We're Moving

           I cannot do this blog much longer, so we are being moved.  We are moving to a new more interactive joke experience by The Snicker House.  In this new experience anyone and everyone can post jokes and comment on them.  I shall occasionally check the site to make sure everything is not inappropriate.  Here is the link to this new experience: http://padlet.com/wall/the_snicker_house.  I hope you enjoyed The Snicker House blog, and hope you will visit again, and visit our new site.  Thank you, and please keep telling jokes.

I'm Back

  I've known that you've missed me.  And I am truly touched that none of bothered to comment it and let me know.  You guys are the bet followers I ever had. :D

  I've been bored lately really bored, and I'm about to get even more bored!  School's starting, so it's back to Harvard for me.  I have been gone for about 4 months.  That's a long time.  I think you deserve to know why.  I had to start a new blog about ranting for my English class, and ranting is hard, it took me a ton of posts to get the hang of it.  The Snicker Book will not be ready for a long time so you'll have to hold your horses on that being ready.  A story for you viewers to read, will be posted in a couple of days... Maybe. Anyhow I've decided to come back to you all.  So as you can see I'm back!!!  Not that any of you care.

I'll Be Back

  I am working very hard on tests, studies, and the ever important, Snicker Book.  As, well as starting a new blog called The Ranting Elephant, which you should check out.  As a result, I won't be posting for a while.  Though you can still read my posts on The Ranting Elephant, by clicking here.  Farewell, for now, for you shall know when I'll be posting again on this blog, in an announcement post, on The Ranting Elephant.

Be Wise About What You Joke About

 

  I've spent a lot of time teaching you how to tell jokes, what jokes are good to tell, and some good genres of jokes.  Yet, I've never told you about the most important aspect of jokes...Telling appropriate jokes.  I'm not talking about telling school appropriate and mature jokes(though, you should), I'm talking about jokes that make fun of someone, or insult an aspect of someone's life.  This will obviously hurt somebody's feelings, which will either result in them not talking or interacting with you for or long time, or forever.  You should never joke about someone's religion, beliefs, habits, feelings, and personal identity.  In other words, you shouldn't make fun of someone, because of who they are.  In fact you shouldn't make fun of someone at all!

  

  A common form of making fun of somebody, is gossip, or rumors.  The facts that arise in gossip, are usually either not true, or a deep dark secret that the gossiper found out through vicious, or mysterious means.  This is not joking(though the gossiper may think so), it is just plain bullying.  And that is not right at all.  So be wise, and joke nice, and we will all live happily ever after, because if you do you shall not pass onto this blog!

Gandalf is enforcing that rule!

Important Notice

  All comments on the Daily Jokes page are being deleted, to make room for joke contest commenters.  Though, my decision is not definite, I 'd like you to understand why all the comments were deleted off the page, the next time you look there.

The Snicker Book

Hello, readers, and boy do we have something for you today.  I've decided to write a book, with some friends of mine!  This is a book full of funny stories, some of which I wrote earlier in my, elementary school years!  The book is going to be released, in a PDF format.  Note, that this isn't an officially published book by, Scholastic, or Little Brown.  Plus, this book will take a large amount of time to write.  So, we hope you order our free book, via email.  Once we announce that the book is finished, of course.  

  We are now proud to announce the winner of our Comment Your Joke contest... Louis Cartaciano!  His joke is the tenth comment down on the Daily Jokes page.  This is the blog by Louis Cartaciano about gaming and more.   He should email me, and tell me his chosen, comic topic.  Since, nobody did the Written Jokes contest, I can't announce a winner.  Both contests, will start again and end on March 11.  Hilarious Clinton out, peace!

An Epic Laughing Journey

There are many television shows out their that are funny.  In fact if I wrote a post about every single one, I'd have enough posting material for a whole lifetime!  After all more and more TV shows are being aired, and humor is one of the key factors of any show.  What I want to talk about is a show with a mix of anime and humor, which to me is slightly rare.  Of course lots of anime shows are funny, just look at the funny anime picture example in the top left of this post.

I really want to talk about a personal favorite show of mine.  It's called Avatar: The Last Airbender and aired on Nickelodeon from 2005-2008.   This show is about a boy who was frozen in an iceberg who is apparently now 112 years old.  The ultimate goal is for Aang (the Avatar) to master all 4 elements in order to defeat the Fire Lord Ozai.  It is a series that at first was not as funny, but progressed to be one of the greatest family friendly drama-comedies of all time!  To get a better understanding of the show, watch the first episode.




Avatar The Last Airbender Episode 1 - The Boy in the Iceberg from Arturo Rubio on Vimeo.

