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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

...as we enter the 50th month of 2020

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Once in a decade joke

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

2020 one/won

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

So bad! Lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I think COVID was the real winner:-P.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Could you stop putting the punchline in the title?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Why do people care exactly? When you tell a joke in person, do you take your audience into another room to deliver the punchline?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

The joke feels more special when I'm waiting to expand the post and guessing what the punch line will be

I usually get it wrong, though that makes it funnier and more surprising

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It helps with the pacing when they're separated. When it's all in the title, it reads like a 5 year old telling a joke and not realizing there needs to be some natural pauses in the telling. Putting the punchline in the body ensures the reader puts the pause in the correct spot.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's two sentences man. How could you possibly not pause in the correct spot.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

theres no way to know where the punchline starts, meaning theres no way to know where the pause should be.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

There is a way to know where the punchline starts. It's after the question. The trick is to read the first sentence before the second sentence. That way you don't get spoiled before you read the setup.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This pun doesn't work in my accent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because you pronounce "one" differently than "won"? Or why?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, "one" rhymes with "gone" for me.