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Charlatan · 02-15-2007, 06:53 AM

Can someone explain why pickles are funny?

Is it the word Pickle (hard vowels and consonants all mushed up in a word).

Is it because of the shape and look of the pickle? Is it the green bumpy texture?

Why?

I find myself in a pickle, craving pickles that I can no longer pick.

Ourcrazymodern? · 02-15-2007, 07:01 AM

Are pickles still funny when you can't pick them anymore, or does that make them frustratingly not funny? I know they're better crunchy than soggy.
Many of the reasons a cucumber is better than a man are funny, but I don't know that they apply equally to pickles. I think it might be the suggestive shape and the aggressive k sound, with a lick at the end.
More concisely, no, I can't explain why pickles are funny.

Sticky · 02-15-2007, 11:25 AM

I don't know...I have never heard a pickel tell a joke.

Ourcrazymodern? · 02-15-2007, 01:28 PM

Who knows what humours lurk in the hearts of pickles?

Only another pickle is what I'm guessing...

Surely some comedian (or comedienne) has spoken?

Giant Hamburger · 02-15-2007, 02:08 PM

WHO DO YOU WORK FOR?

THERE IS NOT ENOUGH TIME!

WHY ARE YOU FUNNY?

Ourcrazymodern? · 02-15-2007, 03:25 PM

Is that a pickle producing electricity?

That's a kind of funny, inasmuchas we can be tickled by the universe.

Giant Hamburger · 02-15-2007, 03:35 PM

Ask this man...

WHY ARE YOU SMILING?

uncle phil · 02-15-2007, 03:53 PM

The Motorcycle Song
Arlo Guthrie

CHORUS:
I don't want a pickle
Just want to ride on my motorsickle
And I don't want a tickle
'Cause I'd rather ride on my motorsickle
And I don't want to die
Just want to ride on my motorcy...cle

It was late last night the other day
I thought I'd go up and see Ray
So l went up and I saw Ray
There was only one thing Ray could say, was:

CHORUS

This song is about the time that I was ridin' my motorcycle.
Going down a mountain road, at 150 miles an hour, playin'
my guitar. On one side of the mountain road there was a
mountain, and on the other side there was nothin' - there was
a cliff in the air.

Now, when you're going down a mountain road at I50 miles
an hour you gotta be very careful, especially if you're playin'
a guitar. Especially if that guitar is an acoustic guitar.
Because if it's an acoustic guitar, the wind pressure is greater
on the box side than on the neck side, because there's
more guitar on the box side. I wasn't payin' attention ..

Luckily I didn't go into the mountain - I went over the cliff.
I was goin' at 150 miles an hour sideways and 500 feet down
at the same time.

I knew it was the end. I looked down, I said ''Wow! Some
trip". I thought it...well I knew it was...I knew it was my last
trip, and in my last remaining seconds in world,I decided
to write one last farewell song to the world.

Put a new ink cartridge in my pen. Took out a piece of paper.
I sat back and I thought awhile. Then I started writin':
I don't want a pickle
Just want to ride on my motorsickle
And I don't want a tickle
'Cause I'd rather ride on my motorsickle

And I don't want to die
Just want to ride on my motorcy ...cle."

I knew that, it wasn't the best song l ever wrote, but I didn't
have time to change it. I was comin' down mighty fast.

But as you all know, and as fate would have it, I didn't die. I
landed on the top of a police car. And he died. I drove away
on the road that he was on. I came into town at a screamin'
175 miles an hour, playin' the motorcycle song.

I came into town, I jumped off my bike, the bike went around
the corner by itself, went up on the stand by itself, turned
itself off.

I walked over to my friend. He was standin' there eatin'
pickles. I said "Hi, what's happenin'?" He looked at me in the
eye and said "Nothin'".

You gotta sing it with that kind of enthusiasm. Like you just
squashed a cop...

CHORUS

Ourcrazymodern? · 02-15-2007, 03:59 PM

(eh?) Why would Your Holy Meatiness be showing me pictures of men observing and chewing pickles? An impertinent question, I'm sure, but sometimes when the copitals and the lower-cases are inter-merged, we arise.
("Copitals" used inadvisably!)

Giant Hamburger · 02-15-2007, 06:04 PM

I am inscrutable

do not attempt to scrut me.

Fly · 02-15-2007, 06:13 PM

i am sorry but.........no........i cannot explain.

*where the hell did the pickle fetish of Charlie's come from?*

.........yes.......fetish.

Astrocloud · 02-16-2007, 06:07 AM

I relish the day when you understand.

Ourcrazymodern? · 02-16-2007, 06:41 AM

Watermelon pickles aren't nearly as suggestive. Or are they?

