[Comment] Re: Scrubs : My No Good Reason

She is in a coma and is unresponsative.

[BlogEntry] Speaking Of Opening Lines to Jokes

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/17/flamingo.stuck.ap/index.html?eref=rss_us#

First of all, when you see the headline "Jack Hannah, Flamingo Trapped In Airport Turnstile" don't you immediately expect (nay, hope) to see video? 🙂

Second, you have to love this line from the article, which sounds like the start of its own "Guy walks into a bar" joke:  "Hannah was returning from a zoo fundraiser with a mongoose, a small leopard, and a flamingo."

Sounds like that joke from Breakfast Club ("A naked blond walks into a bar, with a poodle under one arm, and a two foot salami under the other. She lays the poodle on the table. Bartender says, "I suppose you won't be needing a drink." The naked lady says…")

PS – Since I've been asked, there is technically no known answer to the joke. The actor has said that he was making it up as he went. The original scene was supposed to have him tell a joke where the punchline was "Forgot my pencil" (the line he says as he walks back into the library after crashing through the ceiling), but no one could think of a joke with that punchline.

There are sites dedicated to coming up with a punchline for the joke, though. My favorite is this one:

Naked lady says, "Why do you say that?"

Bartender says, "I was talking to the poodle."

[BlogEntry] Guy Walks Into A Bar

http://notorc.blogspot.com/2007/09/anatomy-of-humor-5-guy-walks-into-bar.html

Many many variations on the old start to a joke.  Many are stupid and forced, which disappointed me, although I did learn a couple of new ones.

They left out my favorite, though.

A mushroom walks into a bar and orders a drink.  Bartender says, "Get out of here, we don't serve mushrooms."

Mushroom says, "Aw come on, I'm a fungi!"

A friend's wife laughed at that joke, literally, for years.  She'd call up and leave messages on the answering machine with it.

[BlogEntry] How You Can Tell Someone Only Has One Child

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/digital_memories

Story from Yahoo News about crazy people who try to document every millisecond of their child's life by taking thousands of digital photos, never deleting one, buying new memory cards as needed (apparently that guy doesn't believe in backing up or printing), and generally documenting every time your child cries (put down the camera, pick up the baby), makes a mess (if there's not a website dedicated to baby poop yet, I'd be surprised), and basically missing the point that in your rush to save the memories, you are putting yourself behind the camera and…wait for it….out of the picture.

I guarantee that all of them have one child.  Could somebody please run the followup story in 5-10 years when these people have a second child and they have to eventually have this conversation:

"Daddy, how come there's an entire bookcase of albums of pictures of Billy, but for me all you have is that one you keep in your wallet?"