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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (4 children)

John

Jacob

Jingleheimer

Schmidt

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

Don't doxx me

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Yo that's my name, give it back

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

...this is not from an obscure king of the hill youtube poop from like, 15 years ago is it?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

it's a children's song that's well known in some parts of the english-speaking world:

Joooohn Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt,
His name is my name too!
Whenever we go out,
The people always shout:
"There goes John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt!"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wtf is this lol. Is this what American culture is? It's actually kinda cute for once

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

My understanding is it originates with german-american vaudeville in the early 20th century.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

It's a really old song

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Schmidt

One of the most common family names in Germany.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I was doing a bit

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Æthelwulf

Æthelstan

Æthelswith

Æthelbald

Æthelberht

Æthelred

Alfred

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Norman conquest :bop:

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago
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Erasmas

Sophocles

Ea-Nasir

Beucephalis

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We're keeping it alive in the Dugnutt family. I'm actually Bobson Dugnutt IV.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dugnutt you say? Of the BingBong Dugnutts?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

No, we don't talk to them anymore. It's a long story.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So many of these names, imagine looking down at your newborn infant, the warmth and preciousness of newly created life changing you forever and then you say 'Bertha'

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

no one's ever done that intentionally. the doctor asked the mother what they wanted to name the kid but she was so tired she thought the doctor asked what's she's been doing for the last 6 hours.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Extremely NY Eye-talian voice

Eyyy, I'ma givin' birtha 'ere!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Gen-z person seeing Orly Taitz:

It's giving birther

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My work BFF has a geology degree and I legit call him that from time to time. I've got an ongoing bit where I am juggling several secret lives and have 2 families I'm trying to keep hidden from one another and part of it is calling people.the wrong name on purpose or pretending to forget their name. I've been there like 3 and a half years and the joke is that I'm basically a drifter stuck in a rut and in denial about it. It's a complex bit but 'errrrr....Mr. geodude there...' had been a line. We've got a server who's working in a teaching degree who spends months at a time off and the running gag for him is he gets fired and spends 2 months begging for his job back and gets rehired each time and I give him a new name and act like he's a new hire each time. He was Marcus last time, I'm thinking Siegfried for March. I have a skill for giving people totally normal names that are really funny cause they don't match the person. Nomenclative deteimism is sorts real. Like someone named Todd for sure owns a bucket hat.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm at a point where false modesty is pointless, I am absolutely hilarious in person. I've got bits down and have a guy who works with me and plays the straight man amazingly and the rest is extremely deadpan situational wit, puns, song parodies based around whatever food I'm making if it matches a rhyme and the main one, absolutely dehydrated sarcasm that I can only get away with because everything else I say is a really sweaty joke and those hit like sniper fire amidst a mortar barrage of the rest. The Simpsons and Seinfeld are on like 6 times a day with a basic cable package when I was a kid, it's a hard thing to bring to something like stand up and improv comedy is a cesspool, but give me a sketch troupe or as a dream, let me write for and with the kids in the hall. That's really the core of my jokes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Totally. There's this immense psychological chasm between people who tell jokes hoping that others will laugh and people who tell jokes knowing that others will laugh. It's also not reducible to just 'confidence' cos fuck if there aren't legions of people who can confidently recite a joke or tired pun that absolutely bombs and they think they're gods gift to comedy. Also the ability to make someone laugh by projecting the opposite of confidence e.g. being willing to take the fall guy/butt of the joke position to set someone up. People who never test the other side the coin will never appreciate the ineffable relationships between comedic partners and audience (if present). It's dialectics

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That might be the nicest thing someone has said about my joke making just cause you analyzed what I'm doing damn well. I've got Bender from Futurama lovable scamp appeal, so I'd be breaking kayfabe to be self deprecating in certain situations, I have reminding everyone that I'm secretly dumb as hell any time I fuck up part of an order (I work the window in aa kitchen). While doing buts it's my job to take take fall by being too confident when it's my turn. If you're an rlm fan, I'm a Mike and I have my own rich Evans at work and we got thatt rhythm. And then there's just asking people Eric Andre interview questions during super quiet periods. I was recently impressed by a guy who when the place was empty and it has been dead silence and chopping forever he just deadpanned "So, no judgement, what's your favorite race?" He's Cuban, I was the only white guy there, and the other 2 there were Japanese and Phillipino. I felt like a martial arts master passing on a secret move. How to read a room in a way to tell a potentially terrible joke in a way that is situationally funny as hell.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I was recently impressed by a guy who when the place was empty and it has been dead silence and chopping forever he just deadpanned "So, no judgement, what's your favorite race?" He's Cuban, I was the only white guy there, and the other 2 there were Japanese and Phillipino.

Lmaooo comedy on a knife edge

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

It brought the house down.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (4 children)

What happened to all the folks named Cody

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

Everyone named Chip.died in y2k

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

They're all running showdys

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why can't I name my posts these anymore

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

They aged out

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Wolfgang gang

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I was just thinking "Simon" has aged out, or at least I haven't met a single Simon under 50 in my life

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

I'm a big castlevania guy and have liked that name for a bit

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I know one or two gen Z Simons and a Simeon to boot! Maybe a less common name but not really archaic like Ethel or something.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Sabine

Arthur

Fridgemagnet

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
  • Harold
  • Bill
  • Jimothy
  • Biffenauld
  • Larry
  • Marge
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Bill is down but my bills are up!

Harold may have an uptick due to Harry potter adults who are a bit more capable of subtlety or as a result of one partner bargaining a Harold out of a Harry. God fucking knows my cousin named 2 of her kids after Harry potter people.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago
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Isembard

Slobodan

Ragnhild

Octavian

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