Charlatan · 02-16-2007, 06:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Giant Hamburger

Ask this man...

WHY ARE YOU SMILING?

I don't think Ratbastid is smiling there... it's more like a grimace.

Perhaps the pickle does not relish the thought of being consumed and is trying to fight back... from the inside.

Ourcrazymodern? · 02-16-2007, 10:33 AM

mmmm...pickles and beer!
more beer, more pickles, more beer, hey, what IS that?

uncle phil · 02-16-2007, 01:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Giant Hamburger

I am inscrutable

do not attempt to scrut me.

that's a left-handed putter...

Charlatan · 02-17-2007, 09:09 PM

Manufacturing comedy, one cucumber at a time.

snowy · 02-17-2007, 09:25 PM

I think it really starts with the cornichon.

FuriousAvatar · 02-18-2007, 01:56 AM

Hey, maybe it has something to do with the pickle juice.

Charlatan · 02-18-2007, 04:01 AM

Happy Chinese New Year... it is the year of the pig this year and appropriately this pig is driving a pickle car...

Grasshopper Green · 02-18-2007, 08:13 AM

I don't know why they are funny, but my name whenever I go bowling is always Pickle. Everyone thinks *that* is amusing.

Ourcrazymodern? · 02-18-2007, 08:34 AM

My younger son tells me that pickles are funny because Ryan is gay.
Yeah, I don't get it either...

Charlatan · 02-18-2007, 09:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Medusa

I don't know why they are funny, but my name whenever I go bowling is always Pickle. Everyone thinks *that* is amusing.

Thanks for chiming in on this Pickles... I think I need you to meet me so I can study you closer and see what it is that makes you funny.

Fly · 02-18-2007, 09:39 AM

what about the olive.

like.......where is the love man.

Grasshopper Green · 02-18-2007, 09:48 AM

Pickles are sour,
Pickles are sweet.
The crunch of a pickle
just can't be beat.

Dill, bread and butter,
Sweet little midget.
They are such funny
shaped little widgets.

On sandwiches, burgers,
or just on the side,
The goodness of pickles
is known far and wide.

So here's to you, pickle
Cucumber in brine.
Your taste will delight
the world throughout time.

My poetry skills rock.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Charlatan

Thanks for chiming in on this Pickles... I think I need you to come to Singapore so I can study you closer and see what it is that makes you funny.

No doubt it's my horrible bowling form.

Ourcrazymodern? · 02-19-2007, 08:53 AM

I had some dill, I had some cardamom,
but I didn't have a cucumber, damnit!

-heh?

Sticky · 02-19-2007, 09:25 AM

PICKLE PUSS PICKLE FLAVORED BUBBLE GUM

http://homepage2.nifty.com/Q/collect...ckles-gum.html

Pickle Puss?
Bubble Gum?

Hmm, what does it look like to you?

Ourcrazymodern? · 02-19-2007, 09:42 AM

Is that available in the United States of America?

Charlatan · 02-19-2007, 06:10 PM

Sticky... that is one brilliant find.

This pickle looks like he might be from the world of GH

I'm not sure he's funny but, damn it... I don't think you can help but laugh at an angry pickle.

Ourcrazymodern? · 02-20-2007, 12:06 PM

...even if you'd be afraid to eat it.

Zooksport2 · 03-15-2007, 03:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by uncle phil

that's a left-handed putter...

well, it's a left handed Pickle!

Ourcrazymodern? · 03-15-2007, 07:37 AM

(frustration)

pickles aren't funny. Sorry, Charlie.

Eeeraq · 03-15-2007, 07:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Charlatan

Perhaps the pickle does not relish the thought of being consumed and is trying to fight back... from the inside.

But, despite the fact that the pickle does not relish being consumed, it will become relish from being consumed.

Giant Hamburger · 03-15-2007, 10:01 AM

Beware! The pickles watch

and they know what you did.

Ourcrazymodern? · 03-17-2007, 09:50 PM

Without ""webcams"" how could they?
Raw, they couldn't. Pickled, they're dead. In a jar is more mysterious...
Sir, your shoes!

Sticky · 03-19-2007, 08:51 AM

Here you go. They are watching.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Charlatan

Sticky... that is one brilliant find.

Thanks, I could not believe that one myself.

Edit: Question? Anybody know why some boards have HTML Code enabled and some don't

Fly · 03-19-2007, 10:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sticky

Edit: Question? Anybody know why some boards have HTML Code enabled and some don't

dude........you don't know?

it's the work of the pickle............

Sticky · 03-19-2007, 11:37 AM

I should have known.
Apparently mustard is in on it too.

mmmm mustard!

Ourcrazymodern? · 03-19-2007, 07:03 PM

Mustard is always in on it.
Is it grey poupon or french's or the colonel?

