Thing I Hate Moment

Thing I Hate Moment

The Thing I Hate this time:
Buying text messaged jokes.

If you need to BUY a JOKE, I feel SO sorry for you. Seriously. Maybe you should look into being the butt of a real life joke, instead of spending $3.99 to get one via text message. And when it comes to telling jokes, authenticity, believability and TIMING mean everything. Just picture yourself trying to lighten the mood during a bad date, or trying to liven things up at your Family Reunion, or even trying to strike up a humorous anecdote at Publix with the cashier and bag boy (so you don't feel left out...those two always seem to be against you)....Are you picturing any one of these likely situations?? Okay, NOW imagine the look on their faces (your pissed-off date, your entire extended family, the cliquish tag team that IS the cashier and bag person) when you whip out your cell phone (!?!?!)...scroll through your text messages and deliver the mass produced joke YOU purchased...completely OUT of context...and irrelevant. The joke's on YOU, my friend. This is a TEEERRIBLE IDEA. Even MORE shame on you, if you're using text message jokes as legitimate stand-up material.

Thank you.

PS. I'll leave you with a joke from www.frengo.com, a provider of text messaged jokes...

"What did one elevator say to the other? I think I'm coming down with something!"

As Sarah Silverman would say, "What the c*ck is that sh*t?" Try using that one at Publix. See what happens.

In response to this knock-your-socks off joke, here are the user results from frengo:

A) This was hilarious (27 votes - 24%)
B) This sucked (87 votes - 76%)