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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?

Date: 2001-08-22 03:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2001-08-22 07:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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...

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