On a serious note

How many forumites take an interest in the jokes submitted?

A breakdown of the last 28 jokes reveals that they averaged
only 3 responses each.

Deduct three of those which attracted 15, 10 and 8 responses
and the average drops to 2 on each.

When you consider that 7 of the 28 received no response at
all I would think that some contributors we be disappointed.

Ok, I know, some forumites will jump on me and claim that
the jokes are just not funny enough, so let's get some action
from them and put a smile on a few faces.

What do you think !

Allan

Shirely you can't be serious :rolleyes::)

Shirley

Sometimes I laugh and post
Sometimes I just laugh
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and sometimes I just don't get it :2tsup:


Not funny, Jan

Brillant!! We got the average of 2 responses.

OH carp. I've buggered the statistics, :D

Ya stats suck Allan ...........why??

Repetitive Jokes should not be included in the stats

Jokes as old as yourself discarded from the stats

now there is 50% of the stats gone

and i like Chris have buggered it yet again :doh:

and its hard to type with tears in your eyes

While I enjoy most of the jokes, I see no reason to reply to them. They're jokes, not political manifestos.

Yup, you should be paying more attention to the views rather than the replies.

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Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

Yup, you should be paying more attention to the views rather than the replies.

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I agree

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Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

Yup, you should be paying more attention to the views rather than the replies.

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Yes Cliff and Nick, I do look at the number of views and that
is food for thought. Surely if we see a joke has had 300 odd
views and only one person has seen fit to show their appreciation
the contributor would feel a bit miffed...providing it was funny.

Sure not every joke is an original and just about every one is
a regurtitated version of one we heard last week, month or
year or so ago. New jokes don't just grow on trees for woodies.

Ray, joking about my age. By the time you get to my age you
will have forgotten all the good jokes and be recycling too. :D

By the way, good to see you are all reading this section in
between woodworking/woodturning and other pursuits.:2tsup:

Allan

Allan to late after years of telling them.

WW is on the simmer ATM injury yes from a lathe no not while turning.

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Originally Posted by wheelinround

Allan to late after years of telling them.

WW is on the simmer ATM injury yes from a lathe no not while turning.

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"ATM" injury ??? Did you injure your arm taking all your money
out of the automatic teller machine? :D

Allan

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Originally Posted by Allan at Wallan

"ATM" injury ??? Did you injure your arm taking all your money
out of the automatic teller machine? :D

Allan

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What money :no: none left after newer car ( 2007 Forester)

Nah :~ injured top of my right hand hit it against the tension knob on the outrigger of the Nova. Right on top of tendon artery and bone, badly bruised it was healing well but due to having to use it to move around :B yep upset it again.

was wondering why you were so quiet

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Originally Posted by wheelinround

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Nah :~ injured top of my right hand hit it against the tension knob on the outrigger of the Nova. Right on top of tendon artery and bone, badly bruised it was healing well but due to having to use it to move around :B yep upset it again.

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You'd be beside yourself trying to wheel one handed.... again & again & again. :D

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Originally Posted by Sawdust Maker

was wondering why you were so quiet

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Was busy until it happened last week (see blog) a few days rest till swelling and bruising went down then back into it for 2 days . Till it became a problem again.:~

Surely you don't want us to post a followup to every joke we read here ?

If I've nothing to say...well, sometimes I post anyway...:)

Well, I put up the start of a cracking good joke 2 days ago (the sort that needs replies to make it funnier, and the answers delivered by drip feed. Over 100 views, no responses. Specifically stated not to answer if you know the gag. So some clot eventually replies, spews out all the answers (has heard it before), no joke delivery skills. An excellent joke completely screwed up. It's the only joke I know that starts and finishes with a punch line.

If the joke is a cracker I always give a response. Even just one word will give the poster some gratification. Imagine being a stand up comic with an audience behind a soundproof screen. They're all pissing themselves laughing, but the comic gets no feedback. After a while he wouldn't be funny anymore. That's why canned laughter doesn't work, and why a live audience does. Don't you just love those almost out-take moments when the players can hardly get the words out?

LIVE-LIVE-LIVE so
FEEDBACK-FEEDBACK-FEEDBACK or FEEBACK

Did you know you can tell a persons nationality by how many times he laughs at a joke?

A Frenchman laughs once - he catches on straight away.

A German laughs twice - once to be polite when you tell it and again when you explain it but he never catches on.

An English man laughs three times - once to be polite when you tell it and again when you explain it then again in about three weeks when he suddenly catches on.

An American dose not Laugh at all he has heard it before.



I wonder how many feather are going to be ruffled by that, it will probably prove my point.
Regards

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Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

You'd be beside yourself trying to wheel one handed.... again & again & again. :D

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Its not that hard Cliff biggest problem is reverse different action :o but going in circles makes me :runaway:

Allan your lucky such as Fenderbelly and myself have put jokes up only to have them moved to the ORANGE ROOM cause they are BLUE no one sees them did you count those in the stats.

minor thread hijack...
true story...:rolleyes:

An Australian professor was invited to Japan to adress a group of scientists interested in his research.
Unable to speak Japanese, he used an interpreter,
Being Australian, he liked to entertain his listeners with the odd joke.
Aware that the Japanese may not get his jokes, he was a bit tentative,
During the presentation he tried a little joke...when translated, the audience giggled...
Encouraged, he tried a few more and the audience again laughed....

...Later ...on his return to Australia he was sent a transcript of his presentation (as translated by the interpreter)...
the translation of every one of his jokes went thus......

"The honourable Australian professor has just made a joke....it would be polite to laugh now".....

Now that's funny

:rofl:

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Originally Posted by wheelinround

Allan your lucky such as Fenderbelly and myself have put jokes up only to have them moved to the ORANGE ROOM cause they are BLUE no one sees them did you count those in the stats.

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Ahhh, the ORANGE ROOM jokes.
They are the ones you send me by Email and I respond
to them frequently and send others to you in return.:doh:

They were not counted in my stats.

However, this has proven to be a lively discussion and certainly
attracted more attention than any recent jokes. Well done everyone.

Allan

:U Only passing them round Allan, enjoying many of them .

Sadly i am deleting more and more these days either not worth the effort or to large an attachment.

The good ones well :;

Most of those put up are either older than when JC played full back for Jerusalem(sp) or just to childish, ie copied from the kids pages in the Sunday papers
Just my opinion though . Just carry on for those who follow them
Pete

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Originally Posted by Sawdust Maker

Now that's funny

:rofl:

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:whs:

Awesome story :2tsup:

Unfortunately after reading some of the jokes, it becomes imperative to clean the coffee off of the screen. Then the mood to respond is lost.

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Originally Posted by rrich

Unfortunately after reading some of the jokes, it becomes imperative to clean the coffee off of the screen. Then the mood to respond is lost.

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My wife made me a cup of coffee this morning and I
said to her, "This coffee tastes like dirt".

She replied, "So it should, it was ground this morning".

Quick ... check your screen.:D

Allan

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Originally Posted by AlexS

While I enjoy most of the jokes, I see no reason to reply to them. They're jokes, not political manifestos.

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I agree, what can you really respond with besides "haha"? :)

and don't forget that for every reply some more of that carbon leaves the ground and enters the atmosphere. We don't want the coal miners out of work now do we!