New Joke Contests

 
  As many of you know already, The Snicker House is having it's second joke contest.  But, it's also having it's first written jokes contest!  Before I go into detail about this fresh and new version of the joke contest let me explain the rules of the first.  Here is the preferred way to type in your comment

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This is my joke:
*Type in your joke here*
This is for the 2nd joke contest.
My email address is: *type in email address*
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You will be able to submit only 3 jokes per email address (so if you have more than one, you could submit more than 3).
 You must be at least 10  years old in order this join this contest without a parents permission.  Remember, the prizes are a link to your blog in the post in which I announce you as the winner, and a comic about a topic that you want it to be about (please email it to me only and not comment it for secrecy) to be viewed by all! 

  The written jokes contest is sending me a funny joke to share with all for a whole month on the Daily Jokes page.  Since a story is very long I would like you to type your story on Google Drive.  Please email all submissions to anishwarbt@gmail.com.  If you don't have a Gmail account, you could type it up on Microsoft Word, save it as a file, insert the file into an email for me, and send it.  Please use a similar format to this:
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(for title) 

*Type Name Of Story* *Type in name* *Type in email*
(skip 2 lines)


*Type in story*
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You will be able to submit only 1 story.  You may collaborate with other people as long as you state everybody's names and email addresses.  The story must be funny in order for you to have a chance at winning.  The prizes are the same as the joke contest.  

Remember, all entries that are funny, have an equal chance of winning.  Please be creative, as that will be a key part in my my judging.  All entries for both contests are due on 2/15/13.
Hilarious Clinton 587 out, peace!

Horrible Visual Puns, Are they Horrible?

We have all seen this (in most people's opinions) the most horrible form of jokes.  The "Horrible" Visual Pun.  This post will investigate these so called "horrible" puns, to see if they are really horrible, or if people just think they're lame (same thing really).  
On many occasions visual puns were mainly used in TV shows; usually just to foreshadow the character "breaking the fourth wall" a couple of seconds later.  For example: in the show "The Fairly Odd Parents" Timmy Turner (the main character) wishes the school to be like a find it book.  So when an alien wants to kill him with a ray gun, she says "Nice to meet you!" but somehow has a giant sausage in her hand, prompting Timmy Turner to say "Thank you horrible visual pun."  This shows that visual puns when mentioned to be "horrible" can be useful for setting up different types of joke situations.  
                We now look at the other side of the story.  "Nice to 'meat'" you is pretty lame.  And visual puns are sometimes unrealistic like the one in the picture.  And the good visual puns are becoming overused and cliched, so they're becoming horrible. 
                 So, I think the "horrible" is really what you think about certain visual pun jokes.  Tell me your opinion in the comments section under this post.  

Chuck Norris Jokes

In my last post (if anyone has read it yet) there was a picture of an actor named Chuck Norris  (there is the original unedited picture shown on the left).  This man is the subject of very own genre of jokes, which are all about him.  These jokes are commonly referred to as Chuck Norris jokes.  The jokes are usually about his strength portrayed ironically. An example of one of these jokes (that I made up with a friend) was this:

Chuck Norris once kicked a ballerina.  The ballerina kept on spinning forever.

                          These jokes aren't really good.  The one I just told you is not that great.  These jokes are usually meant for talking about Chuck Norris with friends, and saying that "if Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris fought Bruce Lee would win" type conversations.  Though they may be corny I will be starting up the Daily Jokes page again with Chuck Norris jokes.  Also on another note I will add that none of you decided to tell any jokes in the comments section.  I 'also would like to announce the winner of the joke contest.  The winner is Sylvia K. with her joke "Where does the Burger King live?  In the White Castle!" As her prize she gets a link to her blog in the post.  Please go to Sylvia's Blog and congratulate her.  Well signing off.  Hilarious Clinton 587 out peace!

Jokes, The Written Kind, That Is

Remember, I mentioned in an earlier post that I was going to write about written jokes, well that's what I am doing now.  Written jokes are usually called funny stories, but I'm anything, but usual, if you know what I mean.  An example of a funny story is, well, something you might find on Reader's Digest!  I  happen to be a great big fan of Reader's Digest's funny stories, as they are funny and awkward at the same time.  But, this post isn't about Reader's Digest, no it's about writing jokes.

                              All written jokes should be based on the special characters featured in that story.  The jokes based on these characters should be funny, but ironic in the same way.  Like this classic joke:
Two men walk into a bar.
The other is a duck.
It may be kind of a poor example because it takes you a while to really understand the joke.  A tip is to make the characters be living in our in our period of time, so that it could be considered funny.  Another trick is to make most of your stories involve animals.  Well, it's getting late... Hilarious Clinton, out!  Peace!