Monday, November 3, 2008

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I don't think it's wrong to workshop a joke. If you are saving a one-liner for that special someone, why not try it once or twice on a less-critical audience? For instance, if you often talk to a little sister who's quite funny - and a judger - I'd say you are well within your rights to tell the Discerning Philistine that you just played with a teeny, baby, tiny, puppy beagle in a jacket who "crushed your entire heart". Your Discerning Philistine loves anything about dogs, he'll lap up whatever you toss him.
Your sister hates dogs though, and says she won't come over anymore if you get one. So you simply have to save the better joke for her. In her case, the puppy "peed all over your heart". And it's quite bad taste, if admirable honesty, for her to make you acknowledge the provenance of your work-shopped joke.

Note: Pictures of chimps aren't across-the-board funny, and too many of us rely on them. I'm referencing this one as an instance of a joke that ought to be work-shopped. For example, would a picture of a thoughtful cat be better? Perhaps a stock photo of a man? A child with a fishin' pole - but no fish???

-Lil' Breezy

3 comments:

Pouty Pants said...

really good title breeze.

also, i'm not as mean as you make me sound, i just don't like things that smell bad, and poop a lot while they are in the act of destroying your favorite possessions with their tiny teeth.

that was a run-on sentence, but the facts remain: dogs smell weird and poop a lot (and in nyccity you have to TOUCH the poop) and eat your stuff with their tiny teeth.

Breezy Palomino said...

You are right, dogs smell weird. And on wet days they make your whole house smell like them, but you can't detect the smell because you love them too much, and you are used to the smell, because you smell like it too.

Also I smell good, poop a normal amount, and have large teeth. So come on.

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