Yesterday I was talking to someone who appreciates a sense of humor. And I am quite afraid I don't have a very strong sense of humor. Why is a humor a sense? I digress. So I tried to explain the humor I grew up with by saying the following. The jokes I most heard growing up were either Swedish or the type you find on a laffy taffy wrapper. Here are two of the most verbalized examples.
Joke 1: Ollie and Lena were sitting in a car (or maybe they were driving? I don't quite remember). Lena said to Ollie "Ollie my hands are cold and nobody loves me." Ollie looked at Lena and replied. "Sit on your hands. God loves you."
Joke 2: Every time we drove past a cemetery while on a road trip my dad would say "Hey those people are just dying to get in there."
Reading these jokes you can imagine how I work with sarcasm. My dad is great at telling jokes to 4 year olds. They love him. Sarcasmly gifted people, I think you all need to wear t-shirts. I love you. I'm growing. But I respond to you (as some of you already know) by saying "Really?" and a minute later I say "O you were kidding." Which some of you think is pretty funny. I'm sarcastically challenged I think.
Anyway, the girl I was talking with responded to my explanation of being humor challenged by saying I was cute. Which I thought was funny. :)
4 comments:
Ok ok ok... I am QUEEN of offending someone with my sarcasm - and through text, it comes out AWFUL! ha! But people with little sense of humor seem to get offended by me very easily.
Joke #1, I didn't quite understand - lack of humor on my part or just not getting it. Who knows.
Joke #2 I spit my coffee onto my screen - I'll send you the bill!!!
Too funny.
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I just looked at the capcha (whatever that's called) and saw that it spelled out *fuckyu*...
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Possible????
I'm OFFENDED!
I don't even want to type that out.
Hee hee. Yeah I dig sarcastic people I just need someone to explain things sometimes.
Joke 1 - I think my dad thinks it's funny because Lena wanted Ollie to hold her hand and tell her he loved her and he wouldn't and this is a somewhat swedish trait. To be of few words and matter of fact logic.
Woh. I have no idea what's up with capcha... I've never seen that before.
yes, why IS humor a sense? i have wondered that before...
and i suck at sarcasm too...either i offend people or they just look at me sideways like i've got something wrong upstairs...=)
Seriously. I don't get humor some times. I think it's totally true and go deadpan.
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