Posted 7/18/2019 3:14 PM (GMT 0)
This could be a forum first.
While it has been a tradition around here to have the occasional "Friday humor" thread, on a Friday obviously, they have usually run their course over a day or two, and then faded, to be succeeded by a future Friday humor, as the mood for starting another one would strike a poster.
But this current one has been going on now for almost a week, an actual week if it makes it through to tomorrow, and so far there is no sign of quitting. Sort of like the on-the-verge-of-becoming infamous Nothing thread that has continued to flourish hereabouts, this won't-die current Friday humor thread just seems to keep going and going, like the TV little bunny rabbit battery commercial.
So, is the forum now moving into the era of "immortal threads," akin to the "zombie threads" which pop up from time to time? How will we now come to measure the life of a Friday humor thread? If it lasts into the following Friday, does it continue as is, or does it automatically become a new Friday thread, or does it morph into something else? My, such weighty questions!
But for now at least, in order to make forum history, I hereby submit below another attempt at humor, to help along the spilling over of this current thread into tomorrow, Friday, thus creating the forum's first superthread of Friday humor.
Who knows? Maybe "immortal threads" are the coming thing?
A boss and two of his office workers are walking to lunch when they find an antique oil lamp lying on the ground. One of them picks it up, rubs it, and, sure enough, a genie pops out.
"I'll grant each of you one wish," the genie says.
"Me first! Me first!" one of the workers says. "I want to be in Florida, riding a jet ski over open waters, without a care in the world."
The genie waves his hand, and Poof! the worker is gone, getting his wish.
"Me next! Me next!" says the other worker. "I want to be in Hawaii, relaxing on the beach with a beautiful companion, and an endless supply of Pina Coladas."
The genie waves his hand, and Poof! the worker is gone, getting his wish.
"OK, you're next," the genie then says to the boss. "What do you want?"
The boss grumpily says, "I want those two back in the office after lunch."