Wednesday, June 23, 2004
The funniest line delivered in the last three nights was delivered after Kevin Keefe, the Conservative candidate for the Halifax riding and also owner of the Granite Brewery, declared that he needed a pee break during the debate. An older gentleman said "Too much beer", looked around, and then just in case his friends in the audience didn't hear it, he repeated the line.
A similar thing happened yesterday when I was walking down Spring Garden Road. A speeding police car passed us by and a fellow pedestrian walking with his companion 'imitated' a police dispatcher "7-14 in progress. Officer short on donuts, I repeat, officer short on donuts!" The guy chuckled quite a bit at his comment.
Mike Judge in today's Onion summed up why those sorts of things are funny more eloquently than I ever could,
'In fact, part of the inspiration for both Beavis And Butt-Head and this other guy was from my first engineering job. There was this guy who was a draftsman who thought that any time he worked the number 69 into something, it was automatically funny. He talked like Cheech Marin. He'd say stuff like, "Well, 69 percent of the time" or "Six to nine times out of 10," and he thought it was funny every single time. To me, that's funny, not because I think 69 is funny, but because that guy thinks that every time he says "69," it constitutes a joke.'
Oh fuck! I just did the worst imaginable thing, I explained (or attempted to) why a joke is funny.
A similar thing happened yesterday when I was walking down Spring Garden Road. A speeding police car passed us by and a fellow pedestrian walking with his companion 'imitated' a police dispatcher "7-14 in progress. Officer short on donuts, I repeat, officer short on donuts!" The guy chuckled quite a bit at his comment.
Mike Judge in today's Onion summed up why those sorts of things are funny more eloquently than I ever could,
'In fact, part of the inspiration for both Beavis And Butt-Head and this other guy was from my first engineering job. There was this guy who was a draftsman who thought that any time he worked the number 69 into something, it was automatically funny. He talked like Cheech Marin. He'd say stuff like, "Well, 69 percent of the time" or "Six to nine times out of 10," and he thought it was funny every single time. To me, that's funny, not because I think 69 is funny, but because that guy thinks that every time he says "69," it constitutes a joke.'
Oh fuck! I just did the worst imaginable thing, I explained (or attempted to) why a joke is funny.
# posted by Die Brucke @ 10:10 PM 
