Did anyone get that joke?

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Maybe I'm just stupid, but did anyone get Gabe's joke in the received info thread?

Here it is:

(Well I guess his the smart one at Valve too, coz I can't figure his joke out. Well heres the mail anyway: )

Q: Why did the mouse cross the road?

A: It was stapled to the chicken.

Yes.

-----Original Message-----
From: sweetfish [mailtoxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 6:40 AM
To: Gabe Newell
Subject: Are you funny?

Well hello again!

It seams, by looking at pictures of you and your crew, that you are the
"funny-man" on Valve.
So maybe if you could tell a joke (of some sort) and I could get my
theory right...

(And to keep this HL2-significant email, will there be any jokes/hints
to the orginal half-life in HL2?)

Yours,
Sven Andersson, Sweden
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:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
Best. Joke. Ever. He was put on the spot, he came up with a lame joke, I don't think it was supposed to be funny
 
I don't get it.
Partly because I don't know what "stapled" means.
 
CrazyHarij said:
I don't get it.
Partly because I don't know what "stapled" means.
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You know... stapled papers... the little metal thing that holds them together... ? :O


Anyway, Gabe, that's a sick joke. Horrible mental image. :P
 
CrazyHarij said:
I don't get it.
Partly because I don't know what "stapled" means.
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Do you really mean that, or do I just suck at detecting sarcasm?
 
Not as bad as some of those baby jokes that i've heard. I'm tempted to say them but they're really too grosse
 
Letters said:
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You know... stapled papers... the little metal thing that holds them together... ? :O


Anyway, Gabe, that's a sick joke. Horrible mental image. :P
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Aha, now I get it, lol :D

Thanks, Letters! You're a god at.. letters.
:p
 
the joke was of course the "Yes." in which he parodies himself. of course.

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:)
 
As in,

Whats funnier than a dead baby?




A dead baby in a clown costume...
 
Gabe told me that the spyware embedded in Steam will monitor our sexual preferences and that will determine the release date of Half-Life 2.
 
Sparta said:
Not as bad as some of those baby jokes that i've heard. I'm tempted to say them but they're really too grosse
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hrm...

Kinda grosse, so I'll spoiler it :D

What's worse than a dumpster full of dead babies?

The one on the bottom eating his way out.

I love dead baby jokes.
 
Not a dead baby joke thread please. :)

(that made me sound like a mod but I hate thoes jokes ;))
 
Allright, seriously, mabey the mouse is like Gordon, and the chicken is like G-man's employers?

Thinking too hard alarm going off...
 
I dont even find em funny, if you gonna tell those jokes you might as well start doing jokes like "White people do this and black people do this".

Really people, get your own material.
 
Tredoslop said:
Gabe told me that the spyware embedded in Steam will monitor our sexual preferences and that will determine the release date of Half-Life 2.
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OMG!!1!!one!11!! I amteh sexiest eva!!!!111! halflief be releasd soon kksS?!
 
What's NOT to get!?
Staple a mouse (computer or regular, who cares, I took it as a computer mouse) to a chicken, and once the chicken crosses the road, so will the mouse. FUNNY!
 
Erm.... It's not exactly a joke you think on. It's sorta makin fun of all the chicken crossed the road jokes, and sorta a soft-core cruelty joke.

A cruelty joke is a joke that is funny due to shock value. You would never laugh at them if they happened in RL, but since they're put in the sarcastic joke setting, they're funny (to some sickos, including me)

Some people like em, others think they're sick.

ex. (grosse again)
One time there was this wild kid that just wouldn't stop running around in circles and making a lot of noise. The parents told him to stop, but he just wouldn't. Eventually the father got sick of it and screamed at him "Stop running around or I'll nail your OTHER foot to the floor!"
Some kids wanted to play baseball, and decided to ask their freind's mom if he could come out and play with them. Normally that wouldn't be odd, but he had ths birth defect causing him to not have any arms or legs. The mother asked why they wanted him to play, and they said "Oh, we just need a third base".

Mouse stapled to the chicken, get it?
 
Karis said:
Erm.... It's not exactly a joke you think on. It's sorta makin fun of all the chicken crossed the road jokes, and sorta a soft-core cruelty joke.

