A strange fridge magnet.

[baratron]

The other day, my mum bought me a fridge magnet which reads "I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe". Both of my parents find it absolutely hilarious. But I don't understand it. Can anyone help?

Comments

[elynne.livejournal.com]

Hm... y'know, I don't understand it either. I hadn't really thought of it before. I suppose... it could be a reference to paralell parking? Like... okay, like everybody else on the street is paralell parked: - - - - But if you're parked diagonally, you'd be sticking out, like this: - - / - -

I dunno why that's funny, though. =@.@= Hm.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

I think --/-- is the way to sum it up, yeah. But I agree. It's just not funny.

[adjectivemarcus.livejournal.com]

It's working on the Invisible Suit principle.

Fridge Magnets are funny. So, it's obviously funny because it's on a fridge magnet. Because they know it's funny they laugh. Because one person laughs the other does too, not wanting to appear a fool.

Look at the king, look at the king, look at the king the king the king!

It's not funny. It may have supposed to have been a pithy witty comment on feeling like one is dislocated or in the wrong shaped hole, but it's not a 'joke' per se.

parent humour.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

I think the way it worked is that my mum, knowing I collect fridge magnets, had a look through the ones in a shop she was in to buy one for me as a present. When she found one with a slogan that sounded suitably geeky, she bought it. Unfortunately, it's geek humour as written by someone who's heard the phrases but doesn't understand what they mean. Which is why it utterly fails to be funny.

Now, the fridge magnets that Marcus & Cath got me for Christmas last year - they are funny...

[mathochist.livejournal.com]

I think it's funny because of the dual meaning of "parallel". It refers at the same time to parallel parking and a parallel universe. So the "I don't fit in / I feel like an alien" image is even stronger. I both stick out as if I'm parked wrong, and I'm in the entire wrong universe.

[jaxom.livejournal.com]

Ypu, with you on that one.

I must admit, I smirked when I read it, purely because of the pun.

You could probably have substituted anything after the parallel - though 'diagonally parked in an otherwise parallel row of cars' wouldn't have fitted quite so well.

mind you...

[jaxom.livejournal.com]

If you think that's dodgy, my sister bought me some geek fridge poetry (make pithy comments with fsck and /dev/null etc)

The worst bit though is simply the big one with
'geek magnet' on it. So bad, it's good.