Tell you what, I sometimes feel like a caveman when I tell an old joke to a young person and their eyes go all static noise. Similarly, I watched the first Austin Powers movie upon the recommendation of a younger person who called it “a work of comedic genius.” I didn’t laugh at all the first 10 minutes and shut it off. The jokes weren’t funny to me, and the timing seemed off. It’s probably my fault, old fossil that I am.My teenage son asked about old style comedy, and I dug up an old video tape, “The Unknown Chaplin.” Its a 3-part American Master series with recently discovered film that shows how Chaplin constructed his early silent movies. My son was at first thrown by the lack of sound and color, the old clothing fashions, and the simplistic plots. But eventually he got into the swing of it all. I have other film of the old comedians of that time to show shim as time goes on..Is this a good thing, or will it make him an unsatisfied consumer of modern comedy crud? I know that’s begging the question.
When movies first came out on the internet, I loved them cause I could download them watch later and it was just like a DVD, fast forward, rewind, etc…now a days with the streaming it seems like they buffer all the times. If I don’t quite catch something and I back up to watch again, it buffers again for 10 seconds or so…quite annoying. No more internet movies for me until that problem can be solved and make it instant just like DVD’s are.
cdward over 9 years ago
A couple of thousand?
thirdguy over 9 years ago
Uhm, no.
Chithing Premium Member over 9 years ago
Sounds great! So, what’s the joke? C’mon Thor, you promised a joke.
Wren Fahel over 9 years ago
…or die…
Darque Hellmutt over 9 years ago
Laughter still loading … ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ …. please wait …..
1MadHat Premium Member over 9 years ago
OOOH! Am I sore! Gimme some bufferin….. 8^)
emptc12 over 9 years ago
Tell you what, I sometimes feel like a caveman when I tell an old joke to a young person and their eyes go all static noise. Similarly, I watched the first Austin Powers movie upon the recommendation of a younger person who called it “a work of comedic genius.” I didn’t laugh at all the first 10 minutes and shut it off. The jokes weren’t funny to me, and the timing seemed off. It’s probably my fault, old fossil that I am.My teenage son asked about old style comedy, and I dug up an old video tape, “The Unknown Chaplin.” Its a 3-part American Master series with recently discovered film that shows how Chaplin constructed his early silent movies. My son was at first thrown by the lack of sound and color, the old clothing fashions, and the simplistic plots. But eventually he got into the swing of it all. I have other film of the old comedians of that time to show shim as time goes on..Is this a good thing, or will it make him an unsatisfied consumer of modern comedy crud? I know that’s begging the question.
lambert2015 over 9 years ago
cubswin2016 over 9 years ago
I know what the joke means today and I’m still not laughing.
angelfiredragon over 9 years ago
When movies first came out on the internet, I loved them cause I could download them watch later and it was just like a DVD, fast forward, rewind, etc…now a days with the streaming it seems like they buffer all the times. If I don’t quite catch something and I back up to watch again, it buffers again for 10 seconds or so…quite annoying. No more internet movies for me until that problem can be solved and make it instant just like DVD’s are.
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace over 9 years ago
Good cricket
jtviper7 over 9 years ago
It’s better than Assperining
ChessPirate over 9 years ago
Pfft! All you have to do to get buff is take your clothes off…
xsintricks over 9 years ago
When I was active duty, buffering had a very different connotation.
Marv Premium Member 26 days ago
This proves that B.C. isn’t post-apocalyptic.