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Monday, 9 July, 2007 by Slowpoke
                    
 Jokes that don't   
 work in Nethack.   
                    
      Today:        
                    
  Jerry Seinfeld    
                    
                    
                    
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@ "And why do they call it a 'building'? It looks like they're finished. Why isn't it a 'built'?"


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Average rating: Fair
Number of ratings: 17

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Antheridium July 9, 2007 02:34
First comment: 17 May, 2007 442 comments written
Evidently there's something I'm not getting... (so I'm not going to rate it.)

DaHusky July 9, 2007 06:58
First comment: 4 June, 2007 27 comments written
Building refers to the verb to build, building means it is being done.. So why do we call them buildings when they are done, and not built which would literally mean they are done
Antheridium July 9, 2007 07:13
First comment: 17 May, 2007 442 comments written
That's not what I didn't get.

More like, what's so funny about putting this in Nethack.
Grognor July 9, 2007 09:32
First comment: 4 April, 2007 1161 comments written
The joke is that it's not funny?

Not funny.
Dav July 9, 2007 15:59
First comment: 26 June, 2004 147 comments written
Agree with Grognor.
ThomasLB July 9, 2007 16:51
First comment: 7 September, 2006 13 comments written
The artist is making a statement about the importance of context to humor.

And man, I hope this isn't the first in a series...
Slowpoke July 9, 2007 17:08
First comment: 27 February, 2007 239 comments written
I gave this to Dion with the instructions to publish it only if he ran out of submissions from everyone else. If that's the case, then the real meaning of this comic is: Everyone, get busy!

ThomasLB: No, it's the SECOND in a series - a takeoff on a recent one authored by another - and the last as far as I am concerned. If someone wishes to inflict a Benny Hill continuation, that's their business. And no, there's no deep meaning to it. Just the nonsense of juxtaposition - Jerry Seinfeld blithely performing his standup routine involving observational humor even though he's been transported into the Nethack realm. His joke doesn't work - the joke about it doesn't work - that's the joke, as Grognor understood (and disliked).
Slowpoke July 9, 2007 17:23
First comment: 27 February, 2007 239 comments written
BTW, to save anyone the trouble of searching, http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20070626 is the Batman comic that previously involved "Jokes that don't work in Nethack" a couple of weeks ago. My peculiar sense of humor brought me to "oh, you wanna see a joke that REALLY doesn't work?"
Dion July 9, 2007 22:34
First comment: 2 February, 2004 100 comments written
What a fantastic distribution of ratings, given the comments.
videocrazy July 10, 2007 22:24
First comment: 25 March, 2007 10 comments written
I think the joke was that there are no building in nethack
Antheridium July 11, 2007 07:09
First comment: 17 May, 2007 442 comments written
No, there are buildings, if not very many of them. (Minetown, some of the QuestMany, possibly most, Tours are organized as a Quest. This
is like a large-scale treasure hunt, with clues scattered
all over the continent, a few false leads, Mystical Masters
as game-show hosts, and the Dark Lord and the Terrain to
make the Quest interestingly difficult. [...]
In order to be assured of your future custom, the Management
has a further Rule: Tourists, far from being rewarded for
achieving their Quest Object, must then go on to conquer
the Dark Lord or set about Saving the World, or both. And
why not? By then you will have had a lot of practice in
that sort of thing and, besides, the Quest Object is usually
designed to help you do it.
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levels, the Castle, to name a few.)
Fathead July 11, 2007 18:51
First comment: 1 April, 2006 1136 comments written
No! Wait! There was no audience!
1338h4x July 24, 2007 19:35
First comment: 19 September, 2006 102 comments written
I thought it said "Jokes that don't work in NetHack", not "Jokes that don't work, period". I like the idea, but none of these are any good.
Bulding Hawkes July 11, 2008 14:20
First comment: 11 July, 2008 1 comments written
I rate it good to try and bump the ratings to be more even.

I actually think it is shit, but hey.
grue August 10, 2008 03:00
First comment: 10 August, 2008 2 comments written
hehe The most funny part about this is that (at time of posting) there wereIn 1573, the Parliament of Dole published a decree, permitting
the inhabitants of the Franche-Comte to pursue and kill a
were-wolf or loup-garou, which infested that province,
"notwithstanding the existing laws concerning the chase."
The people were empowered to "assemble with javelins,
halberds, pikes, arquebuses and clubs, to hunt and pursue the
said were-wolf in all places where they could find it, and to
take, burn, and kill it, without incurring any fine or other
penalty." The hunt seems to have been successful, if we may
judge from the fact that the same tribunal in the following
year condemned to be burned a man named Giles Garnier, who
ran on all fours in the forest and fields and devoured little
children, "even on Friday." The poor lycanthrope, it appears,
had as slight respect for ecclesiastical feasts as the French
pig, which was not restrained by any feeling of piety from
eating infants on a fast day.
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3 ratings in all 5 categories. so it's a rainbow.
Newtkiller November 16, 2008 01:28
First comment: 28 October, 2008 127 comments written
Okay. I break the rainbow.
Toby Bartels February 3, 2009 22:58
First comment: 11 August, 2007 83 comments written
Ha, ha! I know how you rated, Newtkiller! And if you remember how you rated, then you know how I rated, but nobody else does.

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