What was funny then

ed · Post by ed » Sun Jul 28, 2019 11:37 am

not so much now. Sorta a spin off from Abduls Past is a foreign country only more specific.

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/x2AAAOxy ... -l1600.jpg

Don't get it.

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Sun Jul 28, 2019 11:45 am

the two guys in the middle are out of uniform; they forgot their belts.

ed · Post by ed » Sun Jul 28, 2019 12:02 pm

Does that qualify as a "Thigh Slapper"?

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Sun Jul 28, 2019 12:09 pm

He's bow-legged, get it?

ed · Post by ed » Sun Jul 28, 2019 12:19 pm

Because you become bow legged from riding horses.

Got it.

Funny. So funny that I'd buy a card with the joke so I could send it thru the mail (with my name on it so people would know that I think that it's funny) to someone that I know, thus announcing my idea of what funny is, and hoping that they'll laugh.

Seems reasonable.

ed · Post by ed » Sun Jul 28, 2019 12:20 pm

Abdul Alhazred wrote: ↑Sun Jul 28, 2019 12:17 pm CL00 4 ed.

Even in it' own time it was not funny, much like the later Sad Sack comics.

Or fucking stupid annoying M*A*S*H. :evil:

With that idiots Groucho impersonations which were positively painful.

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Sun Jul 28, 2019 12:32 pm

Anaxagoras wrote: ↑Sun Jul 28, 2019 12:09 pm He's bow-legged, get it?

That can't be it. Bow-leggedness is a disqualifying condition for the army. Navy maybe.

It's gotta be the missing belt.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Sun Jul 28, 2019 12:55 pm

Is it too soon for a Holocaust joke?

ed · Post by ed » Sun Jul 28, 2019 2:57 pm

Abdul Alhazred wrote: ↑Sun Jul 28, 2019 12:36 pm The book M*A*S*H (which ends with them going home at the end of their hitch) was a good bad book.
Not great literature by any means but a fun read.

The movie was a competent dramatization of the first half of the book, leaving the rest for the TV show.

As for the TV show, the one semi-funny schtick was Klinger, and that was snagged from Catch-22.

Which totally sucked even as a book and was made (if you can believe it) into an even suckier movie.

Unlike Heller, at least Norman Mailer wrote one good one before his long career as an overrated no good shit.

I've seen a number of series that, after having jumped the shark, "showcase" the real life "talents" of the cast members.

Alan Alda's "groucho" horror is one
Radar played drums in real life, I think they worked that in.
One of the characters in Laverne and Shirley ?? sang and they had him burst into song now and then. Horrible and wince-worthy.

I'm sure there are more vanity performance examples.

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Sun Jul 28, 2019 4:25 pm

Lenny and the Squigtones, you mean? They were awesome.

ed · Post by ed » Sun Jul 28, 2019 6:36 pm

Carmine Ragussa ... Italian I guess

Here you go, more humor from days gone by
http://www.vintageadds.co.uk/uploads/8/ ... 88.jpg?316

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Mon Jul 29, 2019 12:21 am

https://i.imgur.com/8wl7h9N.jpg

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Mon Jul 29, 2019 12:39 am

--J. "Did You Hear they Dropped a Bomb on Italy? It Slid Off!" D.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Mon Jul 29, 2019 11:49 am

ed wrote: ↑Sun Jul 28, 2019 6:36 pm Here you go, more humor from days gone by
http://www.vintageadds.co.uk/uploads/8/ ... 88.jpg?316

I finally figured that one out. Because her tits are "hanging over" the fence, right?

ed · Post by ed » Mon Jul 29, 2019 11:50 am

Guess so.

ed · Post by ed » Mon Jul 29, 2019 11:52 am

Here is one whose humor travels the decades
https://i0.wp.com/metro.co.uk/wp-conten ... C640&ssl=1

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Mon Jul 29, 2019 2:02 pm

Damn. Some "humor".

ed · Post by ed » Mon Jul 29, 2019 2:30 pm

You are simply culturally insensitive. Much like those islam-O-phobes who just don't get the humor in

http://conservative-headlines.org/wp-co ... oftops.jpg

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Jul 30, 2019 12:55 am

ed wrote: ↑Sun Jul 28, 2019 6:36 pm Here you go, more humor from days gone by
http://www.vintageadds.co.uk/uploads/8/ ... 88.jpg?316

A variant:

https://i.imgur.com/oYfMCpc.jpg

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Tue Jul 30, 2019 1:31 pm

https://i.redd.it/blaam9ntifd31.jpg

ed · Post by ed » Tue Jul 30, 2019 1:54 pm

Of course they knew.

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Tue Jul 30, 2019 6:36 pm

i don't get it

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Jul 30, 2019 10:27 pm

Anaxagoras wrote: ↑Tue Jul 30, 2019 1:31 pm https://i.redd.it/blaam9ntifd31.jpg

It's fake, of course:

https://i.imgur.com/YPeiSwP.jpg

Lots of old stuff get recycled that way, e. g.:

https://i.imgur.com/PG7U6ZT.jpg

OP will chime in if need be, but I understood the thread as an inquiry into the changes of what is deemed funny.

ed · Post by ed » Sat Aug 03, 2019 5:48 pm

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/6LIAAOSw ... -l1600.jpg

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sat Aug 03, 2019 11:04 pm

https://i.imgur.com/kUDDfGX.jpg

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Sun Aug 04, 2019 9:46 pm

https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads ... ics-16.jpg

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Sun Aug 04, 2019 9:46 pm

https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads ... ics-15.jpg

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sun Aug 04, 2019 11:39 pm

https://i.imgur.com/QvKG3YJ.jpg

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Mon Aug 05, 2019 7:52 am

That's hilarious!

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Aug 06, 2019 1:26 am

https://i.imgur.com/d7pRKPx.jpg

"The great pornography epidemic"

ed · Post by ed » Fri Jan 10, 2020 12:07 pm

There are some recent almost universal behaviors that are pretty much lost now. I recall seeing a list of abbreviations (like SWAK) used on letters during the wars, most of which are alien to the modern eye. I am sorta thinking that these postcards contain an in joke that only folks around in the 1909 era would get. I mean really "Arf a mo' Tirpitz"??????

There are at least 5 different postcards in this series, each featuring the same guy.
I found a site (now lost) that went into a long disquisition on the second card claiming it was a gay icon. I think that they had a theory and found something that they could shoehorn in.

Anyway, the amusement that I get from these is not, I suspect, what was intended back in the day.

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Fid · Post by **Fid** » Sat Jan 11, 2020 3:26 pm

Friend, he's a sailor or at least wearing said livery and as we all know (gay porn don't lie) all sailors are up for a bit of fun.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sat Jan 11, 2020 3:59 pm

https://i.imgur.com/YPRcZy7.jpg

Harambe · Post by **Harambe** » Sat Jan 11, 2020 5:21 pm

Smoking is going to stunt his growth

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:34 pm

https://i.imgur.com/Iz9jFal.jpg

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:59 pm

https://i.imgur.com/IjhEKLf.jpg

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 10:16 pm

https://i.imgur.com/WBqDoHP.jpg

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Mon Jan 27, 2020 9:25 pm

Just to make Abdul complain that it's still funny:

https://i.imgur.com/P3SM217.jpg

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Mon Jan 27, 2020 10:35 pm

Abdul Alhazred wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 10:08 pm It wasn't a complaint. :p

Hmmm… I think by now I understood how much you like to pick on a marginal point. :wink:

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sat Feb 08, 2020 4:27 pm

https://i.imgur.com/cXzgiUP.jpg