Why are there no banjos on Star Wars? Duh, it's the future.
What do you get when a banjo player sees his shadow? 6 more weeks of Foggy Mtn Breakdown.
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I don't appreciate some of these comments someone calling me a clown fish? Just because you didn't get what I was trying to say?go ahead,turn on your own,I have almost 50 years on the mandolin.zen master,perhaps,I am a okuden level(high position) Japanese swordsman among other things,,but I don't play the banjo......
Hey T.D., I don't think anyone was trying to hurt your feelings. I gotta say though, that I'm among the ones that don't get the joke.
Your first post sounded like a riddle, the 'question' part of a joke.
I'll admit that I'm not familiar with any Hudson River Banjo Throwing Contest. I'd still like to know the 'answer' part of the joke, even if I don't know the whole context.
So...what's the punchline? "I guess ya had to be there."?
Well, then, the future is now. We have this guy busking here. Yes, it has lights built in. Pretty scary!
T.D., some of those comments were guesses at a punch line, or attempts to understand what you were trying to say. The key phrase is "trying to say," which you yourself used. No try - do. You should know that if you have to explain a joke, it isn't very funny, or at best, it just isn't working. I've read your post several times, and it makes no sense to me. I suggest you rewrite it to make it clearer. Not trying to bust 'em, just trying to understand. Hey - we've got standards. They're pretty low, but we've got 'em.
PS: Here's the story about the banjo throwing contest. It was into a canal, not the Hudson, by the way. There are laws protecting the river from pollution.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
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"The paths of experimentation twist and turn through mountains of miscalculations, and often lose themselves in error and darkness!"
--Leslie Daniel, "The Brain That Wouldn't Die."
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This one here is one of my faves, not only because it's funny but because you can really draw it out if you need to
A man went to a brain store to get some brain for dinner. He sees a sign remarking on the quality of brain offered at this particular brain store. So he asks the butcher: "How much for fiddle player brain?"
"2 dollars an ounce."
"How much for mandolin player brain?"
"3 dollars an ounce."
"How much for guitar player brain?"
"4 dollars an ounce."
"How much for banjo player brain?"
"100 dollars an ounce."
"Why is banjo player brain so much more?"
"Do you know how many banjo players you need to kill to get one ounce of brain?"
Lost on the trails of The Deep North
Telling jokes is not my forte.Ive never been very good at it for some reason.my stand up career did not last very long at all ,so can we just move on....
Steve Martin (banjo player and author, btw) used to do a bit back in his early stand-up comedy days where he'd take his act out into the street and do impromptu material on whoever happened to be passing by. The audience would follow him out of the club and tag along. Unfortunately as he became more popular it got to be unwieldy and unsafe but no one would believe him when he told them the show was over. They thought it was just part of the act. "Really, it's over, you can go home now!" But they'd keep following him! It was hilarious and took him quite a while to drop that bit from his act.
A man comes to a pawn shop in San Francisco just to look around for interesting things. In the end he's been sold a dead rat. So he throws that dead rat over his shoulder and walks down the street. After a while he detects that a rat is following him. Then a second rat, then a third. From all the streets more and more rats come to follow him. So he gets frightened and starts to run. All the rats run after him. He comes down to Fisherman's Warf and throws the dead rat into the sea. All the other rats jump afterwards into the sea and drown. He hurries back to the pawn shop and shouts 'Do you have any banjos here?'
You have to be careful with this one. The punchline needs to reference Star Trek instead since, as all banjo pickers know, Star Wars is set "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wa...ning_crawl.jpg
Although, Star Trek: Voyager does contain a very subtle (though non-funny) joke actually made by picking a banjo:
http://www.banjohangout.org/blog/27408
why is it called a toothbrush instead of a teeth brush?
because a banjo player invented it.
Most people worry about their possessions being stolen. Banjos are so horrible that you instead worry about random people giving you a banjo.
Its like the accordion player who stopped at a diner, leaving his accordion in the trunk of his car, and after dinner when he came out, yep, he found his car had been broken into and seven more accordions were in there.
Welll ... I heard this as a banjo joke. And it's in the back seat, not the trunk, so it can be seen and thus incite the desired reaction from other banjo owners. No one would know it was in the trunk - well, if it got real hot in there and it were an accordion and it somehow started wheezing ...
But have it your way ...
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
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WOW! JB is getting more pedantic than I am.
Bill Snyder
Didn't know it was a competition. I'll step aside. It's all yours.
But a joke has to make a certain amount of sense. The less head-scratching on the part of the audience, the better.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
Furthering Mandolin Consciousness
Finders Keepers, my duo with the astoundingly talented and versatile Patti Rothberg. Our EP is finally done, and available! PM me, while they last!
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