Okay. (Sigh.) I'll bite...
@bleujazz3, you've been a gentleman when we've interacted previously, and
@fcs101, I've always had the same impression 'bout you. So, I'm going to ask you guys to please
explain the post from
@bleujazz3 at 12:34am today (just above this post of mine).
To clarify: It's a Dad Joke thread and I normally get and appreciate all the jokes therein. But the post I'm referencing from
@bleujazz3 is, so far as I can tell,
not a joke in any conventional sense...certainly not a "Dad Joke" according to the conventions of Dad Jokes.
It isn't even the first post from you,
@bleujazz3, that's left me bewildered in this fashion. Previously I've kinda passed over them because I didn't want to seem rude (or a big dummy) by asking, "Hey, what's the deal with this?" I'm certainly don't want to be misunderstood as
criticizing what I don't understand. And I appreciate that, for the joke-teller, it always feels tiresome to explain a joke, and the effort makes it less-funny for those who
do get it. So normally I don't ask.
I also know I'm a literal-minded person, and just not wired for certain kinds of humor. (People are forever asking me rhetorical questions which I then reflexively answer in great detail.)
But now I see that
@fcs101 gave the post a thumb's-up, and I'm thinking, "Okay,
someone else gets why this is funny, and I'd like to be let in on the joke."
(Yes, I get I'm spending too much thought on this already, but what the heck; I've just been laid-off with no warning, along with nearly all the coworkers I'd been working with for the last decade. AI and Offshore Contractors are the Wave Of The Future, it seems. Other than figure out healthcare options and futz with my résumé, what in the heck
else am I going to do with my time at the moment?)
The only "operating theory" I have is that the joke is a meta-joke, in the sense that it doesn't have any punchline apart from the fact that it has no punchline, and is funny precisely for the excellently-crafted irrelevance of each and every line, the skill with which any semblance of a connecting theme is avoided, so that, unlike a typical joke, there is literally no "Aha!" that the mind can grasp at the moment of "getting" the joke. Maybe
that realization is supposed to be the "Aha" that constitutes the punchline?
But I don't know with any
confidence that that's what's going on.
All I know is
@bleujazz3 posted it and
@fcs101 gave it a thumb's-up.
So, hey, fellows: Do a brother a solid, willya, and let me know what the deal is? It'll be one less way to feel like a chump this month.