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Old 02-15-2007, 06:53 AM   #1 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 02-15-2007, 07:01 AM   #2 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 02-15-2007, 11:25 AM   #3 (permalink)
 
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I don't know...I have never heard a pickel tell a joke.
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Old 02-15-2007, 01:28 PM   #4 (permalink)
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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?
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Old 02-15-2007, 02:08 PM   #5 (permalink)
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WHO DO YOU WORK FOR?

THERE IS NOT ENOUGH TIME!

WHY ARE YOU FUNNY?

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Old 02-15-2007, 03:25 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Is that a pickle producing electricity?

That's a kind of funny, inasmuchas we can be tickled by the universe.
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Old 02-15-2007, 03:35 PM   #7 (permalink)
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WHY ARE YOU SMILING?
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Old 02-15-2007, 03:53 PM   #8 (permalink)
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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
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Old 02-15-2007, 03:59 PM   #9 (permalink)
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(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!)
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Old 02-15-2007, 06:04 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Old 02-15-2007, 06:13 PM   #11 (permalink)
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i am sorry but.........no........i cannot explain.


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

.........yes.......fetish.
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Old 02-16-2007, 06:07 AM   #12 (permalink)
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Old 02-16-2007, 06:41 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Watermelon pickles aren't nearly as suggestive. Or are they?
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Old 02-16-2007, 06:43 AM   #14 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 02-16-2007, 10:33 AM   #15 (permalink)
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mmmm...pickles and beer!
more beer, more pickles, more beer, hey, what IS that?
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Old 02-16-2007, 01:11 PM   #16 (permalink)
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I am inscrutable

do not attempt to scrut me.
that's a left-handed putter...
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Old 02-17-2007, 09:09 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Manufacturing comedy, one cucumber at a time.
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Old 02-17-2007, 09:25 PM   #18 (permalink)
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I think it really starts with the cornichon.
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Old 02-18-2007, 01:56 AM   #19 (permalink)
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Hey, maybe it has something to do with the pickle juice.

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Old 02-18-2007, 04:01 AM   #20 (permalink)
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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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Old 02-18-2007, 08:13 AM   #21 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 02-18-2007, 08:34 AM   #22 (permalink)
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My younger son tells me that pickles are funny because Ryan is gay.
Yeah, I don't get it either...
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Old 02-18-2007, 09:12 AM   #23 (permalink)
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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.
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.
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Old 02-18-2007, 09:39 AM   #24 (permalink)
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what about the olive.

like.......where is the love man.
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Old 02-18-2007, 09:48 AM   #25 (permalink)
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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.

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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.
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Old 02-19-2007, 08:53 AM   #26 (permalink)
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I had some dill, I had some cardamom,
but I didn't have a cucumber, damnit!

-heh?
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Old 02-19-2007, 09:25 AM   #27 (permalink)
 
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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?
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Old 02-19-2007, 09:42 AM   #28 (permalink)
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Is that available in the United States of America?
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Old 02-19-2007, 06:10 PM   #29 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 02-20-2007, 12:06 PM   #30 (permalink)
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...even if you'd be afraid to eat it.
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Old 03-15-2007, 03:54 AM   #31 (permalink)
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that's a left-handed putter...

well, it's a left handed Pickle!
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Old 03-15-2007, 07:37 AM   #32 (permalink)
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(frustration)

pickles aren't funny. Sorry, Charlie.
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Old 03-15-2007, 07:48 AM   #33 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 03-15-2007, 10:01 AM   #34 (permalink)
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Beware! The pickles watch

and they know what you did.
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Old 03-17-2007, 09:50 PM   #35 (permalink)
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Without ""webcams"" how could they?
Raw, they couldn't. Pickled, they're dead. In a jar is more mysterious...
Sir, your shoes!
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Old 03-19-2007, 08:51 AM   #36 (permalink)
 
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Quote:
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Sticky... that is one brilliant find.
Thanks, I could not believe that one myself.


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Old 03-19-2007, 10:02 AM   #37 (permalink)
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dude........you don't know?


it's the work of the pickle............
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Old 03-19-2007, 11:37 AM   #38 (permalink)
 
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I should have known.
Apparently mustard is in on it too.


mmmm mustard!
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Old 03-19-2007, 07:03 PM   #39 (permalink)
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Mustard is always in on it.
Is it grey poupon or french's or the colonel?

(just ate some pickled garlic, sorry)
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Old 03-19-2007, 07:40 PM   #40 (permalink)
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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."
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Jefferson pulling his pickle out of Aunt Sally's cellar? Oh yea....Thomas had it goin on...
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