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Stuart G

(38,421 posts)
Mon Dec 26, 2011, 05:48 PM Dec 2011

A joke about a senior citizen confronting a young man on a bus #8

A young punk gets on the cross-town bus. He has got spiked multi-colored hair that is green, purple and orange.

His clothes are a tattered mix of rags.

His legs are bare, he is in shorts and the legs are covered with odd tatoos. His face and body are riddled with pierced jewelry and his earrings are big, bright feathers.

He sits down in the only vacant seat, directly across from an old man who glares at him for the next 20 minutes....Finally,,,

The punk gets self -conscious and barks at the old man..."What are you looking at you old fart...didn't you ever do anything
wild when you were young?..Without missing a beat..the old man replies: Yeah, back when I was young and in the navy, I got really drunk one night in Singapore, and I had sex with a parrot...I thought maybe you were my son..."

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A joke about a senior citizen confronting a young man on a bus #8 (Original Post) Stuart G Dec 2011 OP
Not really funny. Quartermass Dec 2011 #1
Hahaaaa! pacalo Dec 2011 #2
Meh. Heard this in about 10 different forms. ElboRuum Dec 2011 #3
Nothing new in jokeland... Stuart G Dec 2011 #4
If someone was glaring at me for 20 minutes I'd say something also. Shoe Horn Dec 2011 #5
About the joke not being "funny.." Stuart G Dec 2011 #6
Laughed out loud blueamy66 Dec 2011 #7
Glaring at someone and saying they look like a son of parrot----> not mean. Shoe Horn Dec 2011 #9
A joke at the expense of a beat up and already reviled minority. Shoe Horn Dec 2011 #8
Right. That's it. Glassunion Dec 2011 #12
lol Shoe Horn Dec 2011 #13
About the most un-funny thing I've heard in a while. Shoe Horn Dec 2011 #10
Gave me a chuckle. Not laugh out loud, but a chuckle none the less. Glassunion Dec 2011 #11

Stuart G

(38,421 posts)
4. Nothing new in jokeland...
Tue Dec 27, 2011, 09:06 AM
Dec 2011

I remember watching Star Trek IV, about the whales. Spock and Kirk are on a bus, and this joke is played out in a different form.
I laughed then, and I laugh now at this one.

Shoe Horn

(302 posts)
5. If someone was glaring at me for 20 minutes I'd say something also.
Tue Dec 27, 2011, 09:19 AM
Dec 2011

Making fun of adventurous fashion seems petty and conformist.
Also, the joke just isn't funny.

Stuart G

(38,421 posts)
6. About the joke not being "funny.."
Tue Dec 27, 2011, 09:25 AM
Dec 2011

To you it isn't funny, to me it is.

Humor is a private thing.
The exaggeration of the scene, if you have seen Star Trek IV,
is the clue to this humor..It worked for me,
but not for you.
...sorry..
. After all, it is just a joke..

 

blueamy66

(6,795 posts)
7. Laughed out loud
Tue Dec 27, 2011, 09:30 AM
Dec 2011

why do people feel the need to be mean?

Like my Mom used to say.....If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all....Oh, and she is dead now, so don't say something mean about her too, k?

Shoe Horn

(302 posts)
9. Glaring at someone and saying they look like a son of parrot----> not mean.
Tue Dec 27, 2011, 09:33 AM
Dec 2011

Yeah, you get the moral high ground here. Pfffft.

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