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My mom, for some unknown reason, bought a copy of Reader's Digest last week. there's a "humourous" anecdote that we can't figure out. We just don't know how it's funny. My parents AND I both read it multiple times. Can anyone help? Here it is:
I'm not saying we have too little willpower in our country, but I am getting worried. Recently, I passed a sign outside our local elementary school that urged: 'Join us for National TV-Turnoff Week! April 26-27'.
Oh shit. I just got it.
Oh.
Well, this is embarrassing.
Heck no techno | chitchat | stuff.. 
20:56, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
- Most of the best comedians steal their jokes from the same source, Reader's Digest. I think that was how Jay Leno, Milton Berle, David Letterman, and Jim Carrey got to be so funny. The only original comedian of the last hundred years or so was Andy Kaufman and most of his jokes, nobody really found funny until he finally faked his death but died of lung cancer cancer anyway and nobody really believes that he died, but he did die. --Lt. Sir Orion Blastar (talk) 01:45, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
- Andy Kaufman!? I heard he was still alive! - P.M., WotM, & GUN, Sir Led Balloon
(Tick Tock) (Contribs) 02:25, Mar 24
- Yeah I was joking about Andy Kaufman being dead. Since he faked his death in 1985, nobody wants to hire him anymore, so he works as a waiter for the rest of his life. The funniest waiter in the USA, but still was a waiter working for tips at a bar called Shenanigans, but sometimes he moonlights as Tony Clifton and does shows in Las Vegas, only because nobody knows that Tony Clifton is just Andy Kaufman in a mask with makeup. Tony Clifton is paying off the debt that Andy borrowed to play in Carnegy Hall, because Andy Kaufman can't pay it back because he is dead. --Lt. Sir Orion Blastar (talk) 03:51, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
- Andy Kaufman? I hear he went to the moon. -- §. | WotM | PLS | T | C | A 04:00, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
- No no no, that's just a dumb conspiracy theory! Everyone knows the government is holding him captive in Area 51! - P.M., WotM, & GUN, Sir Led Balloon (Tick Tock) (Contribs) 04:53, Mar 24
- Some people think that Andy Kaufman is really Santino Marella with plastic surgery and kept up his feud with Jerry "The King" Lawler. But Santino is just an Andy Kaufman wannabe. The real Andy Kaufman sometimes posts on the Internet from time to time but works as a waiter because nobody really believes that he is Andy Kaufman and is still alive. --Lt. Sir Orion Blastar (talk) 03:30, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
- He's opening for Falco on his comeback tour. Sir Modusoperandi Boinc! 08:42, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
- Falco really IS dead.
Heck no techno | chitchat | stuff.. 
15:18, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
- Why must you fill the space between us with lies? Sir Modusoperandi Boinc! 16:22, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
- Uh, it's a known fact that Amadeus rocked him so hard he DIED. Heck no techno | chitchat | stuff.. 21:38, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
- Uh, it's a known fact that Amadeus rocked him so hard he DIED.
- Why must you fill the space between us with lies? Sir Modusoperandi Boinc! 16:22, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
- Falco really IS dead.
- No no no, that's just a dumb conspiracy theory! Everyone knows the government is holding him captive in Area 51! - P.M., WotM, & GUN, Sir Led Balloon
- Andy Kaufman? I hear he went to the moon. -- §. | WotM | PLS | T | C | A 04:00, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
- Yeah I was joking about Andy Kaufman being dead. Since he faked his death in 1985, nobody wants to hire him anymore, so he works as a waiter for the rest of his life. The funniest waiter in the USA, but still was a waiter working for tips at a bar called Shenanigans, but sometimes he moonlights as Tony Clifton and does shows in Las Vegas, only because nobody knows that Tony Clifton is just Andy Kaufman in a mask with makeup. Tony Clifton is paying off the debt that Andy borrowed to play in Carnegy Hall, because Andy Kaufman can't pay it back because he is dead. --Lt. Sir Orion Blastar (talk) 03:51, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
- Andy Kaufman!? I heard he was still alive! - P.M., WotM, & GUN, Sir Led Balloon
- Well, it's a change from Mahna Mahna, anyway... Sir Modusoperandi Boinc! 21:56, 25 March 2008 (UTC)