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.

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.

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

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?

WHO DO YOU WORK FOR?
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THERE IS NOT ENOUGH TIME!

WHY ARE YOU FUNNY?

Is that a pickle producing electricity?

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

Ask this man...
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WHY ARE YOU SMILING?

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

(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!)

I am inscrutable
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do not attempt to scrut me.

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


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

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

I relish the day when you understand.

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

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.

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

that's a left-handed putter...

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Manufacturing comedy, one cucumber at a time.

I think it really starts with the cornichon.http://a1692.g.akamai.net/f/1692/204....thumbnail.jpg

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

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

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

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

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.

what about the olive.

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

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.


No doubt it's my horrible bowling form.

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

-heh?

PICKLE PUSS PICKLE FLAVORED BUBBLE GUM
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Pickle Puss?
Bubble Gum?

Hmm, what does it look like to you?

Is that available in the United States of America?

Sticky... that is one brilliant find.

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

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

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

well, it's a left handed Pickle!:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

(frustration)

pickles aren't funny. Sorry, Charlie.

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

Beware! The pickles watch
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and they know what you did.

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

Here you go. They are watching.


Thanks, I could not believe that one myself.


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............

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

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

(just ate some pickled garlic, sorry)

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...

(LMAO) He had so much going on that it still is and is bound to continue...
I'm kind of glad that he liked pickles, too.

While that was hilarious, threadwise, does it address why pickles are funny?

Vlasic submarine slammed two gerkhins into our side, chief. It was comin' back, from the island of Oversized Picnic Foods, just delivered the mustard. The Hiroshima mustard. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn't see the first pickle for about a half an hour. Dill. Thirteen footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, chief? You tell by lookin' from the stem to the other end. Well, we didn't know. `Cause our mustard mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, chief. The pickles come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know it's... kinda like `ol squares in battle like you see on a calendar, like the battle of Waterloo. And the idea was, the pickle would go for nearest man and then he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the pickle would go away. Sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that pickle, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a pickle, he's got...lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and rip you to pieces.
Y'know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men! I don't know how many pickles, maybe a thousand! I don't know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin' chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player, Onion's mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up and down in the water, just like a kinda top. Up ended. Well... he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ketchupa saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. He was a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper, anyway he saw us and come in low. And three hours later a big fat PB&J comes down and start to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened? Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on mayo again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the pickles took the rest, June the 29, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the mustard.

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I love pickles. They always make me laugh. But only the dill ones in all forms. Sweet pickles are enough to make my face turn inside out. Except the Sweet Pickles book series. Did anyone else have those as a kid? Nasty Nightengale and X-Rating Xerus were my favorites.
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I used to have to have a pickle after dessert when I was a kid because I couldn't stand having the sweet taste left in my mouth.
My family always laughed and hid the pickle jar from me.
That was not nice.

This is over the top. I couldn't stop laughing.:thumbsup:

hahaha I almost posted that dancing pickle the other day but decided against it.. I crack up so much when I watch it.

fredweena! Your family hid the pickle jar from you?

that's just not nice at all. the humour of pickles was meant to be shared.

i trust you had them liquidated for their insolence.

Who better to execute the dirty deed than:

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Life was sweet for Pickleman. He seemed to relish his life as a harbinger of justice. That was until he met Dill. Getting mixed up in her embrace turned his whole life sour.

Chit, Charla, dill's a wonderful herb. I can't believe you even thought that.
Most pickles are only funny because of the dill they've absorbed.

:confused:

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Just a reminder to fear the pickle... it is after your manhood.

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Pickles are funny because they are neither raw nor cooked. Honest to god, that's what it is. Being neither, they are liminal, and liminal substances are either funny (Pickles, Playdough, sexual secretions) or revolting (vomit, feces, Balut) or both (mud, farts).

Now stick that in your Levi-Strauss and smoke it.

mmm liminal goodness... now you can have it both ways.

Perhaps Giant Hamburgers issue with rats has started to leak into other threads...

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Careful, my friends.

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Some girls really love their pickles.

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yeah yeah ...size matters

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And I know this is not the "complaint thread" but I'm disappointed that all this talk of pickles is focusing on the cucumber and ignoring the vast variety of other very fine tasting pickled delicacies. So now I'm going out to have some pickled meat, pickled eggs, and other pickled vegetables.

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For me it is the pickling of the humble cucumber that bring out the humour. But the fact is, you can pickle just about anything as long as you have the right spices...

http://www.fiery-foods.com/dave2/ima...ices_small.jpg

But as you can see, the spices themselves have no humour. They are just dry ingredients.

To be truly humourous you must add water to make a salty brine...

Brine is the little known fifth humor.

I've got a fifth of good humour right here...

http://www.dtcscotch.com/images/prod...ttlehill_b.jpg

I've been pickled a few times on very good Scotch.

Pickles are funny because they feel good.

I would like to feel a pickle ...or have some pickle juice

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How would you like to feel that pickle, BN? Tell us more about this fixation.

Bring on the sweet mixed!

close your eyes, run your fingers over that hard long green vegetable (I don't like soft pickles usually, unless they are chopped up and on a hotdog), feel the texture, taste it, the sour tanginess ...or if you prefer sweet pickles, that tangy sweetness; bite it, hear and feel the crisp break of the skin and the sudden penetration of your teeth into the meat of the matter, pickle that is; don't swallow it right away, chew it and roll it around in your mouth to enjoy every last bit of savory flavor and texture. How's that, jewels?

Mmmmmmmm yummmy! :p

Dill or half-sour for me, please ...

Yeah, where is she?

Maybe someone should tell her that there are pickles here. And collages. And something else in French that means "joy in living"

Maybe I'm talking out of my ass.

Perhaps this is why pickles are funny...

Joie d' Viniagre?

Good stuff :thumbsup: I always get compliments on my perfume. :hyper:

Your smilie looks like it's grasping a rather pale pickle.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...picklefork.jpg

this is one powerful pickle fork...

You know you need a powerful fork when you have a giant pickle...

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I wonder if Giant Hamburger knows this giant pickle? I wonder if he knows the beauty holding the pickle?

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she is pretty sweet..........



(damn,why doesn`t my Q mark work any moreÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ............what the fuck is thatÉÉÉÉÉ)

Fly, you got a quebecian keyboard????
Whip it with your pickle:thumbsup:

Fly! Indeed mixed is sweet...

As for your question mark... stop smoking cucumbers and start pickling them instead.

fly may be too pickled for that.........

And some peeps are deathly afraid of pickles, sober:

jewels, i think ive posted that in the past.

its strange.

her freaking out freaks me out. it makes no sense!

Some are a feared of the pickle but in the end... it's all comedy.

Did anybody decide why pickles are funny, yet?

No definitive answer is forthcoming... more research is needed!!!

Since I love pickles, I love laughing with and at pickles, I am only proposing this alternative theory in order to explore potentially lesser known reasons for pickle funniness. Maybe this could be the "Halton Arp Cosmological Theory of Funny Pickles":

what if they aren't really funny? what if it only appears that people are smiling and laughing but it's really from the sour tangy bitterness making us pucker?