(just ate some pickled garlic, sorry)

ngdawg · 03-19-2007, 07:40 PM

On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar."
Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson pulling his pickle out of Aunt Sally's cellar? Oh yea....Thomas had it goin on...

02-15-2007, 06:53 AM	#1 (permalink)
Charlatan Getting it. Super Moderator Location: Lion City	Can someone explain? Can someone explain why pickles are funny? Is it the word Pickle (hard vowels and consonants all mushed up in a word). Is it because of the shape and look of the pickle? Is it the green bumpy texture? Why? I find myself in a pickle, craving pickles that I can no longer pick. __________________ "My hands are on fire. Hands are on fire. Ain't got no more time for all you charlatans and liars." - Old Man Luedecke

02-15-2007, 07:01 AM	#2 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	Are pickles still funny when you can't pick them anymore, or does that make them frustratingly not funny? I know they're better crunchy than soggy. Many of the reasons a cucumber is better than a man are funny, but I don't know that they apply equally to pickles. I think it might be the suggestive shape and the aggressive k sound, with a lick at the end. More concisely, no, I can't explain why pickles are funny. __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

02-15-2007, 01:28 PM	#4 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	Who knows what humours lurk in the hearts of pickles? Only another pickle is what I'm guessing... Surely some comedian (or comedienne) has spoken? __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

02-15-2007, 02:08 PM	#5 (permalink)
Giant Hamburger Gastrolithuanian Location: low-velocity Earth orbit	WHO DO YOU WORK FOR? THERE IS NOT ENOUGH TIME! WHY ARE YOU FUNNY? Last edited by Giant Hamburger; 02-15-2007 at 02:13 PM..

02-15-2007, 03:25 PM	#6 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	Is that a pickle producing electricity? That's a kind of funny, inasmuchas we can be tickled by the universe. __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

02-15-2007, 11:25 AM	#3 (permalink)
Sticky	I don't know...I have never heard a pickel tell a joke. __________________ Sticky The Stickman

02-15-2007, 03:35 PM	#7 (permalink)
Giant Hamburger Gastrolithuanian Location: low-velocity Earth orbit	Ask this man... WHY ARE YOU SMILING?

02-15-2007, 03:53 PM	#8 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	The Motorcycle Song Arlo Guthrie CHORUS: I don't want a pickle Just want to ride on my motorsickle And I don't want a tickle 'Cause I'd rather ride on my motorsickle And I don't want to die Just want to ride on my motorcy...cle It was late last night the other day I thought I'd go up and see Ray So l went up and I saw Ray There was only one thing Ray could say, was: CHORUS This song is about the time that I was ridin' my motorcycle. Going down a mountain road, at 150 miles an hour, playin' my guitar. On one side of the mountain road there was a mountain, and on the other side there was nothin' - there was a cliff in the air. Now, when you're going down a mountain road at I50 miles an hour you gotta be very careful, especially if you're playin' a guitar. Especially if that guitar is an acoustic guitar. Because if it's an acoustic guitar, the wind pressure is greater on the box side than on the neck side, because there's more guitar on the box side. I wasn't payin' attention .. Luckily I didn't go into the mountain - I went over the cliff. I was goin' at 150 miles an hour sideways and 500 feet down at the same time. I knew it was the end. I looked down, I said ''Wow! Some trip". I thought it...well I knew it was...I knew it was my last trip, and in my last remaining seconds in world,I decided to write one last farewell song to the world. Put a new ink cartridge in my pen. Took out a piece of paper. I sat back and I thought awhile. Then I started writin': I don't want a pickle Just want to ride on my motorsickle And I don't want a tickle 'Cause I'd rather ride on my motorsickle And I don't want to die Just want to ride on my motorcy ...cle." I knew that, it wasn't the best song l ever wrote, but I didn't have time to change it. I was comin' down mighty fast. But as you all know, and as fate would have it, I didn't die. I landed on the top of a police car. And he died. I drove away on the road that he was on. I came into town at a screamin' 175 miles an hour, playin' the motorcycle song. I came into town, I jumped off my bike, the bike went around the corner by itself, went up on the stand by itself, turned itself off. I walked over to my friend. He was standin' there eatin' pickles. I said "Hi, what's happenin'?" He looked at me in the eye and said "Nothin'". You gotta sing it with that kind of enthusiasm. Like you just squashed a cop... CHORUS __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

02-15-2007, 03:59 PM	#9 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	(eh?) Why would Your Holy Meatiness be showing me pictures of men observing and chewing pickles? An impertinent question, I'm sure, but sometimes when the copitals and the lower-cases are inter-merged, we arise. ("Copitals" used inadvisably!) __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

02-15-2007, 06:04 PM	#10 (permalink)
Giant Hamburger Gastrolithuanian Location: low-velocity Earth orbit	I am inscrutable do not attempt to scrut me.

