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Randomthought

(1,058 posts)
Sun Mar 24, 2024, 01:50 AM Mar 2024

Is my sense of humor too weird

Or am I too old?
A Facebook friend posted a link to a story about an illegal dumping of a garden gnome.
I asked if Arlo Guthrie was going to write a song about it.
No one understood, I guess I have reached old and too weird.

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Is my sense of humor too weird (Original Post) Randomthought Mar 2024 OP
I guess we're both "too old" because I get it. nt LoisB Mar 2024 #1
The people on the Group W bench will help. Ptah Mar 2024 #2
Weird never gets old. SalamanderSleeps Mar 2024 #3
Here Here unweird Mar 2024 #5
"Mother rapers and father stabbers!" RussellCattle Mar 2024 #4
Oh no! lark Mar 2024 #16
Too Weird is an oxymoron, no? unweird Mar 2024 #6
This thread is useless without twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy photographs Brother Buzz Mar 2024 #7
Don't forget the arrows moniss Mar 2024 #11
No such thing as too old or too weird. Dem2theMax Mar 2024 #8
I think you seem to have achieved perfect balance Layzeebeaver Mar 2024 #9
I think the greatest thing about getting old moniss Mar 2024 #10
I'm old, too... GiqueCee Mar 2024 #12
I get it and it is MOMFUDSKI Mar 2024 #13
I get it and it is MOMFUDSKI Mar 2024 #14
Back while I was still working, Conjuay Mar 2024 #15
You should have said "Sarah Mclachlan"... (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Mar 2024 #17

Brother Buzz

(39,900 posts)
7. This thread is useless without twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy photographs
Sun Mar 24, 2024, 03:30 AM
Mar 2024

Still, you can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant, excepting Alice.

Layzeebeaver

(2,286 posts)
9. I think you seem to have achieved perfect balance
Sun Mar 24, 2024, 03:52 AM
Mar 2024

finding the absurd and pointing it out to folks who have no clue is one of my favourite things to do.

moniss

(9,056 posts)
10. I think the greatest thing about getting old
Sun Mar 24, 2024, 04:50 AM
Mar 2024

is approaching total strangers with a half crazed look in your eye and a bit of a smile and hitting them with an opening like "Hey, did anybody ever show you how we used to (insert the subject of your choice)?" The look on their face of apprehension approaching fear as you come closer and begin is priceless!!

GiqueCee

(4,259 posts)
12. I'm old, too...
Sun Mar 24, 2024, 07:39 AM
Mar 2024

... and maybe even weirder.
Lotta people don't know that all the characters in "Alice's Restaurant" were real folks. I used to live in Western Massachusetts near Stockbridge and had met Alice and Ray Brock, though I didn't know them well. I was just a friend of a friend, so to speak. I met Officer – later Chief – Obanheim once, socially, thank goodness. He wasn't an especially pleasant fellow, though he is said to have mellowed somewhat after going into business with Alice in her Tanglewood restaurant. Never did get to meet Arlo, though.
Fun reminder. Thanks.

Conjuay

(3,067 posts)
15. Back while I was still working,
Sun Mar 24, 2024, 10:05 AM
Mar 2024

We had a computer based assignment system.
Every hour and a half you would go to the computer and get reassigned.
Inevitably, some one would ask me,
"Wadcha get?"
AND I ALWAYS answered,
"I didn't git nothin,
I had to pay fifty dollars and pick up the garbage!"

They didn't move away from me on the bench-
They just stared.

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