BEDA Entry 21: Inside Jokes
Stapler removers are awesome because they remove staples and the likes. Sorry guys, I'm totally drawing a blank...with a pencil. (It's an inside joke.)
I wanted to talk about inside jokes today, so I thought I'd start you off with one my brother invented. I mean, what makes inside jokes so fun? They usually aren't even all that funny, yet we love to turn to them as a way of relating to a group of friends. It seems inside jokes and stories are fun because they make a person feel included.
At the same, inside jokes can also cause a person to feel totally excluded in a conversation. There have been countless times that I have been talking to an old friend and a newer friend has been stuck in the conversation in which the older friend and I go on about jokes the newer friend doesn't understand.
Anyway, I'm not going to analyze the power of the inside joke, because frankly, I am feeling way too tired. Sorry. My writing is probably excruciatingly horrendous today, too. Instead I shall share some inside jokes and quotes with you that you may or may not understand. Feel free to share some of yours too. Or share some that we share together?
1. "Elizabeth, I hate Dyer! Me and Dyer just aren't friends!"
2. "I want to go to the carnival now and get a fluff of cotton candy. Or a pile."
3. "There must be something in the water."
4. "Gosh! I need to stop using 'miracle'! I must lead a miraculous life or something with all these 'miracles'!"
5. "I'm surprised someone of your academic intelligence would have such typos. I mean if you don't even have to check if you made the Dean's list as long as you keep that 4.0."
6. "Oh it's your favorite number--99! No wonder it's your favorite number: 'I'm not perfect--just real close'"
7. "Yeah it's the TI-MP3! You can plug your headphones in it and go jogging and then it'll tell you the slope of the hill you're running up."
8. "It'll put hair on your chest." "What?!" "Oh...it's a phrase."
9. Mrs. Burman. Enough said.
10. "Your hot brother."
So, I'm not sure that this was as fun as I expected, but I am out of time. Now tell me some inside jokes!
I wanted to talk about inside jokes today, so I thought I'd start you off with one my brother invented. I mean, what makes inside jokes so fun? They usually aren't even all that funny, yet we love to turn to them as a way of relating to a group of friends. It seems inside jokes and stories are fun because they make a person feel included.
At the same, inside jokes can also cause a person to feel totally excluded in a conversation. There have been countless times that I have been talking to an old friend and a newer friend has been stuck in the conversation in which the older friend and I go on about jokes the newer friend doesn't understand.
Anyway, I'm not going to analyze the power of the inside joke, because frankly, I am feeling way too tired. Sorry. My writing is probably excruciatingly horrendous today, too. Instead I shall share some inside jokes and quotes with you that you may or may not understand. Feel free to share some of yours too. Or share some that we share together?
1. "Elizabeth, I hate Dyer! Me and Dyer just aren't friends!"
2. "I want to go to the carnival now and get a fluff of cotton candy. Or a pile."
3. "There must be something in the water."
4. "Gosh! I need to stop using 'miracle'! I must lead a miraculous life or something with all these 'miracles'!"
5. "I'm surprised someone of your academic intelligence would have such typos. I mean if you don't even have to check if you made the Dean's list as long as you keep that 4.0."
6. "Oh it's your favorite number--99! No wonder it's your favorite number: 'I'm not perfect--just real close'"
7. "Yeah it's the TI-MP3! You can plug your headphones in it and go jogging and then it'll tell you the slope of the hill you're running up."
8. "It'll put hair on your chest." "What?!" "Oh...it's a phrase."
9. Mrs. Burman. Enough said.
10. "Your hot brother."
So, I'm not sure that this was as fun as I expected, but I am out of time. Now tell me some inside jokes!