<![CDATA[SVUG #6: How do I use geek humor to my advantage? - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[SVUG #6: How do I use geek humor to my advantage? - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[SVUG #6: How do I use geek humor to my advantage?]]> As a geek, I'd like to point out to you that meeting us on the grounds of humour is an excellent method of winning trust. But you have to truly understand what you're quoting, and random lines that you read off someone's blog post will only last you for so-long before they show you up as a "wannabe" or "poser". However, take heart! If you genuinely want to understand geeky humour, we'll gladly help out, and the genuine laugh that means you "got" it is one of the best possible rewards!

Monty Python isn't the only thing to quote. There's also The Highly Esteemed Goon Show, the BOFH, and plenty else. If someone's tired of MP, go to [www.theregister.co.uk] and start reading.

Rosuav

]]> <![CDATA[SVUG #6: How do I use geek humor to my advantage?]]> I vote Lebowsky.

Nick Douglas

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Funkalcious: Yes, very good, you googled it well, but my entire point was that was funny the first two hundred times, and it's WEARING A BIT FUCKING THIN NOW. You proved my point about hopeless dickwads just recanting the same old phrases over and over and over and over and over again. GAAH!

Please, I am begging you. Move on. It's the 21st century now. Put the DVDs down and walk away. Try something new to quote, like The Princess Bride, or Kentucky Fried Movie, or just anything but bloody Python.

Fatlimey

]]> <![CDATA[SVUG #6: How do I use geek humor to my advantage?]]> With all due respect to Fatlimey, us foreigners still love MP. I have seen a few Brit comedies but none of them come close. How can you beat:

"'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff!

Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now

'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir

invisible! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT! "

Brilliant!

Funkalicious

]]> <![CDATA[SVUG #6: How do I use geek humor to my advantage?]]> wow this is amazing! i don't think anyone who reads this has ever heard of monty python before! wow, this really is the most insightful and illuminating post i've ever read! thanks!

cracksmoker

]]> <![CDATA[SVUG #6: How do I use geek humor to my advantage?]]> "Has the entire punishment/reward system ass-backwards. Which is ok, because he can be tricked into forcing you to sit in a comfy chair and do nothing for hours."

This is probably the funniest single line I've read on Valleywag. (Funny because it's true)

Malaclypse

]]> <![CDATA[SVUG #6: How do I use geek humor to my advantage?]]> Shoot me now.

As an ex-pat Englishman, having smirking geeks sidle up to you, grinning, to unleash the Python catchphrase of the week at you, ("But it's a CHEESE shop!") then stand back waiting for you to laugh an their *outrageous* mirth. You get a taste of the hell that Michael Palin and John Cleese must live in daily.

It's painful. Python was funny, like... BACK IN THE NINETEEN-SEVENTIES. It's catchphrases have since eclipsed by Fawlty Towers, The Comic Strip Presents, Father Ted, Black Books, Spaced and reams of other UK-based comedy that has been written the intervening thirty years. Comedy didn't stop when Margret Thatcher came to power.

Go download The IT Crowd. Watch. Update yourself. For the love of international relations, please do it before I snap this CDR and embed the jagged shards into your neck.

Fatlimey

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