My profile login | | Directory | Search | FAQs | Board home   Printer-friendly view   » Ship of Fools   » Things we did   » The Laugh Judgment   » Roadside witnessing Email this page to a friend or enemy.     Source: (consider it) Thread: Roadside witnessing Simon Editor # 1 Posted                           Joke submitted by CatCov: A priest and a pastor were standing by the side of the road with a sign reading, "THE END IS NEAR! Turn yourself around now before it's too late!" "Leave us alone, you religious nuts!" a driver yelled, not even slowing down for the sharp turn in the road. From around the curve, the two men of God heard screeching tires and a big splash. The pastor turns to the priest and asks, "Do you think the sign should just say, "Bridge Out"? [ 12. August 2005, 17:19: Message edited by: Simon ] Poll information This poll contains 2 question(s). 81 user(s) have voted. You can't view the results of this poll without voting.     -------------------- Eternal memory Posts: 3787 | From: London | Registered: Mar 2001  |  IP: Logged Chorister Completely Frocked # 473 Posted                          Nice one! I think this works because most of us, if we're honest would drive straight past a sign like that - if not yelling out the window, then we would at least ignore it. It reminds me of a cartoon where Tom and Jerry (or whoever) try to outfox and outwit each other, and I can just imagine one of them holding up such a sign in the sure and certain knowledge of the splash that is to follow -------------------- Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change. Posts: 34626 | From: Cream Tealand | Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged KenWritez Shipmate # 3238 Posted                        It's lame. Not funny, not unrestful, it's overly artificial and convoluted. -------------------- "The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin', Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard to be a shepherd." --Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction My blog: http://oxygenofgrace.blogspot.com Posts: 11102 | From: Left coast of Wonderland, by the rabbit hole | Registered: Aug 2002  |  IP: Logged Atmospheric Skull Antlered Bone-Visage # 4513 Posted                        It would work better as a sight gag. Describing it involves too many words, and loses all the punchiness. -------------------- Surrealistic Mystic. Posts: 371 | From: Bristol, UK | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Ariel Shipmate # 58 Posted                          It took me a few minutes to get this one. Partly because "Bridge Out" isn't something I've ever heard anyone say, and partly because it just seemed like a non sequitur when I had expected the characters to be giving the usual message about repentance. But I've got it now. Funny? Er, no, sorry. Any joke you have to puzzle out for a while loses its impact and ceases to become funny, as does one that you've analysed. Posts: 25445 | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged Matrix Shipmate # 3452 Posted                       I think this one is amusing, and says a lot about the place of religious opinion in the wider sociey. I like that the humour stems from society's perceptions of religious language, and also many christians' own inability to speak clearly. The gag would have been improved by removing the explanatory line about the screech of tires and the splash so that it reads thus: A priest and a pastor were standing by the side of the road with a sign reading, "THE END IS NEAR! Turn yourself around now before it's too late!" "Leave us alone, you religious nuts!" a driver yelled, not even slowing down for the sharp turn in the road. The pastor turns to the priest and asks, "Do you think the sign should just say, "Bridge Out"? M -------------------- Maybe that's all a family really is; a group of people who miss the same imaginary place. - Garden State Posts: 3847 | From: The courts of the King | Registered: Oct 2002  |  IP: Logged Captain Kevo Apprentice # 9788 Posted                        I have never heard this one, and I might agree that the version without the splash and screech is better; however, isn't this sort of a sad commentary about our efforts to spread God to the world? How much of our message is ignored because of the language (physical and verbal) that we choose to employ? Now I've gone from amusing and offensive to convicting...tut..tut Posts: 2 | From: Austin Texas, USA | Registered: Jul 2005  |  IP: Logged Procrastinus Ship's Fortean # 9915 Posted                    It would work better if it was pithier (is that a word ?). So their sign should just be 'The end is nigh' - then perhaps after it should be 'maybe we should get a better sign.' Also, I agree, is a bit of a commentary on the effectiveness (or not) of button-holing people in the street to try and convert. [ 07. August 2005, 08:44: Message edited by: Procrastinus ] -------------------- Dare to be wise; begin. Posts: 198 | From: Imaginary Future | Registered: Aug 2005  |  IP: Logged Zeke Ship's Inquirer # 3271 Posted                        This one made me laugh out loud all alone in the house. I think part of it depends on the way religious people are so often misunderstood, and also how a few Christians so often make the rest of us look bad. These two men of the cloth have a truly immediate and tangible danger to warn of, and the reputation of Christians, and especially of their leaders, is so bad with this man that he is not only sure their message is wrong, he is actually extremely rude about it.(I hope that's enough commas for everybody ) Then he gets punished. It reminds me of the one with the...no, it may come up later and I don't want to ruin it. -------------------- No longer the Bishop of Durham ----------- If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it? --Benjamin Franklin Posts: 5259 | From: Deep in the American desert | Registered: Sep 2002  |  IP: Logged Kelly Alves Bunny with an axe # 2522 Posted                        It got a snort from me. It made me think of a couple people I know who just cannot for the life of them turn off the christianese, and who (like the goofs in the joke) could not for the life of them understand why communication was so hard. -------------------- I cannot expect people to believe “ Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.” Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003. Posts: 35076 | From: Pura Californiana | Registered: Mar 2002  |  IP: Logged Halo Shipmate # 6933 Posted                        This one made me laugh more than the others- I like the play on the way people tend to ignore cliched signs like that. Maybe I will listen next time I see one? Posts: 625 | From: The Land of the Long White Cloud | Registered: May 2004  |  IP: Logged Dubitante Shipmate # 10015 Posted                        How do I submit religious jokes? I've got a couple that may cause the odd snort of laughter as well as a bit of offence. -------------------- "The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity." Posts: 343 | From: London UK | Registered: Aug 2005  |  IP: Logged Pyx_e Quixotic Tilter # 57 Posted                       Hosting Dubitante; if I recall we are beyond the submissions date. I will check with Simon and let you know. Later ....... 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