I admit I take a perverse pride in NOT getting jokes. Maybe I like being disconnected from common thought and culture. Maybe I celebrate naivete.
Regarding this joke. Is it contrast between the gravity of being massacred and the silliness of what we care about daily? Like: Darn, I forgot to take out the trash. There must be something I'm missing. I was trying to draw a connection between being scalped and convertible cars but didn't succeed. In Saving Private Ryan, the guy fantasizes about being home, mowing his lawn. A simple chore happily performed in a suburban world of peace and order. Is there something like that going on here?
Okay, so here's the original joke - what did Custer say at Little Big Horn? (beat) Where's all the fuckin' Injuns comin' from?
So my father told me that joke; it was one of TWO times I heard him say fuck in 23 years. So that's what made the joke funny to my initially, his swearing. And, of course, it's an "obvious" joke, no clever word play or anything.
So I started thinking on variants to the answer; other "obvious" things that could be happening. A bird pooped on his head, say, or he didn't have change for the meter. But stuff that had NOTHING to do with Little Big Horn but did include the "fuckin'" that my father introduced to the original.
And this is what I came up with. Or, to put that another way, it's not really a "joke" but YOUR analysis was pretty much spot on, gravity of event and silliness of the day to day. Certainly a disconnect...
I admit I take a perverse pride in NOT getting jokes. Maybe I like being disconnected from common thought and culture. Maybe I celebrate naivete.
ReplyDeleteRegarding this joke. Is it contrast between the gravity of being massacred and the silliness of what we care about daily? Like: Darn, I forgot to take out the trash.
There must be something I'm missing. I was trying to draw a connection between being scalped and convertible cars but didn't succeed.
In Saving Private Ryan, the guy fantasizes about being home, mowing his lawn. A simple chore happily performed in a suburban world of peace and order. Is there something like that going on here?
I love not knowing.
Well, I'm ready to dive into it and explain it right now, but then I read "I love not knowing" so maybe I shouldn't...?
ReplyDeleteOK. Give me the explanation please.
DeleteOkay, so here's the original joke - what did Custer say at Little Big Horn? (beat) Where's all the fuckin' Injuns comin' from?
ReplyDeleteSo my father told me that joke; it was one of TWO times I heard him say fuck in 23 years. So that's what made the joke funny to my initially, his swearing. And, of course, it's an "obvious" joke, no clever word play or anything.
So I started thinking on variants to the answer; other "obvious" things that could be happening. A bird pooped on his head, say, or he didn't have change for the meter. But stuff that had NOTHING to do with Little Big Horn but did include the "fuckin'" that my father introduced to the original.
And this is what I came up with. Or, to put that another way, it's not really a "joke" but YOUR analysis was pretty much spot on, gravity of event and silliness of the day to day. Certainly a disconnect...