• erie09@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Or when you tell the joke and no one hears you. Then the next person repeats the joke and gets all the laughs

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    19 days ago

    Stop crying and just tell the joke anyways. Better to lose a good friend than to lose a good (but aged) nub.

    • zeet@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      I recently stood near with two distinguished professors of architecture who were talking about a colleague obsessed with replacing concrete with a material derived from a fungus.

      They were about to move on with their conversation.

      I rudely interrupted, apologised for my brain, and explained their colleague had a point, because concrete structures were less roomy than fungus ones…

      … because there’s not mushroom.

      They regarded me as one may look at a developmentally challenged toddler.

      No regrets here though.

  • qualia@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Just set up the joke one step earlier. Look for any new topics of conversation that can link you back to those balloons you’re collecting of gold. Its called doing a call-back, slick. chews his toothpick clentchily… staringly