{"id":4250,"date":"2005-06-27T15:58:04","date_gmt":"2005-06-27T19:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/httpblogslawharvardeduceerock4\/2005\/06\/27\/how-to-ruin-my"},"modified":"2005-06-27T15:58:04","modified_gmt":"2005-06-27T19:58:04","slug":"how-to-ruin-my-jokes-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/2005\/06\/27\/how-to-ruin-my-jokes-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Ruin My Jokes, Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a3518'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have twice before lamented the ways in which my jokes have been ruined by others. First there was the lament over people <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/2004\/04\/19#a605\">not getting your jokes and thinking you&#8217;re the one who&#8217;s stupid<\/A>. Then there was the problem of people not hearing your jokes and the inappropriateness of repeating them (can&#8217;t find it in my archives to link). Here, in part 3, we shall discuss situations where a person hears your joke, thinks it&#8217;s funny, and tries to add something to top it off, but the top-off is so lame it sinks, taking your original funny joke down with it. It happened twice last week at Silverdocs, but rather than incriminate any friends I will instead share a memorable example from a couple of years ago when I was on a tea date with my ARCH ENEMY.<BR><BR>My ARCH ENEMY is a funny guy of the stand-up comedian variety. A showman. I didn&#8217;t know him very well and this was only our second time hanging out and I was smitten and giggly. He was standing at the counter at Tealuxe and ordered our tea, and as I pulled out my wallet he said &#8220;I got your tea.&#8221; I smiled and fumbled to put my wallet away. Then he pulled out a $20 and said &#8220;Anyway I&#8217;m rich, I just robbed an old lady on the way over here. She yelled &#8216;Stop! Stop!&#8217; but I said SHUT UP!&#8221;&nbsp;<BR><BR>I saved this pseudo-joke&nbsp;by adding, &#8220;How rude of her.&#8221;<BR><BR>He laughed loudly, and so did the girl behind the counter, which made me happy, but unfortunately he couldn&#8217;t stop there. He added &#8220;yeah, I don&#8217;t know where these old people get off thinking they get to keep money.&#8221;<BR><BR>Thud. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have twice before lamented the ways in which my jokes have been ruined by others. First there was the lament over people not getting your jokes and thinking you&#8217;re the one who&#8217;s stupid. Then there was the problem of people not hearing your jokes and the inappropriateness of repeating them (can&#8217;t find it in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58QoK-16y","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}