Tack on a "...and I'm not so sure about the relatives anymore!" and you bought another week of chuckles, Chuckles.

Sounds like half the shows on TV.

Look, old people do this. Anybody with a grandparent or coworker older than 50 should know what I'm talking about.

Somewhere, somebody went through five years of John McCain's public speaking to find multiple instances of the same joke so some people can mildly chuckle and then forget about the utterly irrelevant conclusion.

Unlike professional comedians who have a completely new set every show.

The next time McCain tells that joke, he should throw in some jazz hands. That sure would add some freshness to the joke.

I've always believed that dreams are like our children...

Maybe somebody will laugh the 28th time.

You know, this sounds like about half the shows on television nowadays.

Rann Xerox: he should throw in some jazz hands.

I'm not sure arm and hand range of motion is in his wheelhouse.

Did he say he was running fer POTUS again?

Cos that one wasn't even funny the first time.

/DNRTFA.

He probably got this from watching Matlock all the time. That or probably have the other shows on TV.

/slow day at work

McCain's not known for his joke telling ability

I work with people like that. You know exactly what they're going to say every time you meet them and every joke they're going to use in every situation. Besides that, if they trap you in your office or in the hall, they will start telling you every thought they've ever had about anything, and long stories and detailed recapitulations about what tv show or sports game they watched last night.

I try to duck down an aisle when I see them coming. Fortunately there seem to be a bunch of them who all find one another unspeakably fascinating so once they get into their little clique I can go off and actually work. Or read Fark.

"....an atheist,the Pope,a liberal and two lesbians walk into a bar....."

Somewhere, somebody went through five years of John McCain's public speaking to find multiple instances of the same joke so some people can mildly chuckle and then forget about the utterly irrelevant conclusion.

Arkanaut: Look, old people do this. Anybody with a grandparent or coworker older than 50 should know what I'm talking about.

Oh, that stings...

(Not saying why I know this.)

You know why John Kerry works at Waffle House? Because he waffles so much.

- My father-in-law, the first time he met me. Wokka-wokka!

I don't stop old people when they tell stories repeatedly, I can get some other thinking done while nodding and smiling in the right places.

was this the joke?



/dnrtfa

Site blocked at work. Will somebody tell it for the 28th time?

Politicians repeat prepared speeches at a variety of events, News at 11

My grampa used to be in burlesque (the real one, not today's crappy substitute) and toward the end he started repeating the same jokes over and over. Now, there's a famous joke with two endings that goes like this:

A guy accompanies his friend to a joke tellers convention. They walk into a huge room filled with joke tellers. One of them shouts out "53!" and everyone laughs. Then someone shouts "102!" and everyone laughs. The guy whispers to his friend "What's going on?" and the friend answers "These are all professional joke tellers. They know the jokes so well they've numbered them, so instead of telling the joke they just call out its number."

ENDING NO. 1:

So the guy decides to try it himself. He shouts out "97!" and there's dead silence. He asks his friend "How come nobody laughed?" and the friend answers "It was your delivery."

ENDING NO. 2:

Somebody shouts out "241!" and everyone laughs. After a while there's silence except for one guy who goes on laughing uproariously. The guy whispers to his friend "How come he's still laughing?" and the friend answers "He must not have heard that one before."

Grampa would tell the same jokes over and over and after the umpteenth repetition we said to him "Grampa, you've told that one before." He said "Sorry. If I start to tell a joke you've heard, just call out '53!' and I'll know to stop." So when he'd start in with the same joke (he had one that ended "See! Blue booties!") we'd say "No. 53, grampa" and he'd say "Oh, sorry."

My kids never met their great-grandfather but I told them that story, right after I told them that joke. A couple of months later I was telling them a joke and they said "No. 53, dad..."

Buzz Killington: Stewie, do you know why W. S. Gilbert was frequently drunk on his transatlantic crossings?

Stewie: No...

Buzz Killington: Because he was quartered on the port-side! Now that I've got you, let's both revisit the birth of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.

We're calling that joke moderately funny? Jesus H, WTF would a bad joke sound like?

Glen: How many Polacks it take to screw up a lightbulb?

H.I.: I don't know, Glen. One?

Glen: Nope, it takes three.

thurstonxhowell: We're calling that joke moderately funny? Jesus H, WTF would a bad joke sound like?

Q: How many boring people does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

A: One.

Dated a girl like that once. For some reason I was utterly smitten with her.

Ya know. If these politicians can't write their own speeches, then they don't deserve office. The more stories I read like this, the more politicians seem like actors to me. And IMHO the whole show sucks.

How am I not myself?

Eh, it's amusing and he's old. It's not that bad.

Soon Right Away: How am I not myself?

I don't know. Did you take someone else's underwear by mistake?

You know McCain's going to tell that joke again, so it's just like being raped - you might as well sit back and enjoy it.

It's not a joke...it's a catch-phrase...

/legen...
//wait for it
/// DARY!

Give him a break. He hasn't been able to tell his "lipstick on a pig" joke for years.

Maturin: Site blocked at work. Will somebody tell it for the 28th time?

"When Congress' approval rating gets this low, you get down to blood relatives and paid staffers."

As in, those are the only people who approve of Congress.

About the same length of time he's been a joke.

OUTRAGE!!!1!!

sprawl15: Somewhere, somebody went through five years of John McCain's public speaking to find multiple instances of the same joke so some people can mildly chuckle and then forget about the utterly irrelevant conclusion.

Yes

Mugato: Hetfield: irrelevant conclusion

So the conclusion and McCain himself have something in common.

/and what's the deal with airline food?

I don't get it.

Maturin: Site blocked at work. Will somebody tell it for the 28th time?

I'd like to, but I think I'd get banned if I quoted it directly, especially for the part of the joke involving Sarah Palin giving Trig a golden shower while Todd rides a snowmobile around them, naked, with lit sparklers in his ass. But I can at least tell you the punchline. It's, "The Aristocrats!"

When you get to be my age, you can only get down with blood relatives and paid staffers.

Freshened that up for him.