tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post2538620151177691369..comments2024-03-18T10:29:46.055+00:00Comments on Ken Armstrong Writing Stuff: When all the Jokes were NewKen Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07775956557261111127noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-7750583913852951032012-06-24T16:25:49.090+01:002012-06-24T16:25:49.090+01:00Lovely blog! I'm jealous of your "unassa...Lovely blog! I'm jealous of your "unassailable recall."<br /><br />I can usually remember only half of a joke - and it's the wrong half.<br /><br />But I retell the two I *do* know - the Messerschmidt joke and the one about the long-nosed, long-tailed lurcher. :-)Janh1http://janh1.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-1350201553953273492012-06-22T11:59:49.152+01:002012-06-22T11:59:49.152+01:00Laura: Chuck Norris was even 'Hard' back i...Laura: Chuck Norris was even 'Hard' back in my day. 'Way of the Dragon' with Bruce Lee...<br /><br />Hope: My Dad told me the viagra joke (Can I get it over the counter? If you can, you don't need any) and it's still a favourite, probably because of that.<br /><br />Jim I remember that story. I believe it was Asimov. He also wrote one called something like 'Shagydo G' which was basically just a 'Shaggy Dog Story' like the Myopic Viking one.<br /><br />ND: I found myself getting quite annoyed recently that people were sharing a World Cup joke as if it was new for the Euro Cup. I gave myself a good talking-to though. :)Ken Armstronghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07775956557261111127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-17998681073291312382012-06-18T18:36:43.142+01:002012-06-18T18:36:43.142+01:00I can never seem to remember jokes unlike you Ken,...I can never seem to remember jokes unlike you Ken, but as I read this it brought back memories-feeling untouchable at around the same age you mention. The jokes and the pranks are all part of that-you're so right that they have probably been played on down through the ages. Working as a teacher, I kind of resent it when kids "discover" a way of joking that I've seen before. It grates and maybe that's because of what you talk about-the sense of repetition...ND Mitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16510971525209549921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-8088802447384687302012-06-18T12:53:56.993+01:002012-06-18T12:53:56.993+01:00Where do jokes comes from? I have always considere...Where do jokes comes from? I have always considered this a mystery. I know on <i>The Simpsons</i> there’s supposed to be an island somewhere where all the dirty jokes get written but I don’t believe it. I have never written a joke in my life. I have never known anyone who has ever written a joke. They just appear. Mysteriously. I think it’s all a conspiracy. There was a science fiction story that ended with all the jokes stopping being funny. I liked that that humour, like time was something that could be manipulated. The thing is I have a GSOH. You’ve read my books so you know I can do humour but I’ve never been one for telling jokes with punch lines. I survived on two for years, the one about farts I reference in <i>Living with the Truth</i> (one of the many either-you’ll-get-it-or-you-won’t-get-it references) and the ‘Gnome (pronounced gu-no-meh) Joke) which if we ever meet in person remind me to tell you. In fact I’ll tell you the two of them if you like. I told my daughter a joke at the weekend that I heard on the TV:<br /><br />“My dog has no dictionary.”<br />“How does he spell ‘terrible’?”<br /><br />She didn’t get it. I thought it was hysterical. <br /><br />If I was to try and nail down my own private Golden Age of Jokes it would probably be within the four years I was at secondary school. That was the time of the famine in Biafra and there were hundreds of the most tasteless jokes floating about but it was also then that Billy Connolly started his rise and I remember his LPs being passed round the playground. Monty Python was also at their peak then so humour was a big part of our lives probably as a reaction to the state of the country not that I can say I really noticed how bleak things were then.<br /><br />Before I die I would like to write a joke. I know that there are joke writers out there but every time I have sat down to write one I’ve gone completely blank. I’d like to write one that ends up mangling a well known expression like:<br /><br />A very myopic Viking was having a new house built. The day when it was due to be finished the plumber came to the site manager and told him that the kitchen sink hadn't been delivered. <br />"Find something else to use" he said.<br />The plumber found a bricklayer's hod and fixed it in place.<br />Everyone was nervous when the Viking arrived to checkout his new house. When he went into the kitchen he groped around, turned on the water and washed his hands and announced that he was very satisfied.<br /><br />This goes to show that a hod is as good as a sink to a blind Norse.<br /><br />(I couldn’t actually remember the joke but the punch line stuck with me.)<br /><br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-40596349007447275622012-06-17T18:44:11.370+01:002012-06-17T18:44:11.370+01:00I link the art of joke telling to Dad, who shared ...I link the art of joke telling to Dad, who shared lots of groaners as I recall.<br /><br />Dad would often catch himself at the dinner table, on the cusp of a joke before saying, "Uh no. You're not old enough for that."<br /><br />My proudest day was the day he told "one of those" jokes, but left off the age disclaimer. Finally, I was old enough to be a person, not a kid. ;)hopehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03306622656461205674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-48777714010204353292012-06-17T14:55:13.226+01:002012-06-17T14:55:13.226+01:00I don't remember my own Golden Era of jokes, b...I don't remember my own Golden Era of jokes, but I can tell you that my 11-year old son seems to be going through some kind of phase at the moment where he works VERY hard at the whole joke thing. He is especially obsessed with toilet humour and the current round of Chuck Norris jokes, some of which I have to agree are hysterical .. <br /><br />http://chucknorrisjokes.linkpress.info/top-100.phpLaura Cousinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18156390166547567951noreply@blogger.com