You know the one. The dumb joke you chuckled at that now just comes out unbidden at random times.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    3 hours ago

    Whenever I am out and about I will eventually see someone doing something with a step-ladder. I walk up to them and say “Is that your step-ladder?”. They’ll look at me a little odd but answer yes. Then I ask them, “Did you ever know your real ladder?”. Then we usually both laugh/chuckle and I go about my day. Been doing it for years.

  • towerful@programming.dev
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    17 hours ago

    Why can you never have more that one egg?
    Cause one egg is Un œuf (enough)

    My favourite bilingual joke. It’s so silly, it’s so fantastic

    • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      3 hours ago

      That reminded me of another one. Someone says to someone else “You’re stupid and ugly!”. Their response, “I am not ugly!”.

  • sunsofold@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    17 hours ago

    Appa from Kim’s Convenience saying ‘No, you!’ to everything.

    ‘You’re deflecting.’

    ‘No! You are deflecting!’

  • DragonAce@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    22 hours ago

    -“Anyway, your immunity Is due to the fact that you lack the delta brain wave. It’s a genetic abnormality which resulted when you went back in time And performed certain actions which made you your own grandfather.”

    -“I did do the nasty in the past-y.”

  • stringere@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    23 hours ago

    “Oh no, not again” from the paragraph:

    "Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.

      • stringere@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        2 hours ago

        As someone else replied, it’s from the first book in a 5 book trilogy where the first book shares a name with the series: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, or HHGTTG for short.

        It is absolutely brilliant. The petunia paragraph is preceeded by this, for more go read/listen to the books.

        It is important to note that suddenly, and against all probability, a sperm whale had been called into existence, several miles above the surface of an alien planet. But since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity. This is what it thought as it fell: ‘Ahhh! Whoa! What’s happening? Who am I? Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life? What do I mean by ‘who am I’? Okay, okay, calm down, calm down, get a grip now. Ooh, this is an interesting sensation. What is it? It’s a sort of a tingling in my… well, I suppose I better start finding names for things. Let’s call it a… tail! Yeah! Tail! And hey, what’s this roaring sound, whooshing past what I’m suddenly gonna call my head? Wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do. Yeah, this is really exciting! I’m dizzy with anticipation! Or is it the wind? There’s an awful lot of that now, isn’t it? And what’s this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like ‘Ow’, ‘Ownge’, ‘Round’, ‘Ground’! That’s it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it’ll be friends with me? Hello Ground!’