, was 'monkeys'.
Here are some of the jokes that came up:
J: Why did the monkey go out in the sun? He wanted to get an orangu-TAN.
F: What do most monkeys become when they grow up? A CHIMP-ney sweep.
J: Why did the monkey get sent to Hogwarts?
F: To learn magic?
J: Because it was a Howler.
F: What animal in the jungle do you use to get into your house?
J: A monkey.
F: What currency do they use in the jungle?
J: Monkeys?
F: ...yes.
J: Why was six afraid of the monkey?
I did warn you that they were terrible.
The younger of my brothers, F, was extremely secretive about the punchline of one of his jokes, on account of its being 'too good' and his fear that it would be stolen; he whispered it to the others at the table, but refused to tell it to me. I eventually learnt it about an hour later, and I think the resulting uncontrollable laughter was largely due to the great air of mystery about it and the amount of time I had spent musing on what the punchline could possibly be.
The question:
What is a monkey's favourite cereal?
The answer (blacked out: highlight to read; for full effect, you should probably consider it for a while before actually highlighting):
Rice monkeys.
I could not stop laughing. I'm laughing again just thinking about it.
Please feel free to share your favourite terrible jokes in the comments, monkey-themed or otherwise!
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Actually, I love any posts about any of your family. You seem to have an awesome family.
Anyway! Alas I have no lame jokes of my own, but my mother is chock full of them. My father and I have a great deal of fun with her when she begins making them. For example, there was the one time the head of lettuce in ou fridge froze, and my mother decided to call it iceburg lettuce. This still causes her to laugh.
Another instance that comes to mind is that she once said her popcorn was 'A-salt and Buttery.' (assault and battery.)
I love my mother, but her jokes are rather lame. Perhaps you can derive some joy from them.