cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40397983

We all make jokes that don’t land, but sometimes we make jokes that should’ve been funny if anyone understood it.

Maybe it was too subtle, or too nuanced like a joke based off work-jargon.

Whatever it was, what joke did you say that should’ve had people in stitches but… didn’t land?

Now is your time!

  • daannii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    15 hours ago

    I make 3d models for 3d printing. Usually cute shit.

    I made these little “snow baby” decorations. And I took a photo of them.
    One is holding a brick that says “to ices” on it. The other is holding a Molotov cocktail. Literally no one. Not a single one of my friends who knows I would 100% pull this, has noticed.

    Not a single one.

    I posted it twice just to try to get people to look at it again .

    Here you are.

    It’s not very funny if I have to tell people, you know?

    • nixon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      This happened about 16 years ago.

      One of my buddies is a semi well-known photographer who was editing some photographs on his laptop while he was over at my place. One of the pictures he was editing showed the feet/toes of one of his subjects prominently, not the focus of the shot but they were easily visible. I knew he was going to post the picture to his socials once he was done as he did that for most of his shoots for marketing purposes so I joked, “I wonder if anyone would notice if you were to add an extra toe to that persons foot.”

      So he photoshopped an extra toe onto one of the subjects feet and posted it. There were many comments about the photo but no one has ever pointed out the sixth toe on the most forward foot of the subject.

      Every few years I check-in on that photo to see if anyone has said anything yet about it, still nothing. I do like/thumbs up that photo each time and then wait a week to remove my like/thumbs-up as an inside joke so he gets the notification from me on that photo as a notice that I am still keeping tabs on the outcome of my suggested joke.

      In response he does the same thing to a very old profile photo of myself that I hate on an old social account I no longer use but check in with every couple years.

      Him and I only get to catch up every several years when our paths cross but we communicate more through that thumbs/liking joke on those two photos more often, which is kinda fun.