WHAT DO WE KNOW?
bono owes the name of his group to gary powers, who was indeed flying high.
sirhan-sirhan is not to be confused with duran duran. one's a group the other a dupe.
into the valley of death rode the 600 is not a nascar theme.
neville chamberlain did not play basketball (nor defense, as it turns out)
hoover in a dress was not a humorous vacuum cleaner commercial.
pickett's charge was not on a visa.
crossing the 48th parallel is not a reference to the matrix but it does have chinese characters.
all of these came to me after putting in the morman nailer joke, which i am sure would bomb in a comedy club nowadays. the pool of duh is very deep in many eyes that i look into from the stage.
what lead me on this train of thought was an article about mort sahl in the latest issue of vanity fair. here again, most people don't know who mort sahl is and most don't read vanity fair and that is a damn shame on both parts.
oh well, just playing with words instead of my dick....
sirhan-sirhan is not to be confused with duran duran. one's a group the other a dupe.
into the valley of death rode the 600 is not a nascar theme.
neville chamberlain did not play basketball (nor defense, as it turns out)
hoover in a dress was not a humorous vacuum cleaner commercial.
pickett's charge was not on a visa.
crossing the 48th parallel is not a reference to the matrix but it does have chinese characters.
all of these came to me after putting in the morman nailer joke, which i am sure would bomb in a comedy club nowadays. the pool of duh is very deep in many eyes that i look into from the stage.
what lead me on this train of thought was an article about mort sahl in the latest issue of vanity fair. here again, most people don't know who mort sahl is and most don't read vanity fair and that is a damn shame on both parts.
oh well, just playing with words instead of my dick....
posted by Ron Shock | 7:29 PM
2 Comments:
The same could be said of many of the jokes that Groucho Marx used to tell- full of witty puns and requiring at least a modicum of intelligence to appreciate.
a great modern joke writer is jack mayberry. most of his best ones he does very seldom just because people don't get them.
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