Is this joke funny? If so, why? If not, why not?

In answer to your original question, an absurd joke needs to be really absurd before it is funny. A perfectionist getting pissed that he was off by a brick is just... real life.

Aaah, I see that you didn't read the next couple pages, did you, DrewDad. Read up to where gus posts his joke. Then let me know.

Eva, what the hell? Are you going to ask the other three questions, or what? And what's the answer to the first one?

I did.

There is a not-so-fine line between silly and lame.

I know, as I reside on the wrong side of it too often.

I don't care what you say. I will defend this joke to the death. Pistols at dawn, sir!!!

Can we make it pistils?

And dawn is so... cliche. How about low noon?

gotta say i vote for lame, too. yup, read the whole thing. not funny.

boring


ill draw my own pistils too

Now you've done it. Aroused Dag's, er..., mild annoyance.

Drawn pistils. How fun! Yaya would love it.

You gonna use that red crayon?

Right. Okay, DrewDad, you've heard this! Let's see how many of the others can figure these out now.


3. The Lion King is giving a party, and all the animals in the jungle will be there except one. Who won't go?


...and...


4. You have been given a task. You must cross a river that is infested with man-eating crocodiles. You have only the clothes on your back. There are no boats, no trees, no rocks, no ropes and no bridge. How can you get across alive?

You're wrong.

You're wrong too.

(Nice pistils though)

Ive been laughin for days. Youre shamelessly milking this thread like a Holstein .

The animal party thing, can the giraffe get out of the refriger? or is this some trick question?
The giraffes busy suffocting in a refrigerator, hell be dead by the party, nice goin Eva, you giraffe killer.

I'm not milking it, Farmerman. I feel a very close affinity with this joke. It's about the passing down of something beautiful from one generation to another, the gift of laughter.

i'm just trying to show my deeply intense feelings of devotion and love for this joke, and to give it to the people on this site, for whom I have developed strong feelings that can only be described as...dare I say it? Love...yes LOVE...and in giving this joke to all of you, whom I love, I am also paying tribute to the man who told it to me, the greatest man I have ever known, MY DEAD GRANDPA!

WAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!! <blubbering like a baby>

How's about that? Was that funny? If so, why? If not, why not?

Finally, you made me laugh...Thanks kicky, now I can get a good nights rest.

You got it, farmerman! Actually, the answer is just "the giraffe--he's in the refrigerator." But you're right, he'd probably be dead by then. Wait 'til I tell my son this. He'll love it!

Now, how about #4? Any guesses?

GET ME A CROCODILE SANDWICH AND MAKE IT SNAPPY!

A fella walks up his sidewalk carrying a farm animal. His wife, with a look of disgust, meets him at the door. The guy says "this is the pig I've been poking for the last 10 years". The wife says "that's no pig, it's a sheep. The man says "I wasn't talking to you".

(a little humor for farmerman)

Wrong answer, LordE. (Cute, though. )