How Jokes Die
 

I just realized that 'your mom' jokes dying shall be two-fold.

Firstly, as the jokes get older, they fall more and more out of style.

And secondly, as I grow older, it becomes more likely that the person I am talking to (assuming I converse mainly with people fairly close to my age) has a dead mother and that the joke just becomes uncomfortable for everyone.*


This saddens me.

*These people are such goddamn whiners. WAAAAAH my mom is dead and it clearly wasn't recently and you had absolutely no way of knowing that YOU'RE SUCH A JERK FOR MAKING THE ASSUMPTION THAT I, LIKE THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE OF MY AGE GROUP, HAVE A LIVING MOTHER

The correct response to a dead mother in such a situation is, and always has been, "Well, I guess that explains why she didn't move much last night."

Or when they say "My mother is dead" say "I know"

What are you talking about? Your mom jokes had their exhaustion phase in like 1990, they've been an undead joke since. And the undead have no Constitution score, so they can run forever. That's the best stage of a running joke, when they never ever stop.

Not entirely unlike your mom.

Invisible Queen is how.

That dazed me and made me spill my nachos. Bravo.

I prefer to say "Yes. I was there when she choked."

I didn't say that they would stop being funny, just that they would become less socially appropriate.:dance:

one time i made a your mom joke i basically said i fucked your mom two hours ago and the other guy said she was at work at that time and i said well duh i know i paid her.

Went way over his head too. Which is the sad part.