The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Open Cans With
I'm in the mood lately where I keep laughing out loud at jokes I heard 3 years ago and suddenly remembered. It's a little stigmatizing, out in public. The title above is from a cartoon in the last issue of Utne Reader. There's a picture of a man staring very, very, very hard at a can in front of him. It's currently the thing most likely to cause a random burst of belly laughter. That's probably at least partly due to the gleeful shock value of finding it in Utne Reader, where cartoons tend to have a more political bent. Using Google, I was trying to find another joke that used to make me laugh uncontrollably -- it's some poem of the "Roses Are Red" variety. This is not what I was looking for, nor is it as good as what I was looking for, but it is... weird. (I actually remember the joke, but, although it is hilariously funny and to this day I can't tell it without cracking up, it's not very nice. But what is conscience on the Web?) Roses are red,
Violets are red.
Everything is red.
My eyes are bleeding.
Comments
That was Amy's poem, no?
Says Josh
7 Mar 2002 at 02:02 PM
I was never sure if she wrote it, or if she heard it somewhere else. She sent two contrasting versions. The other was:
Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
That's what they tell me
Because I'm blind.
Also funny, but not AS funny (that was my judgment -- to which she replied I was wrong). And nearly as tasteless, anyway.
Says Xy
7 Mar 2002 at 06:30 PM
...and now both versions are on the Internet for future generations to behold. :)
Says Xy
7 Mar 2002 at 06:31 PM
The one with "because I'm blind" appears in an early Far Side cartoon, I believe. He may not have been the first person to think of it (sometimes comic strips reuse jokes, it's true), but I'm pretty sure I saw it there.
Says tODD
7 Mar 2002 at 09:21 PM
These jokes are not funny
Says
30 May 2002 at 03:46 PM
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