On 3/23/07, Phil Sandifer Snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
I think there's some point here - there's a lot of junk on BJAODN that's just, well, junk. For instance, I don't think much of anyone is going to find much to recommend "CHUCK IS AN EVIL MAN WHO EATS TENNIS BALLS! HE JUST EATS THEM WITH MANGO SALSA!!!!" as humor.
That's pretty damn hilarious, actually.
On the other hand, "The Secretary-General of the UN can be distinguished from the General-Secretary of the UN in that whilst one is in charge of the entire world, the other types letters and answers phone calls." is in fact a bit funny.
In fact, I find the incongruous image of eating tennis balls, with mango salsa no less, as an indicator of evilness, than the passage above, which is a simple pun on the word secretary.
Remember, it's called "bad jokes and other deleted nonsense", not "reasonably good jokes that Phil finds humorous." If Phil is correct in his opinion, than his first selection does a better job of qualifying as a bad joke.
In all seriousness, humor is a subjective thing.