The Highbrow Comedy Thread

poetinahat · Jan 7, 2008

"I'm reading Ulysses for the second time!" he rejoiced.

robeiae · Jan 7, 2008

Don't get saucy with me, Bearnaise.

Yes, yes--pilfered from Mel's HOTW Part I.

poetinahat · Jan 8, 2008

*sigh* I'd had such great expectations. This could have been a Dickens of a thread.

TheIT · Jan 8, 2008

Rather than much ado about nothing?

poetinahat · Jan 8, 2008

*snort*

I encountered a strange taxi company in Boston a while back. It's called 'Algonquin Round Table Cabs'. No matter what address you give the driver, you get dropped off at the door o' the Parker House.

:e2tomato:

[
anecdote: Clare Booth Luce and Dorothy Parker, entering an auditorium, at the door.

CBL (motioning for DP to go first): Age before beauty.

DP (strolling through the door first): Pearls before swine.
]

scarletpeaches · Jan 8, 2008

"This thread gets me so excited!" he ejaculated.

TheIT · Jan 8, 2008

Maybe this thread isn't much to shake a spear at right now, but in about twelve nights it might rise above being a comedy of errors and become a midsummer night's dream.

poetinahat · Jan 8, 2008

So Walt Whitman wrote a little-known book of poems about crystal figurines of Superman. He called it, of course, Reeves of Glass.

*boom-tisssshhhh*

nerds · Jan 8, 2008

Everything you do goes right over my head, said the dog to the Frisbee.

TheIT · Jan 8, 2008

nerdsRus said:
Everything you do goes right over my head, said the dog to the Frisbee.

"Better than going right into your head," said the Frisbee to the dog.

BenPanced · Jan 8, 2008

If Edith Head married Thomas Payne and they had several children, why, their house would be filled with an awful lot of Head-Paynes, wouldn't it?*

*Many thanks to the writers of the show Laugh-In, whose material I gleefully and cheerfully pass on!

poetinahat · Jan 8, 2008

"I'm divorcing you!" Cliff Huxtable declared.

robeiae · Jan 8, 2008

"Oh, Marsha! Oh, Marsha! Oh, Marsha!" screamed Greg.

Wait...that's not actually highbrow, is it?

poetinahat · Jan 8, 2008

I'd say that's more monobrow.

nerds · Jan 8, 2008

I've had it with your clinginess, said the sweater to the lint.

Writer??? · Jan 8, 2008

"Ask not for whom the bell tolls", just go tell the hunchback to stop that s***. People are trying to sleep!

John Paton · Jan 9, 2008

I crossed a ford with a mini last month and ended up with a wet bum.

Does subtle count ??

Americans may not get this joke btw

Maryn · Jan 9, 2008

"My next biography is of Pamela Anderson!" Kitty Kelly tittered.

poetinahat · Jan 9, 2008

"There's a brawl among the inmates!" the prison warden confided.

C.bronco · Jan 9, 2008

I sent Scarlet a letter with Pearls of wisdom.

nyuk nyuk nyuk

quickWit · Jan 9, 2008

This is horrible.

No joke, just an observation.

Carry on.

Writer??? · Jan 9, 2008

Heaven knows Mr. Alison why The Iliad has been written so many times. Perhaps something gets Lost in Translation.

C.bronco · Jan 9, 2008

I bought some grapes of wrath the other day, but now they're all like a raisin in the sun. My moveable feast has withered. I'd better head to Canterbury to buy more produce.
]`from The Grocery Shopper's Tale

nerds · Jan 9, 2008

quickWit said:
This is horrible.

No joke, just an observation.

Carry on.

That is precisely the notion, said the thread to the button.

poetinahat · Jan 9, 2008

nerdsRus said:
That is precisely the notion, said the thread to the button.

"And that's where I draw the line," said the tattoo artist to the cartographer.

The Highbrow Comedy Thread

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