Rodger Pettichord Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 Hi all. Just shared a great joke with a young person the other day, The response was a blank stare. Then I was told that mine was a "Grandpa joke" and therefore no longer funny. Now, hold on there, pardner! I can cope with a body that is in decline, a world that has gone nuts, and the idea that kale is a food. But damned if I can grasp the idea that funny isn't funny anymore! How are the rest of you Old Coots handling this absurdity? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 What was the joke? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc_Z Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 I've found that I only tell jokes to fellow oldsters, far fewer blank looks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingleaf Posted August 22, 2018 Share Posted August 22, 2018 Oh boy. How many Magpies can you get out of a Scotsman's Kilt? It depends on the length of it's perch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodger Pettichord Posted August 22, 2018 Author Share Posted August 22, 2018 Nick, it was a visual joke. Take your hand with fingers pointed downward and rest your fingertips on a tabletop. Then bounce the hand along a line across the surface. "What is this?" "It's a squid running the hurdles." Got a million of 'em. Can't understand why the kids are unappreciative. Come to think of it, nobody else likes my squid jokes either, but that's beside the point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted August 22, 2018 Share Posted August 22, 2018 I expect that raised a groan the first time it was told, ten thousand years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VH-KDK Posted August 22, 2018 Share Posted August 22, 2018 7 hours ago, flyingleaf said: Oh boy. How many Magpies can you get out of a Scotsman's Kilt? It depends on the length of it's perch. Talking of Scotsmen how can you tell what Clan one is? Lift up his kilt and if he has a quarter pounder he is a MacDonald! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VH-KDK Posted August 22, 2018 Share Posted August 22, 2018 Humour has changed so much now and I think for the worse. Maybe it is best us older folks share our old jokes just between each other! I only watch the old comedy shows as I am not in tune with the modern stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teecee Posted August 22, 2018 Share Posted August 22, 2018 I agree..I have not had a good belly laugh in years.. but then, I only like goon humour and such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassman Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 I enjoy making my daughters and other "youngsters" cringe...it's all in my Grandfather job specification!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiFlyer Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 There are many jokes that also rely on shared cultural context. If the context is not shared, the joke falls flat. There is an old and slightly tasteless one I remember "What type of wood doesn't float?" The answer "Natalie" elicited groans even back in the day, but to anyone under a certain age, the joke would have both zero meaning and zero humor, since they would be very, VERY unlikely to know who Natalie Wood was, or any of the other circumstances of the so-called joke. Hence: Grandpa joke. Try saying "Where's the beef?" to anyone under a certain age. (Pretty much everyone) And there will be zero shared memories, and no smile, except one for how weird old people are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodger Pettichord Posted August 23, 2018 Author Share Posted August 23, 2018 30 minutes ago, Bassman said: I enjoy making my daughters and other "youngsters" cringe...it's all in my Grandfather job specification!!! I'm rapidly falling into your camp. Love telling a joke to a youngster and then standing there with a straight face as they try to figure out how to keep from slapping me upside the head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aimee Sanjari Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 7 hours ago, HiFlyer said: Try saying "Where's the beef?" to anyone under a certain age. (Pretty much everyone) And there will be zero shared memories, and no smile, except one for how weird old people are. Not true - I laugh every single time. Best commercial ever! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzelle Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 Jokes work the other way round too - from youngster to oldie. This year's top 10 jokes from the Edinburgh festival (as voted by the public) were, in my opinion, not funny at all. I remember the days of Derek and Clive, the Pythons etc. Now they were funny (anyone remember learning about how to teach ravens to fly underwater?). Days when "Political Correctness" didn't exist, and everybody was offended, but we all laughed anyway. I am of very strong Irish descent and laughed out loud with everyone else at jokes such as: "Did you hear the one about the Irish hijacker? He asked for $20,000 and a parachute). Et al.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassman Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 "Where's the beef"?? Sorry I don't get because we probably do not have this commercial downunder?? Did you hear about the Irish pilot who crashed a Cessna 172 into an Irish cemetery? They have recovered 300 bodies so far!!!! Groan......; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzelle Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 1 hour ago, Fizzelle said: Jokes work the other way round too - from youngster to oldie. This year's top 10 jokes from the Edinburgh festival (as voted by the public) were, in my opinion, not funny at all. I remember the days of Derek and Clive, the Pythons etc. Now they were funny (anyone remember learning about how to teach ravens to fly underwater?). Days when "Political Correctness" didn't exist, and everybody was offended, but we all laughed anyway. I am of very strong Irish descent and laughed out loud with everyone else at jokes such as: "Did you hear the one about the Irishman who hijacked a submarine? He asked for $20,000 and a parachute). Et al.. Silly me, got the joke all wrong so now corrected! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 I like a joke but have always been useless a telling them, so I don't. I do feel that some of the humour now-a-days is quite cruel though. Mind you, thinking about it I suppose some of it always has been. I couldn't ever laugh at Laurel and Hardy with Stan always getting slapped around the head. Charley Chaplin made me cringe and more recently the way Basil Faulty slapped the waiter (what's 'is name) around didn't strike me as funny. I suppose I like the humour that comes about more naturally in situation comedies like Ronnie Corbett and his partner Ronnie Barker; Open All Hours and the 'Four Candles' being mistaken for 'Fork'andles' or vice versa. And stand up comedians make me laugh. Tommy Handley was one and Lennie Henry in more modern times. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingleaf Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 Great stuff guys n gals. "Are you being served" comes to mind. Mr. Humphries goes to captain Peacock and tells him he has a customer he can't understand. Captain Peacock tells Mr. Humphries this customer is Japanese and he has trouble rolling his tongue around his "R's" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teecee Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 Monty Python and the Goons for me,so I guess that makes me too old and wierd. Teecee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VH-KDK Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 16 hours ago, Bassman said: "Where's the beef"?? Sorry I don't get because we probably do not have this commercial downunder?? Did you hear about the Irish pilot who crashed a Cessna 172 into an Irish cemetery? They have recovered 300 bodies so far!!!! Groan......; No, I don't understand "Where's the beef!" However we did have "Where's the Cheese" down under. Did you hear about the Irish submarine that sank in Galway Bay? The crew all escaped from the sub but drowned when their parachutes failed to open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodger Pettichord Posted August 24, 2018 Author Share Posted August 24, 2018 Lord, forgive me. I have unleashed a monster! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 Good though innit?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Abernathy Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 You guys are cracking me up! Don't know why I waited so long to visit this section. Speaking of blank stares.......I was just at the coast for a week and camped by a bay in Crescent City, CA. I saw some seagulls flying across the bay and innocently remarked to my wife "look, those must be Baygulls". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiFlyer Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 Where's the beef!! This 80s commercial created a meme that exists to this day, at least here in America, where the phrase "Wheres the beef" shows up in anything from movies to political campaigns as a request for missing substance in a situation or argument. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adambar Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 I don't tell jokes anymore, I just more or less stay to myself these days and do things old people do, like soak my dentures and smell under my armpits to see if I need a shower or not. You know, stuff like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 Keep 'em coming. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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