A cruelty joke is a joke that is funny due to shock value. You would never laugh at them if they happened in RL, but since they're put in the sarcastic joke setting, they're funny (to some sickos, including me)

Some people like em, others think they're sick.

ex. (grosse again)
One time there was this wild kid that just wouldn't stop running around in circles and making a lot of noise. The parents told him to stop, but he just wouldn't. Eventually the father got sick of it and screamed at him "Stop running around or I'll nail your OTHER foot to the floor!"
Some kids wanted to play baseball, and decided to ask their freind's mom if he could come out and play with them. Normally that wouldn't be odd, but he had ths birth defect causing him to not have any arms or legs. The mother asked why they wanted him to play, and they said "Oh, we just need a third base".

Mouse stapled to the chicken, get it?
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Pfft, those are hardly bad compared to dead baby jokes.
 
Sparta said:
Not as bad as some of those baby jokes that i've heard. I'm tempted to say them but they're really too grosse
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[SARCASM]what baby jokes, oh a baby joke hahaha like why did the chicken cross the road? to get to the other side HAHAAHAAH *note sarcasam*[/SARCASM]
 
You see, the mouse represents the cassandrian nightmare of future awareness coupled with the inability to affect one's surroundings by means of influence of one's peers. The staple, being mechanical in nature, represents the cruel yet symbiotic fusion of mechanics and flesh, and while convincing at first betrays an underlying theme of virtual environments, that the very staples that hold a world or thematic analysis together are not a part of that organic system and will by the end cause the very death the unified system wishes to avoid by crossing said road, the staple playing the part of a thorn, a reference to crucifixion. The chicken represents the fixed path of human growth, flightless yet determined to cross a void the purpose of which is unfathomable and independent from out own existence to find some ability to evolve on the other side, a death that the staple has been drawing out since the first steps were taken.

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Does gabe's "joke" require a thread?

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Reminds me of a joke I heard a year or so ago.

Q - Why did the monkey fall out of the tree?

A - Because he was dead.

Q - Why did the second monkey fall out of the tree?

A - Because he was stapled to the first monkey.
 
Is it just me, or was a similar joke used in Dilbert?

Ah, yes. I remember:

Why do women go to the restroom in pairs?

BECAUSE THEY'RE STAPLED TO THE CHICKEN!
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It was from when Dilbert entered a stand-up comedy contest.
 
You remember the classic joke sHm0zY, why did the chicken cross the road?

Now pretend, for this joke, that the chicken has crossed the road. Then look at this picture
 
ya that was funny ...hehe good to see he has a morbid sense of humour
 
Don't you see? Gabe just revealed the release date in code!!! HL2 will be released in the year of the Rat when the chicken moves into the dawn of the staple!
 
mortiz said:
Don't you see? Gabe just revealed the release date in code!!! HL2 will be released in the year of the Rat when the chicken moves into the dawn of the staple!
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omg you're right! :laugh:
 
Kangy said:
I want dead baby jokes damnit!
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Ohhhhhh yes. /me loves the dead baby jokes. :devil:

Spoilered for those of you who lack a sick and twisted sense of humor :sniper: :cat:
What's worse than 10 dead babies in a trash can? 1 baby in 10 trash cans.
How many dead babies does it take to cover a roof? Depends on how thin you slice them.
How many dead babies does it take to paint a wall? Depends on how hard you swing the bat.

EDIT: Wow that site was beyond my sickness. I removed it

OOO. almost forgot to show the worst ones (that i can stand, I found my limit)
Q: What is more fun than stapling dead babies to the wall?
A: Pulling them off.

Q: What's more fun than nailing a baby to a fence?
A: Ripping it back off.
 
Whats the difference between a truckload of sand and a truckload of babies?








...you can't empty a truckload of sand using a pitchfork.
 
Murray_H said:
You remember the classic joke sHm0zY, why did the chicken cross the road?

Now pretend, for this joke, that the chicken has crossed the road. Then look at this picture
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OHH AHAHA! thats funny
 
/me jumps into the thread.

Just so everyone knows, I think the "yes" at the end of the joke was actually Gabe answering the question about whether jokes and hints in HL2.

Now please get back to telling your hilarious dead baby jokes.

/me jumps out of the thread.
 
This is so SaaaaaaaaaaaD </Alan Partridge>

I had never heard a Dead Baby joke before this... lame :p
 
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