Can this stop? [was: Re: [Re: Console Desktop]]

[Rob Park]

Alas! Ian Molton spake thus:
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 02:47:48 +0000 (UTC)
> rbpark at ualberta.ca (Rob Park) wrote:
> > > OTOH, I, as someone with Aspergers syndrome,
> > 
> > ROFL. Ian, you mention this so often, it has become a running gag! ;)
> 
> I dont understand (no, Im not joking).
> 
> can you explain?

A 'running gag' is something that typically isn't funny, but is repeated
so often that it just becomes funny in it's repetition.

For example, in a movie or something, if there was some object in the
background of a scene (like a picture on the wall, or whatever), and it
showed up in _every_ scene, that would be a running gag.

Remember the cartoon Tiny Toons? (like Loony Toons, but with "younger"
characters). Once, they did a bit where Buster Bunny kept saying the
same old joke, and the joke became personified as a clown. This clown
was old, broken, and dying. It wasn't funny. In the background of every
scene, you could see a young, energetic clown jogging by. By itself, it
was not funny, but it was in every scene. The story itself was about
this bad joke (dying clown), and I forget most of it. At the end, the
young, running clown runs by in the foreground, and Buster Bunny asks
Babs Bunny, "What's with him?", to which Babs replies "Oh, him? He's a
running gag."

Trust me, it was funny to an 8 year old...

So anyway, the way you mention your AS in every other email, it's a
running gag. It's funny. "I wonder how and when Ian will mention it
next..." Now, it's not gut-wrenching hilarity, but it's worth a chuckle.

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Rob Park
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