Kanger Co-op Cool Kids

[Zooker]

Seriously? Mary Poppins and her supercalafragalisticexpealidocious' are only for old timers?

I suppose you're gunna say the same for Bedknobs and Broomsticks! That was one of my vary favorites.
Well, I guess B&B was made 13 years before I was even born, but somehow it gained its way into my regular childhood video-watching repertoire.

My grandparents had a BIG COLOR TV (must've been 20" or larger) AND a VCR, so we were spoiled as kids. OH, OH, Oh, and how could I forget to mention, THEY HAD CABLE! I mention this only because that's how I got the MP and B&B infused childhood.

Our family got our first color TV like in 1991 as an X-Mas present from them. A Zenith! The VHS player would come several years down the road. So, on our birthdays, we would rent a VHS player to watch our specially chosen birthday videos. Usually Puff the Magic Dragon and Ernest Scared Stupid. Yes, on many, many occasions. Also Witches. I guess we had strange tastes, my brother and I.

LOL! Well, I'll have you know, my elementary school lunchbox was Bedknobs & Broomsticks, this is back when the boxes were made of metal. I also had the Mary Poppins record album (yes, album) which I played daily on my mother's console stereo. I knew all the songs by heart, but not so much now.

Bigbells, I'm sorry but I don't get it. I'm a dummy But I will have you know that I appreciate your joke We had both a two legged dog (yep, you read that correctly) and a three legged dog when I was a kid...well not both at the same time. The two legged one came first, followed later by the three legged dog. They were very funny dogs to have around, and sweetly tolerant of a certain hellacious little boy. (We did have real four legged dogs too...they weren't all defective )


I would have liked to see Mary Poppins and Bedknobs and Broomsticks in the theater, but I saw them on TV too. I'm not sure if they were tapes or broadcast, I just know I saw them at some point. One of my earliest film-at-the-theater memories is seeing Bambi. I didn't like the fire, and I was somehow prejudiced against the skunk. I'm sure it was supposed to be cute, but I wasn't buying it at the time. The best part was sitting in that big chair with the bag of popcorn....I still buy popcorn when I watch any film in the theater, it's a must-have, every time.

Ok, I might have peed a little at your dog tales (see what I did there!) but dayum, ya gotta admit that was funny stuff Stoney!! It's funny you mentioned Bambi, we were just talking about that movie at work today! I too was disturbed by the fire scene, I saw that movie at the drive in. My very first in-theater movie was Walt Disney's The Sword in the Stone. I was around kindergarten or first grade, I remember being so excited.

Love movie theater popcorn, it's the best. Do you all have Cinetopia theaters where you live? It costs more, but to me it's worth it to go enjoy a movie in a leather easy chair with leather ottoman, and seat-side service for food and drink...not to mention no yelling kids.

You can now make your smart phone smell like bacon when it receives a notification

I need that!

 

[Stoneface]

No, we don't have Cinetopia theaters....it's more the sardine-can approach (real estate is pricey). I'm not sure I would want seat-side service, I guess I'm old school. The leather lounge chair, on the other hand, sounds fantastic


Oh, and these days I would settle for anything that keeps people from using cell phones during the film....

 

[Katdarling]

Actually, I found an old email where I'd written this one out several years ago, so I don't have to rewrite it. Without further ado, a joke which few think is funny but which is my absolute favorite joke of all time:

THE GOLFING BUDDIES
A priest, a minister and a rabbi are old friends and play a round of golf together every Thursday from April through October. This past September, the third Thursday of the month was a particularly memorable round for the 3 friends. The weather was amazing, and the condition of the public course they went to was remarkable. To top it off, each of the golfers was playing better than he had ever played before. Headed to the 18th tee, the three had identical scores of 8 over par, and if any of them could birdie the par-4 18th, it would mean breaking 80. This was something that none of them had ever done.
As they prepared to hit their final tee shots, each feared that he would ruin the great round with a muffed drive, but all of them hit their best drives of the day, straight and far. With a combination of nervousness and happy anticipation, each of them then put their second shots on the green, within hoping distance of a birdie.
They looked at each other with hopeful smiles as they grabbed the handles of their handcarts to head to the green. Just after they started walking, a strange procession crossed the fairway about 50 yards in front of them. First, a 3-legged dog, followed closely by a raccoon, followed by a Siamese cat, then a pink flamingo bringing up the rear. The animals were clearly traveling together, maintaining a fixed distance between each. Within seconds the animal quartet disappeared into the woods at the edge of the fairway.
All 3 golfers witnessed this strange event, but not a word was said as they approached the green, pulled their putters from their bags, and assessed their putts.
The rabbi was away, by a couple of feet, so he would putt first. He stood over his ball, about to putt, when suddenly he straightened up and said: "You know what the meaning of that procession was, right?"
"Yes", said the priest. "It means.." but the continuation of his sentence was cut off by the minister, who, in between fits of laughter, said:

"Stop, Father! I can't take it! It's just too funny! Don't say it! I've heard this one before!"