02-15-2007, 06:13 PM	#11 (permalink)
Fly see the links to my music? Location: Beautiful British Columbia	i am sorry but.........no........i cannot explain. where the hell did the pickle fetish of Charlie's come from? .........yes.......fetish. __________________ BASTARD SterlingStudios

02-16-2007, 06:07 AM	#12 (permalink)
Astrocloud Apocalypse Nerd	I relish the day when you understand.

02-16-2007, 06:41 AM	#13 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	Watermelon pickles aren't nearly as suggestive. Or are they? __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

02-16-2007, 10:33 AM	#15 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	mmmm...pickles and beer! more beer, more pickles, more beer, hey, what IS that? __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

02-17-2007, 09:09 PM	#17 (permalink)
Charlatan Getting it. Super Moderator Location: Lion City	Manufacturing comedy, one cucumber at a time. __________________ "My hands are on fire. Hands are on fire. Ain't got no more time for all you charlatans and liars." - Old Man Luedecke

02-17-2007, 09:25 PM	#18 (permalink)
snowy Kick Ass Kunoichi Location: Oregon	I think it really starts with the cornichon. __________________ If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

02-18-2007, 01:56 AM	#19 (permalink)
FuriousAvatar Crazy Location: Juneau, Alaska	Hey, maybe it has something to do with the pickle juice.

02-18-2007, 04:01 AM	#20 (permalink)
Charlatan Getting it. Super Moderator Location: Lion City	Happy Chinese New Year... it is the year of the pig this year and appropriately this pig is driving a pickle car... __________________ "My hands are on fire. Hands are on fire. Ain't got no more time for all you charlatans and liars." - Old Man Luedecke

02-18-2007, 08:13 AM	#21 (permalink)
Grasshopper Green ...is a comical chap Location: Where morons reign supreme	I don't know why they are funny, but my name whenever I go bowling is always Pickle. Everyone thinks that is amusing. __________________ "They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings; steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king" Formerly Medusa

02-18-2007, 08:34 AM	#22 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	My younger son tells me that pickles are funny because Ryan is gay. Yeah, I don't get it either... __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

02-18-2007, 09:39 AM	#24 (permalink)
Fly see the links to my music? Location: Beautiful British Columbia	what about the olive. like.......where is the love man. __________________ BASTARD SterlingStudios

02-19-2007, 08:53 AM	#26 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	I had some dill, I had some cardamom, but I didn't have a cucumber, damnit! -heh? __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

02-19-2007, 09:25 AM	#27 (permalink)
Sticky	PICKLE PUSS PICKLE FLAVORED BUBBLE GUM http://homepage2.nifty.com/Q/collect...ckles-gum.html Pickle Puss? Bubble Gum? Hmm, what does it look like to you? __________________ Sticky The Stickman

02-19-2007, 09:42 AM	#28 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	Is that available in the United States of America? __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

02-19-2007, 06:10 PM	#29 (permalink)
Charlatan Getting it. Super Moderator Location: Lion City	Sticky... that is one brilliant find. This pickle looks like he might be from the world of GH I'm not sure he's funny but, damn it... I don't think you can help but laugh at an angry pickle. __________________ "My hands are on fire. Hands are on fire. Ain't got no more time for all you charlatans and liars." - Old Man Luedecke

02-20-2007, 12:06 PM	#30 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	...even if you'd be afraid to eat it. __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

03-15-2007, 07:37 AM	#32 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	(frustration) pickles aren't funny. Sorry, Charlie. __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

03-15-2007, 10:01 AM	#34 (permalink)
Giant Hamburger Gastrolithuanian Location: low-velocity Earth orbit	Beware! The pickles watch and they know what you did.

03-17-2007, 09:50 PM	#35 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	Without ""webcams"" how could they? Raw, they couldn't. Pickled, they're dead. In a jar is more mysterious... Sir, your shoes! __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

03-19-2007, 11:37 AM	#38 (permalink)
Sticky	I should have known. Apparently mustard is in on it too. mmmm mustard! __________________ Sticky The Stickman

03-19-2007, 07:03 PM	#39 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	Mustard is always in on it. Is it grey poupon or french's or the colonel? (just ate some pickled garlic, sorry) __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

03-19-2007, 07:40 PM	#40 (permalink)
ngdawg peekaboo Location: on the back, bitch	On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar." Thomas Jefferson Jefferson pulling his pickle out of Aunt Sally's cellar? Oh yea....Thomas had it goin on... __________________ Don't blame me. I didn't vote for either of'em.