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Just tried to make a Stendhal joke at work. Oh boy did that fall flat.
— May 22, 2017 06:24AM
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May 22, 2017 06:43AM
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Joshua wrote: "Let's hear it!"A woman was saying that one of the advantages of wearing contact lenses is that you could change the color of your eyes, and she said "for instance if I wanted to I could come to work with one eye red and the other eye black" and I said "oh you want those Stendhal eyes" which I admit is probably more clever than funny, you know, but for coming up with right off the top of my head in the morning isn't too bad - but yeah crickets and wind... crickets and wind... Come to find out, not a single one of my coworkers had heard of either Stendhal or, more shockingly, Flaubert. Not a one.
A valiant effort - the more I think about the phrase "those Stendahl eyes" the more it grows on me.
Joshua wrote: "A valiant effort - the more I think about the phrase "those Stendahl eyes" the more it grows on me."There's something to it, I think - a country song in a more sophisticated world?
But you know what they say - if you have to explain why your joke is funny, it wasn't funny. Sigh
In a perfect world the embarrassment would be theirs, not yours.
ATJG wrote: "In a perfect world the embarrassment would be theirs, not yours."Yes! That's the right response!
Geoff wrote: "but for coming up with right off the top of my head in the morning isn't too bad"Yeah, you know Stendahl wrote Charterhouse of Parma in like 52 days too, not too bad either!
Joshua wrote: "Geoff wrote: "but for coming up with right off the top of my head in the morning isn't too bad"Yeah, you know Stendahl wrote Charterhouse of Parma in like 52 days too, not too bad either!"
Wow, didn't know that! Skillz
That's a good joke, Geoff. "Tough crowd, tough crowd," as some stand-up comedian used to say.
Jeff wrote: "That's a good joke, Geoff. "Tough crowd, tough crowd," as some stand-up comedian used to say."What's that Mitch Hedberg joke - "I like to close my eyes on stage because I've drawn a picture of an audience enjoying the show more on the back of my eyelids."
Or maybe a better one from Mitch - "you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show."
