i took a chance on a joke last night and it utterly failed

[xfer]

Someone was talking about humiliating punishments for Saddam Hussein and I guessed that there must be a football team called the Crusaders and said something about them going to the Super Bowl and making him sit in the front row with a big foam Crusaders hand and cap on on national TV and everyone was dead silent.

That's my story of how I learned there are no pro football teams named the Crusaders. Either that, or that the joke was much worse than I thought.

 

[xfer]

finally Tom spoke up. "...Crusaders?"

 

[ChromeLife]

my high school football team was called the Crusaders...

 

[minxnim]

i think maybe it involves too many mental jumps or something for some people?

 

[lizard]

do people not understand their history?? My favorite crusade was the one led by Peter the Hermit.

 

[Baliset]

i didn't laugh reading it.

 

[minxnim]

i have a joke:

alex walks into a bar and says to the bartender, 'i have this really awesome joke' and the bartender says 'oh no....'


!!!
(j/k alex)

 

[deadair]

to answer your question alex... both.


...and yes, i understand my history...

 

[FuSoYa]

I laughed when I imagined Tom speaking up "...Crusaders?"

 

[lizard]

you mean, that wasn't the punchline??

 

[xfer]

well, they made fun of me for that all night. "Hey Alex, on Saturday night, the Patriots will be playing the SHELBYVILLE CRUSADERS!"

I also asked if the Rose Bowl was baseball, to tears of laughter. sigh.

 

[deadair]

...if only i could read your (old) sig

 

[FrostGiant]

Hey, did you know the Milwaukee Bucks just singed Brett Farve to be their catcher?

 

[azal]

my jokes fail for completely different reasons...

like when I told some hot girl that I was dressed as an AIDS patient for Halloween when she asked where my costume was.

<--- lady's man.

 

[azal]

also did you laugh out loud yourself?

that's the worst...

like once I did that..some girl was talking to me and I'm like
"sorry, I can't hear you over Rich's sweater..." (he was wearing something very orange and neonish)

and then I laughed really loudly, alone, and everone else was like...dude, that joke is so Three's Company.

 

[Astral Poetry]

It's much funnier when jokes fail than succeed. It gives off this really awkward feeling in which you can: A. Look like a dumbass, or B. Take off your pants to confuse everyone.

 

[steak-knife]

haha.