Sometimes I feel my life consists of seeing or hearing things that make for amazing jokes, only to have the punchline ruined. After some thought I realise that to say "my life consists of..." is some what hyperbole, but then I realised that hyperbole is acceptable as it's the best figure of speech in the known 'verse (apart from maybe metaphors, which could eat hyperbole for breakfast).
Anyway, to give an example. Yesterday I was walking home and it was bitterly cold, the sort of weather in which icicles start to form on your nose and the such. As I was about half way home (opposite Clarks and Virgin Megastore) contemplating the lack of feeling in my toes I saw a police van ahead of me, with a police officer standing outside of it, which wasn't too odd except that in front of the police officer were two people, one of whom was clearly speaking very aggressively to the other and the police officer was just standing there without moving. He wasn't even looking at the town people. As I approached, things started to make sense. The aggressively speaking man was being filmed by the other man and the police officer was there presumably to be interviewed at some point. Just as I walked past the TV Presenter put his arm out and went "like this" and the Police officer handcuffed the man to himself. The camera stopped filming and the police officer smiled and reached for his keys.
At this point I would have liked the police officer to have fumbled with his keys in his big heavy gloves and accidentally dropped them down the drain. The police officer would have then looked apologetically to the TV presenter and the TV presenter would have sworn loudly. To make things even better the TV presenter could have taken off his coat to do the interview and then been unable to put it back on (due to the handcuffs). Then trying to warm himself up he would have tried to put his hands into his pocket and then dragging the police officer's hand with him, accidentally smashing his head into the police officer's.
Unfortunately the police officer managed to open the lock in one slick motion upon which they shook hands and all went home. How dull.
(8) This Is The Night - The Weird Sisters
Anecdotes can be made into jokes with punchlines using amazing literary ninja skills. Do you have amazing literary ninja skills? Do you?
IN THE FACE!!!
yes i do.
now would you like to take this outside?
No. You have amazing literary ninja skills. I'm not fighting you!
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David
that's not really a joke at all Mark. more what could have been an amusing anecdote you tell to your friends.