Why YSK: it doesn’t matter how original you might think you are, they have heard them before. Numerous times in fact. If you’re in the habit of making name-based jokes as soon as you meet someone you should stop. At best you’re mildly annoying the person, at worst you’re preventing what could have been a great friendship before it even begins.

Sincerely: someone named Jesse. (And yes - I know you wish you had my girl, also … Springsteen, really?)

  • janonymous@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    Name-based jokes should definitely die. Especially if it’s from people you just met!

    However, they are still above ethnicity-, body-, gender-based comedy for basically the same reasons.

      • janonymous@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        I get you, though. A mailman once made a completely inappropriate joke about my last name that I already had heard so many times and I was just dumbstruck. He was so excited and gaudy to let me in on it. I’m sure he thought I wouldn’t know that one. Hopefully he could see the life leave my body, when I monotonously answered “never heard that one before” and remembers that the next time he thinks of a joke about the name of a customer.