Quote: George Kaplan @ May 21 2013, 12:55 PM BST
You bastard I don't smoke a pipe
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Quote: George Kaplan @ May 21 2013, 12:55 PM BST
It kind of loses the joke if we can tell it's a stock photo.
Quote: Tim Azure @ May 21 2013, 1:39 PM BSTI kind of loses the joke if we can tell it's a stock photo.
Looks like a pineapple to me.
But as if it would be a model with leaves so out of control.
That's just unreal surreal.
Be nice!
Quote: garyd @ May 21 2013, 1:46 PM BSTBe nice!
Sorry, just trying to help your comedy, I s'pose.
Quote: Tim Azure @ May 21 2013, 1:39 PM BSTIt kind of loses the joke if we can tell it's a stock photo.
Yes, but personally I can sleep better at night knowing that there's a picture library somewhere if I ever need a photo of a pineapple smoking a pipe at a moment's notice. But that's just me, I suppose.
sootyj
You bunch of funded heads you get juice from a pineapple not stock
None of you know anything about soup
Quote: sootyj @ May 21 2013, 3:48 PM BSTYou bunch of funded heads you get juice from a pineapple not stock
None of you know anything about soup
Just because you grew up on chicken soup!
I remember once hearing of a pseudo-measure about how long before internet comments end up referring to the Nazis. I think we should have a different system for here:
Number of posts:
2 - Opinion turns against person who has been relatively succesful at comedy writing
3 - Reasons are put forward for this success, none of which are 'person is good at writing comedy'
7 - View is cited that the reason poster hasn't acheived similar success is because 'those in charge' aren't looking for things that are funny
15 - Random nonsense
29 - A stock photo appears and ignites a caption contest
15 should be 8-28.
Quote: StephenM @ May 22 2013, 2:13 PM BSTI remember once hearing of a pseudo-measure about how long before internet comments end up referring to the Nazis. I think we should have a different system for here:
Number of posts:
2 - Opinion turns against person who has been relatively succesful at comedy writing
3 - Reasons are put forward for this success, none of which are 'person is good at writing comedy'
7 - View is cited that the reason poster hasn't acheived similar success is because 'those in charge' aren't looking for things that are funny
15 - Random nonsense
29 - A stock photo appears and ignites a caption contest
36 - Someone comes up with a pseudo-measure on how internet posts are organised.
Ho-hum, what a waste of words...
37 Pilchards.
StephenM: I think this is a good thread. People put forward their opinions, argued--like people do all the time. But nobody launched any personal attacks. What you call nonsense I see as a polite, intelligent way of diffusing any tension that may have built up because the topic became quite heated.
It smells like someone jizzed in to a bag of Fritos and then threw it at the Christmas tree' is funny.
My tip to all new sitcom writers is get rid of (nearly) all such lines - lines that get a 'laugh' out of context.
(Unless, of course, you're a famous stand up.)
A good rule is not to post in threads like this unless you want to come across as an arselick, a bitter wannabe or a sanctimonious killjoy...
>_<