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What forms of wit are lower than sarcasm?

ButlerButler 89 episodes or bustRegistered User regular
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Oscar Wilde wrote:
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence.

I dunno Oscar, I think we can and do have worse! Saying "Gesundheit!" after someone uses an obscure word, for example. Or deliberately mispronouncing names like 'M. Night Shyamalan' or 'Benedict Cumberbatch'. What else you got, SE++?

(To be clear, I'm talking 'low' in terms of structure, here, rather than level of cruelty or even how funny the joke is. Perhaps a good rule of thumb is 'How easily could an AI be trained to make new examples of the wit-form with human-equivalent timing and execution?')

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    ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    The dreaded and horrible pune.

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    PeasPeas Registered User regular
    https://inspirobot.me/
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    This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
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    PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    Encouraging someone to speak and then emulating the sound of a fart with one's mouth

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    VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    I know you are, you said you are, so what am I?

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    sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    Miming masturbation to convey contempt.

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    Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    The lowest form of wit is jokes about the Mariana Trench.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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    ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    edited August 2020
    Any person ever: "It really grinds my gears when [x]."

    Some chucklefuck in the first comment: "X! haha! but like, as a joke!"

    Shorty on
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    tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Veldrin wrote: »
    I know you are, you said you are, so what am I?

    isn't this the republican political strategy, ba-dum-tish

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    3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    Munkus Beaver wrote: »
    The lowest form of wit is jokes about the Mariana Trench.

    Posts of this form.

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    Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Also I dunno about lowest but my favorite running joke on the forums is the chain of people correcting the previous person with a correct definition but incorrect word and continuing the chain.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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    Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Bodily functions.

    Can you get any lower than a fart?

    But, timed well and delivered with a certain aplomb, can you get any funnier?

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    BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited August 2020
    posting that one youtube video where it's clips from the dune movie but the voices are redubbed funny in response to anyone mentioning any of the bits from that video

    if by lower you mean better

    BahamutZERO on
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    PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    My posts.

    Boom, got 'em.

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    Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    My posts.

    Boom, got 'em.

    God
    Damn

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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    JavenJaven Registered User regular
    The phrase ‘reality has hack writers’ has never been funny or clever.

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    Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    BahamutZERO wrote: »
    posting that one youtube video where it's clips from the dune movie but the voices are redubbed funny in response to anyone mentioning any of the bits from that video

    if by lower you mean better

    Sounds like you need to put your God-damned hand in the God-damned box o' pain.

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    BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    Veldrin wrote: »
    I know you are, you said you are, so what am I?

    You know what I am
    You know what I was
    Change me! Change me!

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    #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited August 2020
    Munkus Beaver wrote: »
    Also I dunno about lowest but my favorite running joke on the forums is the chain of people correcting the previous person with a correct definition but incorrect word and continuing the chain.

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    #pipe on
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    BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    ha HA, photobagel

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    UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    In *your* endo

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    tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Usagi wrote: »
    In *your* endo

    no that one's a classic

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    #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    BahamutZERO wrote: »
    ha HA, photobagel

    I cannot believe I got photobageled

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    sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited August 2020
    Intentionally mispronouncing words to upset someone is pretty low.

    Which is completely different than intentionally mispronouncing words just because I like the sound of mispronounced words (which I do on a nearly constant basis).

    sarukun on
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    HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    Purposely stating incorrect things to make people mad. Like so,

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    HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    sarukun wrote: »
    Intentionally mispronouncing words to upset someone is pretty low.

    Which is completely different than intentionally mispronouncing words just because I like the sound of mispronounced words (which I do on a nearly constant basis).
    When this happens with foreign foods I can't help but think people need to get smacked upside the head. They know how to pronounce fajita, it's not funny to do it wrong.

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    VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    sarukun wrote: »
    Intentionally mispronouncing words to upset someone is pretty low.

    Which is completely different than intentionally mispronouncing words just because I like the sound of mispronounced words (which I do on a nearly constant basis).

    saru is this you

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    sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    Fajita is an exception because it sounds like lady bits and genitals are fucking hilarious.

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    Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    Replying to quotes dead people might have said.

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    Mr FuzzbuttMr Fuzzbutt Registered User regular
    Henroid wrote: »
    sarukun wrote: »
    Intentionally mispronouncing words to upset someone is pretty low.

    Which is completely different than intentionally mispronouncing words just because I like the sound of mispronounced words (which I do on a nearly constant basis).
    When this happens with foreign foods I can't help but think people need to get smacked upside the head. They know how to pronounce fajita, it's not funny to do it wrong.

    bad example, the mispronounciation of that one is hilarious

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    sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    Veldrin wrote: »
    sarukun wrote: »
    Intentionally mispronouncing words to upset someone is pretty low.

    Which is completely different than intentionally mispronouncing words just because I like the sound of mispronounced words (which I do on a nearly constant basis).

    saru is this you

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4r91mc8pbo

    Good heavens no, I only entertain this secret vice under my breath or out of earshot of other humans.

    But like, do I sound like that, yes, absolutely, that is my internal monologue roughly 68% of the time.

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    HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    Mr Fuzzbutt wrote: »
    Henroid wrote: »
    sarukun wrote: »
    Intentionally mispronouncing words to upset someone is pretty low.

    Which is completely different than intentionally mispronouncing words just because I like the sound of mispronounced words (which I do on a nearly constant basis).
    When this happens with foreign foods I can't help but think people need to get smacked upside the head. They know how to pronounce fajita, it's not funny to do it wrong.

    bad example, the mispronounciation of that one is hilarious
    That one in particular was a gateway "joke" for people in Texas who though I would be okay with the rest of their racist / xenophobic shit regarding Mexicans.

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    PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    Henroid wrote: »
    Purposely stating incorrect things to make people mad. Like so,

    w8oPv0J.jpg

    I thought about going to a Star Wars convention dressed as J'Kar, with a Bat'leth and talk to everyone about the Cylon threat.

    My friend said he would 'cut off my balls and send them into space' if I did that, and rightly so.

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    Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Veldrin wrote: »
    sarukun wrote: »
    Intentionally mispronouncing words to upset someone is pretty low.

    Which is completely different than intentionally mispronouncing words just because I like the sound of mispronounced words (which I do on a nearly constant basis).

    saru is this you

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4r91mc8pbo

    I got 30 seconds into this and I wanted to murder the person who made the video, and you for linking it.

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    WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    Thread farming material.

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    BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    :arrow:

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    WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    Posting

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    HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    Lime for truth. Salmon for lies.

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    PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    Henroid wrote: »
    Lime for truth. Salmon for lies.

    Wow that takes me back

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    Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    Responding to somebody saying "I'm [adjective]" with "Hi [adjective], I'm [Name]"

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
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    DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    I like pooping

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