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Suggest HN: No April Fools this year

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Re: Suggest HN: No April Fools this year

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Post by mstade »

mav3rick wrote: post #36
mstade wrote: post #16

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Happy birthday buddy! Here's a joke for you: > Two elephants were skydiving > and suddenly one gets a > Cinnabon bun in the eye. I have to admit this doesn't seem very funny at all, but someone told me this and I couldn't stop laughing. Then again, I was twelve at the time. :o) Hope you have a great birthday, despite the times!

I don't get it ?

Haha man neither do I, but it still cracks me up. I think maybe I'm laughing at my twelve year old self laughing at a joke I didn't understand then either, but still laughed till I cried.

It may well just have been a friend saying random nonsense, I have no idea.

Re: Suggest HN: No April Fools this year

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Post by mstade »

royletron wrote: post #78
mstade wrote: post #16

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Happy birthday buddy! Here's a joke for you: > Two elephants were skydiving > and suddenly one gets a > Cinnabon bun in the eye. I have to admit this doesn't seem very funny at all, but someone told me this and I couldn't stop laughing. Then again, I was twelve at the time. :o) Hope you have a great birthday, despite the times!

I really don't get it.... My three favourite jokes from when I was twelve * What is E.T. short for? Because he has little legs * How do you titilate and ocelot? Oscillate it's tit a lot. * What is Batman's favourite food? Toast - still don't get why that is funny but even now I laugh. Thanks for reaching out!

Haha I don't get it either. I also have no idea why but the Batman one cracked me up as well. Maybe I'm wired wrong.. :o)

Thanks for the laugh!

Re: Suggest HN: No April Fools this year

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Post by collyw »

spery wrote: post #26
schappim wrote: post #13

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Yeah it is an instant recipe for being downvoted. :-(

As it should. Empty comments posted for the giggles of author (and maybe a few others) would just add too much spam. Look at what reddit grew into, you have templates of comments and meta comments everywhere, very low quality content.

I like humor, it's just especially rare to see it here. We put up with plenty of other stuff that I consider spam but is clearly of interest to others here.

Re: Suggest HN: No April Fools this year

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Post by threatofrain »

paulgb wrote: post #48
kd5bjo wrote: post #40

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The traditional april fool’s joke (on the internet) is fundamentally satire, which is notoriously hard to do well. It needs to be something plausible enough to get people to start reading, but be absurd enough that people know it’s not real by the end without being told.

It's especially hard to do well when it's forced through the filter of a PR team. It's not humor for humor's sake, it's humor to improve a brand. I don't think this is impossible to do well, just very rarely done in practice.

Like Geico.

Re: Suggest HN: No April Fools this year

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Post by threatofrain »

knorker wrote: post #20

Kind of agree. No, fuck people who can't handle jokes, but April fool's is rarely jokes. They're just deliberate humiliations. Iow: don't do jokes where the punchline is "look how fucking stupid you are for believing what I said", which is most April fool's jokes.

Isn’t all of The Onion and what Colbert used to be about? In fact, isn’t that all satire — bitingly critical mockery?

Re: Suggest HN: No April Fools this year

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Post by artsyca »

gherkinnn wrote: post #70
artsyca wrote: post #11

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A lot of the clichés we use don't apply any more pencil pusher is one of them

And yet you understood what I meant.

I'm not sure I did -- a pencil pusher is an accountant and they don't even push pencils any more
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