Anybody good at quotes and punchlines(not rap)?

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12 Jun 2011, 2:54 pm

It is the think i am probably really good at.Answers or quotes come out automatically like a machine without thinking.Saying wise things or smart things or embarrassing some other who tries to be smart to you.Any other?

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12 Jun 2011, 3:06 pm

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12 Jun 2011, 3:54 pm

I have to restrain myself from giving snappy answers to stupid questions. I've gotten a bit tired of creating more problems for myself, and need to spend my efforts fixing some that I created a long time ago.

I sometimes get fascinated with a particular quote, or a particularly rich source of quotes. Right now, I can't get Churchill out of my head, and I keep thinking "that is precisely the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put," but I know very few people in the world would understand the meaning so I never say it. "I have heard that people benefit greatly from criticism, and I have never suffered from the lack thereof," also keeps running through my head, but I haven't had a chance to use it yet. I don't know whether I've recalled those word-perfectly or not.

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12 Jun 2011, 4:54 pm

I make lousy punchlines on a daily bases, they're usually not funny and I always feel stupid afterward. But I do use quotes by Robin Williams or Dave Chappelle as punchline, and that usually brings a laugh or two,.

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12 Jun 2011, 6:02 pm

jrjones9933 wrote:

I sometimes get fascinated with a particular quote, or a particularly rich source of quotes. Right now, I can't get Churchill out of my head, and I keep thinking "that is precisely the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put," but I know very few people in the world would understand the meaning (..)

I bet the correlation between those who recognise it and those who have excellent spelling and grammar (when they so choose) is very high.

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12 Jun 2011, 6:10 pm

I can be very funny, which I think is largely due to the perspective Aspergers gives me, but I also make a lot of jokes that fall flat.

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12 Jun 2011, 7:07 pm

jrjones9933 wrote:

Very few people in the world would get it?????? That quote is a staple in college Creative Writing classes. It's used as an introduction to both grammar standards and when it is appropriate to break them. Go ahead and use it. Anybody who took a Creative Writing class (or taught one) in college has heard it.

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12 Jun 2011, 7:47 pm

jrjones9933 wrote:

I'm a member of that club, myself.

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12 Jun 2011, 8:12 pm

I'm good at saying deep, poetic things on the fly but that's pretty much it for that.

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15 Jun 2011, 2:52 pm

I am not great at general tact or sayings, I do a lot of puns.

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15 Jun 2011, 3:09 pm

I suppose you could say that.

My sig is original.

I started keeping a list of them.

Here's a fun one:

Stupidity is like uranium. As long as you keep stupid people far enough apart, everything is OK. But too many too close together and you get to critical mass. Then BOOM. A thermo-stupider explosion.

And a serious one:

You can live a little every day or you can die a little every day. Choose wisely.

Both come straight from my weird ass mind. I suspect there are many variations on the second from other sources.

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15 Jun 2011, 4:37 pm

wavefreak58 wrote:

Here's a fun one:

Stupidity is like uranium. As long as you keep stupid people far enough apart, everything is OK. But too many too close together and you get to critical mass. Then BOOM. A thermo-stupider explosion.

And a serious one:

You can live a little every day or you can die a little every day. Choose wisely.

Both come straight from my weird ass mind. I suspect there are many variations on the second from other sources.

Good stuff!

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