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Even though it's only technically accurate, I'm going to spend the next 24 hours making ruthless use of the excuse "Sorry--I was at a funeral all weekend."

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From:

sovay

"Sorry--I was at a funeral all weekend."

*hugs*

From:

choco_frosh

Like I said before...I'm not super in mourning, though I recognise that for many, many other people this was a devastating event, and I *am* sad about that.
But holywow, this was a weird weekend. And I got very little sleep.

Also, yikes, you're still up.

From:

sovay

But holywow, this was a weird weekend. And I got very little sleep.

You still get hugs for that!

Also, yikes, you're still up.

I'm just up, not still. I have a doctor's appointment.

From:

choco_frosh

You still get hugs for that!
Okay, that's reasonable, I guess. < hugs > back: we both need them.

I'm just up, not still. I have a doctor's appointment.
Okay, that's...better? I guess?

From:

sovay

Okay, that's...better? I guess?

I still slept about an hour, but it's different!

*hugs*

From:

choco_frosh

PS: For non-ringers, we're talking about this. Related performances are here and here.

Edited Date: 2022-03-21 07:26 pm (UTC)

$choco_frosh: Image of the Konradigasse (former {Hof-]Schreibergasse) in Konstanz, where I lived in 2005-6 (s'gasse)$

From:

choco_frosh

I'm on my THIRD cup of coffee, and I still can't face the day, so instead I'm reading grammatical analysis of Sumerian dad jokes.

(I feel like the analysis, while interesting, tends to obscure rather than emphasize the more important [and NOT grammatically obscure] point, which is "OMFG we have preserved examples of 'A X walks into a bar'" from the $%^$^%^*& Bronze Age")

From:

sovay

"OMFG we have preserved examples of 'A X walks into a bar'"

I mean, that is how I got to Groucho Marx.

From:

choco_frosh

I'd just somehow always assumed that the genre originated in the early twentieth century. I don't know why I thought that, though tbf I'm pretty that's when that's when the word "bar" took on the meaning "a public establishment that sells alcohol".
(Rather than its parent meaning of "the counter across which alcohol is dispensed in such an establishment"(which is still the more common meaning in Great Britain), much less the original meaning of a barrier (usu. one that doesn't actually cover the entire opening concerned) ahhh I'm now channeling the OP and I should go back to work...)

Edited Date: 2022-03-21 01:55 pm (UTC)

From:

sovay

I don't know why I thought that, though tbf I'm pretty that's when that's when the word "bar" took on the meaning "a public establishment that sells alcohol".

Well, the pun on Sumerian isn't on the bar, it's on what you do when you get there.

From:

choco_frosh

Oh, yeah. And there's all kinds of MODERN jokes in the genre that don't rely on a pun on the word bar. A hundred robots walk into a a bar and say "We'll have a hundred orders of Eggs Benedict served on a hubcap, hold the eggs." I just hadn't thought through the fact that hence there's no reason why there wouldn't have been jokes on the lines of, say, "Wiht cwom gongan, on win-tafern" through the ages.

Edited Date: 2022-03-21 02:23 pm (UTC)

From:

sovay

jokes on the lines of, say, "Wiht cwom gongan, on win-tafern"

That was new to me, thank you.

From:

choco_frosh

The ACTUAL "Wiht cwom gongan" is allegedly an adaptation of a fifth-c. joke in Latin.

[And yes, there's probably a way to get wynns in html, but I've spent too much time on this anyway.]

From:

sovay

an adaptation of a fifth-c. joke in Latin.

That one looks like proof that the mode of joke "What's brown and sticky?"/"A stick" is also older than dirt.