First off, WELCOME if you're a newcomer, or anoldcomer, recently returned; I appreciate everyonein this echo -- you're why I bother for as little as they pay me! YOU are worth it! (sure, that counts as my objoke inclusion for this post, if I want it to be it ;) )

Sta hi, share your favourite joke, rated PG-14, where you're from,. & why that place is funny; maybe a funny chjildhood story from uyour own childhood or someone you were close to,growing up? Jump in, have fun; reply to any post you read in here, should you feel the urge -- nothing you see is private. Do include funny conytent n every post, though, please (we call that an Obligatory Joke(ObJoke for short), when you add in an extra bit of funny to make up for off-topic chat content)

Okay, enough intro, on to the stae of this posting. . .

Rules, Regulations, & Guidelines for Fidonet's FUNNY Jokes and Stories echo

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Echo purpose: to hear something repeated you've just said.

Note all are labeled #1 as they're all important --

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& being funny)

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#1: The End (or is it?)

Now because we don't even excise ourselves from the ObJoke requirement: Something thematic for the day

My resolution is to read more...
...So I turned on the subtitles for my TV.

-=-
Knock Knock.
Who's there?
Radio.
Radio who?
Radio not, its a new year. HAPPY NEW YEAR 2023! (don't forget to write that now, instead of 2022!)

-=-
This New Year I resolve to be less awesome...

Since that is really the only thing I do in excess.

-=-
Q: What New Year's resolution should a basketball player never make? A: To travel more.

--- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-6
* Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)

Hello George!

** On Saturday 31.12.22 - 21:11, George Pope wrote to All:

Note all are labeled #1 as they're all important --

#1: You must (re)read these every time you see them..
#1: even if a rule, below, seems phrased humorously (even
#1: Have fun or GTFO

etc..

Cute.

My resolution is to read more...
...So I turned on the subtitles for my TV.

That's actually pretty good.

I enabled CC briefly for someone on their TV who said they
don't read, and said.. "There you go. Now you can read!"



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../|ug

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My resolution is to read more...
...So I turned on the subtitles for my TV.

That's actually pretty good.
I enabled CC briefly for someone on their TV who said they
don't read, and said.. "There you go. Now you can read!"

That only works if you also disable the volume!

One olds lady was watching the news on their new TV, on which she had accidentally clicked on the mute button. . .

Her hubby walked in, saw the new anchor's lips moving & the word "Mute" at the bottom of the screen & remarked, "My, how those disabled news folk try hard!"

--- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-6
* Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)

Hello George Pope!

** On Wednesday 18.01.23 - 08:11, George Pope wrote to August Abolins:

My resolution is to read more...
...So I turned on the subtitles for my TV.

That's actually pretty good.
I enabled CC briefly for someone on their TV who said they
don't read, and said.. "There you go. Now you can read!"

That only works if you also disable the volume!

On that tv (and on mine as well), enabling CC automatically
mutes the speaker.

One olds lady was watching the news on their new TV, on which she had accidentally clicked on the mute button. . .

Her hubby walked in, saw the new anchor's lips moving & the word "Mute"
at the bottom of the screen & remarked, "My, how those disabled news
folk try hard!"

That could qualify to be a Gary Larson cartoon if that could be
emulated.

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../|ug

--- OpenXP 5.0.51
* Origin: (1:396/45.29)

That only works if you also disable the volume!

On that tv (and on mine as well), enabling CC automatically
mutes the speaker.

How do you run it so both hearing and non-hearing can enjoy it at the same time?

I still recall getting a new cable digital box & wondering why someone was describing the stuff I was looking right at -- then realized it has a control for the blind who want to /watch/, get this. . teleVISION.

I killed that in a hurry, as it was annoying me, but I must have the CC on nowadays, & don't like when watching TV I've downloaded, trying to follow the story without hearing everything -- Hollyweird loves to have people whisper for effect, but these actors today learned on sets, not on stage, so don't know how to project a whisper properly.

One old lady was watching the news on their new TV, on which she had
accidentally clicked on the mute button. . .
Her hubby walked in, saw the new anchor's lips moving & the word "Mute"
at the bottom of the screen & remarked, "My, how those disabled news
folk try hard!"

That could qualify to be a Gary Larson cartoon if that could be
emulated.

I might've read it in a cartoon, actually. A two-panel one, though, IIRC, & I likely don't (IIRCAIPD as a new TLA?)

Q: What do you call Minecraft on Mute? A: Mimecraft

First rule of ôMute Club:ö
Nobody talks about ôMute Clubö

Yesterday, I found out I was mute!
I can't tell you how angry this makes me!

--- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-6
* Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)