every joke has a victim

[ToeRag]

i'm very interested in complete bullshit masquerading as "received wisdom".

i thought i'd draw your attention to one such example that i've heard many times over the years, it's this:

"every joke has a victim".

i'm afraid that's complete fucking cobblers, as i will now demonstrate..

my favourite joke is:

"Q: what's orange and sounds like a parrot ? A: a carrot !"

i defy you to tell me that either..

1. the parrot is the victim.

2. the carrot is a victim.

see what i mean ? a milliseconds thought will reveal there are many such victimless jokes. ok, maybe all the jokes you tell (if you can actually remember any) do have a victim - if that's the case i suggest you are a very well adjusted member of a fucked up society..

 

[Archibald Nixon]

The world is a complicated and terrifying place, ToeRag.

 

[Riotgear]

I prefer to think in every victimization there's a joke.

We just have to be hopeless enough to see it.

 

[jack]

Mommy mommy can I play the piano?

No son, your hooks will scratch the keys.

BY JOVE I THINK HE'S RIGHT

 

[Archibald Nixon]

All humor is based on cruelty. ~Al Capp

That says a lot more about Al Capp that it does about humor. ~Walt Kelly

.

 

[Mirah]

Orange is the victim.

 

[Riotgear]

Orange is the victim.

If that were true you could rhyme it. Orange is the protagonist. Or at the very least an instigator.

 

[Kitty]

We are the victims for being subjugated to that awful joke.

 

[Riotgear]

I think toerag may ultimately be the victim for being under the impression that posting that joke was a good idea.

Can victim status be self imposed?

 

[Mirah]

There are no victims. Only volunteers.

 

[Riotgear]

There are no victims. Only volunteers.

The folks at battered women's shelters and Sheriff's DV units might take exception to that.

But I'm with you on a philosophical level.

Maybe we should ask Rhiana.

Too soon?

 

[Seph]

i dnt care bout the joke long as cupcakeerfox is the victim

horsefucker...

 

[Bickendan]

Every joke has a victim. I can prove this.

If the joke doesn't have a victim as a subject or a target, then the victim is the joke itself.

 

[Seph]

i still think we shud burn teh furfag.

 

[Loktar]

i still think we shud burn teh furfag.

Let's throw Trigger Fox on the bonfire as well.

 

[Seph]

thats exactly my point criple fuck, like theres a fucking echo bouncing off the rims of ur wheelchair.

 

[eloisel]

Define victim.

 

[Seph]

anges gynecologist

 

[eloisel]

Angearl's psychiatrist says, "Lay down on the couch and we'll do a psychological pap smear."

 

[Riotgear]

Define victim.

Oh boy...