Ahahahahahahhahahahahaahahhaahhahaahahhaahahaahha!!!!!!!!!

 

[440BB]

Waiting for that punchline is much like a Kanger co-op....

 

[flarg]

Hmmmm...I must be thinking too hard...or not hard enough...to try and understand the joke...or perhaps I don't have that great of religious understanding? Can I get a clue, please?
Fire truck fire truck, what color are those red fire trucks?
I wanna say...who?...

 

[Dunder Mifflin]

I'm glad I'm not the only one.

 

[bigbells]

I am of the opinion that everybody "gets" the joke, but few find any humor in it. Not finding it funny does not mean that you don't get it. When people don't see anything humorous in it they think they must have missed something, but they've missed nothing, except for a comprehension of why a small minority of twisted minds do find it funny.

My opinion comes from the fact that not in a single case have my best efforts to "explain" the joke resulted in anyone changing their verdict.

Have you ever heard someone tell a joke, but the joke teller is laughing so uncontrollably that he or she can't get the punchline out? It becomes funny (or infuriating) in and of itself that the teller is too overtaken by the humor to be capable of sharing it with you. The "Golfing Buddies" joke is a fairly elaborate variation on that same scenario, with the brilliant twist that it's someone from within the joke itself who prevents the punchline from being given. In effect, the punchline is: that there is no punchline.

Adding completely extraneous and irrelevant information about golfing and religion, which could be embellished ENDLESSLY should the teller of the joke be given the opportunity, gives more +++ points.

Then, the joke has the kind of final set-up where one would expect some corny but clever play on words to be the punchline. But no, the listener is denied even that small reward.

That's why the whole thing is brilliantly hilarious to me.

 

[Dunder Mifflin]

bigbells=beyond twisted

 

[440BB]

Methinks the joke is on us!

 

[Stoneface]

I read the joke over 20 times trying to piece together clues of the three legged dog, a raccoon, and a flamingo to solve a nonexistent riddle

 

[Katdarling]

I am of the opinion that everybody "gets" the joke, but few find any humor in it. Not finding it funny does not mean that you don't get it. When people don't see anything humorous in it they think they must have missed something, but they've missed nothing, except for a comprehension of why a small minority of twisted minds do find it funny.

My opinion comes from the fact that not in a single case have my best efforts to "explain" the joke resulted in anyone changing their verdict.

Have you ever heard someone tell a joke, but the joke teller is laughing so uncontrollably that he or she can't get the punchline out? It becomes funny (or infuriating) in and of itself that the teller is too overtaken by the humor to be capable of sharing it with you. The "Golfing Buddies" joke is a fairly elaborate variation on that same scenario, with the brilliant twist that it's someone from within the joke itself who prevents the punchline from being given. In effect, the punchline is: that there is no punchline.

Adding completely extraneous and irrelevant information about golfing and religion, which could be embellished ENDLESSLY should the teller of the joke be given the opportunity, gives more +++ points.

Then, the joke has the kind of final set-up where one would expect some corny but clever play on words to be the punchline. But no, the listener is denied even that small reward.

That's why the whole thing is brilliantly hilarious to me.

You've got bells, sweetie. I'll give ya that one.

 

[bigbells]

I read the joke over 20 times trying to piece together clues of the three legged dog, a raccoon, and a flamingo to solve a nonexistent riddle

You forgot the Siamese cat. No wonder you were stumped! About that cat: its 5th cousin twice removed belonged to a woman who once almost got a hole in one at the 8th hole on that very same golf course. Countless are the number of such red herrings that could have been included in the telling of the tale.

 

[Stoneface]

Somebody doesn't know nanners the way we know nanners

 

[Zooker]

Those are lazy nanners, I can tell they haven't danced a day in their lives.

 

[daventura]

What's going on in here?

 

[Stoneface]

What's going on in here?

Not much...it seems most of the Brigade has scattered....a few of us linger

 

[tiburonfirst]

so much for ever after!

 

[flarg]

I have so many hangnails it's outrageous! Quite distressing!

 

[Stoneface]

I have so many hangnails it's outrageous! Quite distressing!

Where does a 50 foot woman go for a mani-pedi?????

 

[tiburonfirst]

over yonder!