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Obsolete jokes: the old people's thread
Is it cold in here?:
I remember some ethnic humor that isn't acceptable to most people today.
Wingy:
My high school went through a phase of polish jokes; I'm still puzzled about the genesis of that. It may have been the new pope or it may have been the guy with the polish family name that moved into the district or ... I never did pin it all down. That was followed by a period of "Little Willey" jokes/limericks that ran the hallways with the students. And then I graduated, leaving that level of humor behind only to fall into a group that distinguished itself by creating impossibly extended bad puns every change we got. Grant/Tim/Lynn, if you're reading, Time repeats itself. PM me here the proper response.
Laugh-In has aged surprisingly well, considering what passed as humor during that period. Some of that is more a statement about us USnians still being moh-rons about certain topics than it is a statement about the "poorer" (less progressive?) values of that earlier period when the Laugh-In writers were in business. Alas. Much of the physical comedy remains funny, even if the "sock it too me" segments got old in a hurry, and not just for the performers. I also don't get the person trying to ride the blue motorcycle with what appears to be a sendup of a batman outfit (sans cape but add wings, it's confusing). Oh well; you can find sections of various shows on youtube if you want to review personally.
jwhouk:
Verrrrry Innnteresting... but SHTUPID!
Is it cold in here?:
Weird thing is, "You Bet Your Life" was older, but what I remember of the humor has aged well. We showed an episode to a twenty-something who exclaimed (not verbatim) "Why is this better than anything that's on today?".
Akima:
--- Quote from: Sorflakne on 17 Feb 2022, 19:24 ---Circling back to Spiro Agnew,
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Spiralling back, surely? :P But I should beware of becoming one of the "nattering nabobs of negativism".
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