Lady Godiva taught me that.  Love that girl.
I notice that, in my corner of the world, people always pardon themselves after making a joke.  "Haw!  Your MOM!  Just kidding, just kidding, sorry."  As a Discordian of the more humor-inclined flavor, it seems like bad taste to ruin any feeble laugh you might have gotten. No good comedian (read: person) pardons thier gags.  Try letting it be for once, see if you get more laughs, nervous or otherwise.  Laughter is important these days, lest we become just another variety of greyface. 
"Ha ha, only serious" wants it's chair back.
Plllbbt.
Irony wins over straight statement in a LOT of humor.
And sometimes an excuse is just a reason clothed in politeness. :D
Quote from: Jenne on January 10, 2007, 09:25:02 PM
Plllbbt.
Irony wins over straight statement in a LOT of humor.
I'm talking about humor theory. What are you talking about?
I guess not the same thing.
What do you mean by the title, then?
Quote from: Felix Mackay on January 10, 2007, 09:21:30 PM
Try letting it be for once, see if you get more laughs, nervous or otherwise.
Nervous laughter is my favourite kind. (in others - I don't have nerves myself)
Ok, nevermind.
Make this my duh moment.  :lol:
So, if you tell a joke,  mean the joke, don't try to be forgiven for it.
I mean, "don't dilute your messages with polite insincere clutter".
Quote from: SillyCybin on January 10, 2007, 09:32:06 PM
Quote from: Felix Mackay on January 10, 2007, 09:21:30 PM
Try letting it be for once, see if you get more laughs, nervous or otherwise.
Nervous laughter is my favourite kind. (in others - I don't have nerves myself)
Go for it, I say. Make people nervous with what you have to say. Then, maybe they'll question why it makes them nervous.
Quote from: Felix Mackay on January 10, 2007, 09:32:38 PM
I mean, "don't dilute your messages with polite insincere clutter".
Even the non-humorous ones, then, too?
Vagueness =/= reaching me today
Quote from: Jenne on January 10, 2007, 09:33:51 PM
Quote from: Felix Mackay on January 10, 2007, 09:32:38 PM
I mean, "don't dilute your messages with polite insincere clutter".
Even the non-humorous ones, then, too?
Vagueness =/= reaching me today
If you say something - mean it. If you don't then don't say it.
(unless you feel like it)
Quote from: SillyCybin on January 10, 2007, 09:34:58 PM
Quote from: Jenne on January 10, 2007, 09:33:51 PM
Quote from: Felix Mackay on January 10, 2007, 09:32:38 PM
I mean, "don't dilute your messages with polite insincere clutter".
Even the non-humorous ones, then, too?
Vagueness =/= reaching me today
If you say something - mean it. If you don't then don't say it.
(unless you feel like it)
Well then my initial response still stands, then. Ha!
Not so. I mean, don't ruin fucking jokes by saying sorry.
Ok, then my original post DOESN'T stand against the OP, but does to Silly's statement (which is what I mistakenly thought the OP was about as well).
:lol: Poor Felix.
It's a great message.
Yay!
Wait, are you joking?
No. I'm laughing IRL at that question, but I like what you said, it's very true. I think we are so wrapped up in some warped sense of keeping "teh polite" alive that what needs to be laughed about gets cried and whined about instead.
Quote from: Jenne on January 10, 2007, 09:38:11 PM
Ok, then my original post DOESN'T stand against the OP, but does to Silly's statement (which is what I mistakenly thought the OP was about as well).
How can your initial post be against something I said after it? That's against the rules damnit!
Quote from: SillyCybin on January 10, 2007, 09:41:57 PM
Quote from: Jenne on January 10, 2007, 09:38:11 PM
Ok, then my original post DOESN'T stand against the OP, but does to Silly's statement (which is what I mistakenly thought the OP was about as well).
How can your initial post be against something I said after it? That's against the rules damnit!
Fuck your rules.  Here, use these ones.
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Quote from: Felix Mackay on January 10, 2007, 09:43:27 PM
Quote from: SillyCybin on January 10, 2007, 09:41:57 PM
Quote from: Jenne on January 10, 2007, 09:38:11 PM
Ok, then my original post DOESN'T stand against the OP, but does to Silly's statement (which is what I mistakenly thought the OP was about as well).
How can your initial post be against something I said after it? That's against the rules damnit!
Fuck your rules. Here, use these ones.
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Fine apart from 17. I couldn't bend myslef to obeying that one
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There.
I have an issue with "There."
Quote from: SillyCybin on January 10, 2007, 09:41:57 PM
Quote from: Jenne on January 10, 2007, 09:38:11 PM
Ok, then my original post DOESN'T stand against the OP, but does to Silly's statement (which is what I mistakenly thought the OP was about as well).
How can your initial post be against something I said after it? That's against the rules damnit!
If that's wrong, I don't wanna be RIGHT!
/lame comeback
sopilism, FTW?
You're wrong.  Everyone is SOMEwhere, and the first person can be said to be "here", and the third person is always there, unless local to the first person.
