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liuzhou

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8 hours ago, TdeV said:

 

Could you please explain why this is funny? TIA.

 

I tend not to favour explaining jokes. Exegesis tends to destroy the humour. However, in this case I'd say the mutual incongruity of the two requirements in one person is the humour.

 

 

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On 7/20/2024 at 2:38 PM, TdeV said:

 

Could you please explain why this is funny? TIA.

 

I found this extremely funny, although my sense of humor tilts toward the Monty Python variety, so: 1) absurdly non-matching skill sets; 2) unlikely to ever be requested together; 3) opening clams might endanger one's fingers. What also made this funny was that both jobs can exist at the same establishment. It wouldn't as funny, imo, if the posting was for, say, assembly line worker and opera singer.

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"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."  -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act 1

 

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

"...in the mid-’90s when the internet was coming...there was a tendency to assume that when all the world’s knowledge comes online, everyone will flock to it. It turns out that if you give everyone access to the Library of Congress, what they do is watch videos on TikTok."  -Neil Stephenson, author, in The Atlantic

 

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer

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1 hour ago, Alex said:

 

I found this extremely funny, although my sense of humor tilts toward the Monty Python variety, so: 1) absurdly non-matching skill sets; 2) unlikely to ever be requested together; 3) opening clams might endanger one's fingers. What also made this funny was that both jobs can exist at the same establishment. It wouldn't as funny, imo, if the posting was for, say, assembly line worker and opera singer.

 

 

And that's why I prefer jokes unexplained.

 

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liuzhou

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9 minutes ago, Norm Matthews said:

I took a picture of these cooking directions quite a while ago. Sorry I don't remember what it was other than it came from an Asian Market.

 

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Totally normal here except when they read "Cook until cooked".

 

 

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...your dancing child with his Chinese suit.

 

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“Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too.” - William Cowper, The Task, Book Three

 

"Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition...The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.” - psychologist David Dunning

 

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This is real. I've been to both places. Sandwich is a town in SE England and Ham a village to its south. But an amusing and much photographed sign.

 

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I told you!

 

I warned you!

 

I made it clear that it was out to take over the world. And you scoffed and dismissed me! You continued to inflict misery upon me and, no doubt, unwittingly on yourselves, by maintaining the pernicious habit of infiltrating its image into these very forums in your preparations under the delusion that they are edible.

 

But after years of determined ferreting and stealth, I have unearthed irrefutable evidence of the ghastly evil intent of the pestilential weed from hell and its determination to take over by any means necessary.

 

It is attempting, unconvincingly I may add, to transmogrify into the stolen identity of a blameless and beloved vegetable, the onion. But don’t be misled! Be vigilant and stop the scourge!

 

The future of humanity depends on it.

 

Your honour, ladies and gentlemen of the jury – Exhibit A.

 

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According to Professor Google, this is the only time "lasagna" and "anomaly" have appeared together on a web page—and I couldn't think of a better example.

 

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Drug Smuggle Bid Thwarted By Lasagna Anomaly

 

The sordid story

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"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."  -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act 1

 

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

"...in the mid-’90s when the internet was coming...there was a tendency to assume that when all the world’s knowledge comes online, everyone will flock to it. It turns out that if you give everyone access to the Library of Congress, what they do is watch videos on TikTok."  -Neil Stephenson, author, in The Atlantic

 

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer

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Maison Rustique

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14 hours ago, Alex said:

According to Professor Google, this is the only time "lasagna" and "anomaly" have appeared together on a web page—and I couldn't think of a better example.

 

 

The sordid story

 

"It is unclear if the lasagna also contained tiny meatballs."

 

Ummm...OK. If there is one thing I know, it is how to recognize a meatball when I see one.

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