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  • #20783
    — X —
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    I dare you to read it.
    And no cheating.

    http://longestjokeintheworld.com/

    You have to be odd, to be number one.
    -- Dr Seuss

    #20864
    Avatar photowv
    Participant

    I cheated and skipped down
    immediately.
    Just so you know.
    I fit into the
    skipped down and cheated
    immediately” category
    .

    w
    v

    #20980
    Avatar photoZooey
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    I read it all in one sitting, although I did skip ahead once to see how much more I had to go, and I considered bailing on it. But I didn’t read the end, and I didn’t skip.

    My wife came upon it (I left it on the screen), and I thought for sure she would skip to the end because she’s not a finisher in many respects. But she read it all the way through, too. I was in the room, sort of spying on her.

    #20982
    — X —
    Participant

    Someone turned me onto it too, and I did the scroll thing to see how much time I was gonna have to dedicate to it. Being that it was in such narrow margins, it looked like an insurmountable task. lol. It kept me intrigued once I started though, so I hung in there til the “end.”

    You suck, wv. Attention span of a moth.
    The shame you must feel…

    You have to be odd, to be number one.
    -- Dr Seuss

    #20992
    Avatar photowv
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    You suck, wv. Attention span of a moth.
    The shame you must feel…

    “Be a Moth, Enter the Flame!”
    Rumi

    #21011
    Avatar photoZooey
    Moderator

    the lesson of the moth

    i was talking to a moth
    the other evening
    he was trying to break into
    an electric light bulb
    and fry himself on the wires

    why do you fellows
    pull this stunt i asked him
    because it is the conventional
    thing for moths or why
    if that had been an uncovered
    candle instead of an electric
    light bulb you would
    now be a small unsightly cinder
    have you no sense

    plenty of it he answered
    but at times we get tired
    of using it
    we get bored with the routine
    and crave beauty
    and excitement
    fire is beautiful
    and we know that if we get
    too close it will kill us
    but what does that matter
    it is better to be happy
    for a moment
    and be burned up with beauty
    than to live a long time
    and be bored all the while
    so we wad all our life up
    into one little roll
    and then we shoot the roll
    that is what life is for
    it is better to be a part of beauty
    for one instant and then cease to
    exist than to exist forever
    and never be a part of beauty
    our attitude toward life
    is come easy go easy
    we are like human beings
    used to be before they became
    too civilized to enjoy themselves

    and before i could argue him
    out of his philosophy
    he went and immolated himself
    on a patent cigar lighter
    i do not agree with him
    myself i would rather have
    half the happiness and twice
    the longevity

    but at the same time i wish
    there was something i wanted
    as badly as he wanted to fry himself

    ~ Don Marquis, Archy & Mehitabel

    #21012
    — X —
    Participant

    Man < Moth

    Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money.
    Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.
    And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present;
    the result being that he does not live in the present or the future;
    he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.

    – The 14th Dalai Lama

    You have to be odd, to be number one.
    -- Dr Seuss

    #21020
    Avatar photowv
    Participant

    ==========
    Luna Moth….

    …I’d read the facts—the one week lifespan,
    The way, because they do not eat,

    The adults have no need of a mouth – by the time
    I found the third, late last night,

    High on the wall of my kitchen.
    I’d had too much to drink. I spoke to it

    As if it were my own Buddhist teacher
    Here to teach me nonattachment,

    The illusions of hunger, sex, rampant need.
    I sat with it until the sun rose, toasting

    Its quick beauty, then the restfulness I found
    In its body and then those bright-eyed,

    Translucent green wings that seemed
    To breathe more and more slowly before going

    Motionless. When I lifted it in my hand
    I knew just how little the space was

    Between myself and nothingness.

    Robert Cording
    ==============

    14th-Daili-Mothy-Ram

    #21105
    Avatar photonittany ram
    Moderator

    Mothra oh Mothra

    If we were to call for help

    Over time, over sea, like a wave

    You’d come

    Our guardian angel

    Mothra oh Mothra

    If we were to call for help

    Over time, over sea, like a wave

    You’d come

    Our guardian angel

    Mothra oh Mothra

    If we were to call for help

    Over time, over sea, like a wave

    You’d come

    Our guardian angel

    Mothra oh Mothra

    Of forgotten kindness and ruined spirits

    We pray for the people’s spirit as we sing

    This song of love

    Mothra oh Mothra

    If we were to call for help

    Over time, over sea, like a wave

    You’d come

    Our guardian angel

    mothra

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