Jokes - Good, Bad and Rude

[wjp666]

Oh dear, this one cracked a smile... only briefly though.

A boy and a cnild-murderer are out at night, walking towards the forest.
The boy says, "It's dark! I don't like it! I'm scared!"
The child-murderer says, "You're scared! I've got to walk back out of here on my own!"

[loulou]

I've heard that one before.

[loulou]

Can anyone think of a funny joke about murdering children? 

strange thing to ask.

[wjp666]

i was a bit taken back when said topic was mentioned, but hey... anyone got anything a tad more upbeat to suggest?

[oldspice]

I think Bounty was suggesting that he finds this thread in bad taste and when he asked whether anyone knew a joke about murdered children he wondered how low jokes could go.

I don't think he actually wanted to hear any. I'm not judging anyone, i loved the "does my bomb look big in this" joke as well. I'm just picking up on Bounty's tone and intention. Am I right Bounty?

[loulou]

I can understand that.

[wjp666]

i think what offends me most about this whole bad-taste-disastaer joke thing is this: A./ 99% are simply not funny and not worth the effort, and thought up braindead night-shift truckers on the cb to their mates. and B./ people LET THEMSELVES get so offended at them... EXAMPLE: the amount of people i've seen get irate at the old princess diana stuff is ridiculous. i've had a couple of people i've known die in seriously grissly ways involving motor vehicles and i choose for it not to affect me because these things simply happen EVERYWHERE (and not just to the people we see get news coverage on tv who we pretend to have real emotional links to), yet just because this person was famous (and/or got the front page of the Sun), it invokes some kind of moral crusade out of joe-public.

riiiiight - time for a valium.

Oldspice has hit the nail on the head.  I wondered how far the jokes would go.  The Dunblane joke isn't funny.  Some things will never be funny and the murder of 16 children is one of them.  I am being judgemental, but there you are.

[wjp666]

well, there are some sweet jokes out there involving the titanic, the tsunami and other such morbid stuff (plus: more than a few michael jackson ones have cropped up on here from time to time) - plenty of kids were involved there.

its not that i dont agree with you mr. h, its just i dont like to limit anybody to certain things. a few people liked the 'bomb' joke a few days back... would it have instantly been deemed unfunny if, say, a couple of kids were involved in the blast? hmm... who knows.

just me, thats all.

Spike Milligan was the master of bad jokes.  He once said, 'I hope Harry Secombe dies before me so he can't sing at my funeral'.

 

[Bunny]

Spike famously wanted the following epitaph on his grave:

"I told you I was ill"

[smurfboy]

Great moment in 'Tales of the City':

Edgar Halcyon (who has just discovered he's dying): What would your last words be?

Anna Madrigal: 'Oh sh*t'?

[wjp666]

ANYONE SEEN THIS BEFORE? ANYONE SEE TBHE 'IRONY' ANYONE?

[oldspice]

It's an emotiwhatsit. Is it this one  ?

[wjp666]