Mon, 2009-04-20 22:39
Apropos my 4/20 pot/booze day post.
“It’s unpleasantly like being drunk”
“What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?”
“You ask a glass of water.”
This is an excellent example, by the way, of a set-substitution incongruity joke as outlined in John Allen Paluos’ Mathematics and Humor: The Study of the Logic of Humor.
Found at the bottom of the page (not in a post) at Christie Lynn’s Observations of a Nerd.
Submitted by 2871 (not verified) on Fri, 2009-04-24 09:02.
You or she probably said elsewhere but that's a direct quote from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy when Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent are transported onto the Vorgon ship. (gawd the stuff that's in my brain.)