Knowing about it doesn't really suppress the compulsion to criticize, though. Actually, one's probably even more likely to criticize when one sees just how absurd the whole thing can be at times.
The confusing thing for me is that I misread @TheNuvolari's post about the Government.
I thought he meant "shoot" as in "shooting". After reading that sentence three times, I got this. 💡
I believe he meant "anything". Correct?
Don't bother trying to help me. It's nice of you and appreciated but I'm too tired at the moment. My brain is failing me,
Whoa, hold up. We have an ichthyologist over here.
Exactly my point.
Drunk?Why is this so funny lol. I crying laughing in public right now
Not drunk, just had a long exhausting afternoon and finally felt relaxed waiting for my food at Dominoes. Almost in a sleepy feeling state where everything makes you giggle a little. And no, I'm not high. LOL. I've never touched marijuana. (That's something else that annoys me.)Drunk?
It's said that to explain a joke is to kill it, but I like to think that's more the case when explaining why a joke was supposed to be funny rather than why one might have been found funny. I'll go ahead and stick it in a spoiler box regardless.
I'd imagine the joke works because some words, particularly those with certain consonant clusters such as "ich" and "ist", can be associated with the sound someone makes when sneezing, making them appropriate onomatopoetic representations of that sound. Of course longer words with such clusters are a little more absurd when thought of as a sneeze, because the sound we make when sneezing very rarely has more than two syllables, and absurdity also lends itself to humor.
Then, instead of merely saying "that sounded like a sneeze", responding with a common sympathetic response to a sneeze and the offering (even in virtual form) of a facial tissue lets the audience arrive to the joke instead of being told outright.
Did I kill it?
