Yeah, and I will. Alot. Hmm, I am getting an idea!!!
A play with nothing but made up words!!!
or a play with funny sounding words.
' a dazzling dainty absquatulated with a diarrhea'
I have always thought that words with the "squ" combination are particularly funny (as littlek has confirmed with the choice of "absquatulate"). So words like "squalor," "sasquatch," and "squall" are all, by definition, funny. Say "squelch" a dozen times in a row and, by the end, you probably won't even recognize it as a word -- just as a humorous combination of sounds (the "ch" sound in "squelch" is also funny, just not as funny as "squ").
And "amuck" isn't funny: "amok" is funny.
Child of the Light wrote:Words also sound funnier if they sound like a curse word, or sound dirty.
"Comedy is not saying dirty words, but saying words that sound dirty, like muckluck."
Krusty the Clown
I like apparatchik, although that's an adaption from Russian... especially when the Scottish socialists I know put it amongst a hoarde of dialect words..
Re Lake Titicaca: Lake Titicaca drains into Lake Poopo. Really.
Do you remember the Monty Python bit about the world's funniest joke? So funny that you literally died laughing if you heard/read it. The British had it translated into German as a secret weapon in World War I. None of the translators were allowed to see more than one word at a time. One translator accidently saw two words at once and was hospitalized for a year.
"Turd" is funnier than excrement.
So's "fart".
at times yes. But if you say excrement really serious in a conversation, it is really funny.
So, funny is as funny does? The last few examples don't tweak my funny bone, but may be personally funny to the posters... Joe Nation's observations made sense generally.
Plus/but I think amuck is funnier than amok.
Equus, seems to me that the punchline to the bit should have been that the joke didn't work on the Germans. Not one bit. (Nothing against Germans, mind you...)
Do you thing British-German relations would be better if "Kraut" didn't sound so funny?
I think that 'excrementally' is way funnier than excrement, turd and fart, and perhaps even poo. Sauerkraut, Englishly sour kraut, that's funny too, especially in the context of a WWII joke.
I disagree. "Turd" is way funny. As is "curd." Overheard at the health food restaurant: "Waiter, there's a turd in my curd."
Oh, turd is indeed way funny, but how about "<blank> has grown excrementally..." pretty funny, I think....
You know what the funniest word in the English language is? Every third word in an Australian's conversation.
Oh, wait, that's not the English language...