Chapter 2 - crime and punishment
1. Carries a £20 fine and banned for 3 months
2. Carries a public showering of raw bleach
3. Stoning
4. Operates on a 3 strikes and your jailed policy
5. is okay within the confines of your own home but not in public places or with juveniles present
6. 3 hail mary's and an hour father
7. Community service order - repairing the damage to public property caused by those who break rule 3
8. Exile on a small island in the south pacific
9. The victims family are allowed to stamp on your nuts/ovaries
10. Forced hard labour
11. Banned from ever owning an amphibian
12. death by bees
13. mandatory self flaggelation
14. Community service order to flaggelate people who break rule 13 then proceed to fake flaggelate
15. medical testing
16. perpetrators herd is confiscated
18. perpetrators hearing is removed
19. shouted at by people who habitually break 2, 10 & 12
20. verbal warning
See, now there's no "There"...
Quote from: Buddhist_Monk_Wannabe on January 10, 2007, 09:58:23 PM
sopilism, FTW?
:lol: I think it's sophistry...which, btw, is LMNO's pet peeve! :)
I saw the post where he used it towards Silly a couple of days ago.
Quote from: Jenne on January 10, 2007, 10:05:36 PM
See, now there's no "There"...
There's no There, eh? Sounds like crap mysticism to me.
Quote from: Jenne on January 10, 2007, 10:06:30 PM
Quote from: Buddhist_Monk_Wannabe on January 10, 2007, 09:58:23 PM
sopilism, FTW?
:lol: I think it's sophistry...which, btw, is LMNO's pet peeve! :)
I saw the post where he used it towards Silly a couple of days ago.
Solipsism!
Quote from: SillyCybin on January 10, 2007, 10:08:35 PM
Quote from: Jenne on January 10, 2007, 10:06:30 PM
Quote from: Buddhist_Monk_Wannabe on January 10, 2007, 09:58:23 PM
sopilism, FTW?
:lol: I think it's sophistry...which, btw, is LMNO's pet peeve! :)
I saw the post where he used it towards Silly a couple of days ago.
Solipsism!
Ah! Well, he used sophistry above...somewhere...in some thread up yonder.
I've heard solipsism used as well...I think in this subforum.
Anyhoo...
I wasn't sophistrizing, that was grammar logic.
Had this thought when I was watching Desperate Housewives a minute ago. I think it was random cos I was mulling this thread over in my head butI wouldn't rule out a connection.
Can you think of anything you've ever heartily belly laughed at that would shock the crap out of the people in this forum?
Hm.
THAT is a tough one.
Quote from: SillyCybin on January 10, 2007, 11:07:08 PM
Had this thought when I was watching Desperate Housewives a minute ago. I think it was random cos I was mulling this thread over in my head butI wouldn't rule out a connection.
Can you think of anything you've ever heartily belly laughed at that would shock the crap out of the people in this forum?
Nope.
Quote from: SillyCybin on January 10, 2007, 11:07:08 PM
Can you think of anything you've ever heartily belly laughed at that would shock the crap out of the people in this forum?
That
is the question, isn't it.
naw - shock aint a good tactic to use around here
demonic babies and deformed anuses and mass graves and images of dropped bombs has pretty much polished it off
its all old news at this point
the only thing that gets a reaction from me is new
new
new
new shit
combos that aint been seen yet
new regions
unexplored territory
You aren't reacting all that often, then, are ya, LHX.
im tryin Jenne
im tryin
these forums help
Ha. Staying power, eh?
One thing's for sure, the amount of sheer creativity, boredom, angst and asshattery around this place DOES produce quite an eyeful. Or two. So I guess your luck's in for the now...
forums are a great source of novelty
ON TOP OF being a source of support and encouragement and a learning tool
Edufrickincational bonanza, yo
Quote from: SillyCybin on January 10, 2007, 10:08:35 PM
Quote from: Jenne on January 10, 2007, 10:06:30 PM
Quote from: Buddhist_Monk_Wannabe on January 10, 2007, 09:58:23 PM
sopilism, FTW?
:lol:  I think it's sophistry...which, btw, is LMNO's pet peeve!  :)
I saw the post where he used it towards Silly a couple of days ago.
Solipsism!
Hold on, you two... you're
both right!
Actually, I don't really mind either, as long as it's done with self-concious knowledge. 'Specially sophistry. A clever argument can be entertaining as hell, even if they are talking out of their ass.
It's when people use either to actually try and argue a point seriously that I itch for a barstool.
Quote from: LMNO on January 11, 2007, 12:43:11 PM
Quote from: SillyCybin on January 10, 2007, 10:08:35 PM
Quote from: Jenne on January 10, 2007, 10:06:30 PM
Quote from: Buddhist_Monk_Wannabe on January 10, 2007, 09:58:23 PM
sopilism, FTW?
:lol:  I think it's sophistry...which, btw, is LMNO's pet peeve!  :)
I saw the post where he used it towards Silly a couple of days ago.
Solipsism!
Hold on, you two... you're both right!
Actually, I don't really mind either, as long as it's done with self-concious knowledge.  'Specially sophistry.  A clever argument can be entertaining as hell, even if they are talking out of their ass.
It's when people use either to actually try and argue a point seriously that I itch for a barstool.
I just like the neat way it makes perceived reality collapse. But I been on the receiving end of that barstool and tbh I kinda agreed with it. WTF is sophistry btw?
(I'd never admit that to yuo tho)
Non wikipedia answer: http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/sophistry
Wikipedia answer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophistry