RichardKennaway comments on The Orange Head Joke - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Anatoly_Vorobey 25 January 2011 08:33PM

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Comment author: nazgulnarsil 26 January 2011 08:01:25AM 7 points [-]

it suddenly occurred to me that many LWers might not be familiar with the longest joke in the world. I loved it.

http://www.brianstimelines.co.uk/Longest_Joke.html

Comment author: RichardKennaway 27 January 2011 10:32:24AM 0 points [-]

Does reading the punchline in a British accent make it funnier, or less funny? (Non-spoiler explanation: despite the webpage being in a .uk domain, the word-play doesn't work in British, only in American.)

Comment author: [deleted] 04 February 2011 04:40:08AM 0 points [-]

Less funny; it kills the joke. Lever is pronounced like "never" in American English. Better late than never, etc.