A college student challenged a senior citizen

kleefarr

A college student challenged a senior citizen, saying it was
impossible for their generation to understand his. "You
grew up in a different world," the student said. "Today we have
television, jet planes, space travel, nuclear energy,
computers..."Taking advantage of a pause in the student's
litany, the geezer said, "You're right. We didn't have those
things when we were young; so we invented them! What are you
doing for the next generation??"

meepmeep

Kazu

crap :rolleyes:

the_syco

Thats more of a statement than it is humour.

Balls Of Steel

i think its missing the punch line!!!

kmart6

I have to agree with syco

Naos

tis like the american pen thing.

The americans spent millions of dollars developing this amazing hi-tech pen to be used on space missions which could write upside down, under water, in below -100 temperatures, in above 50 temps, could write on glass, could write at any angle etc.

The Russians brought a pencil..

Placebo

the_syco wrote:

Thats more of a statement than it is humour.

quick , post it on mikado, like you usually do.

Capt'n Midnight

Mear wrote:

tis like the american pen thing.

The americans spent millions of dollars developing this amazing hi-tech pen to be used on space missions which could write upside down, under water, in below -100 temperatures, in above 50 temps, could write on glass, could write at any angle etc.

The Russians brought a pencil..

Urban Myth.
Pencils made of conductive lead could cause short circuits in the electrical system.
The pen was made by a private company not NASA.

By the way the original joke is a generation too late - all those things were developed in the 50's, and they wern't developed by people just starting to work but by the senior researchers..

monkeyfudge

Yeah.. and I used to have one of those pens... they're really cool...

Pencils are stupid...

Naos

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Urban Myth.
Pencils made of conductive lead could cause short circuits in the electrical system.
The pen was made by a private company not NASA.

By the way the original joke is a generation too late - all those things were developed in the 50's, and they wern't developed by people just starting to work but by the senior researchers..

what in teh hell are u doing in the humour forum??

TattyTeddy

kleefarr wrote:

A college student challenged a senior citizen, saying it was
impossible for their generation to understand his. "You
grew up in a different world," the student said. "Today we have
television, jet planes, space travel, nuclear energy,
computers..."Taking advantage of a pause in the student's
litany, the geezer said, "You're right. We didn't have those
things when we were young; so we invented them! What are you
doing for the next generation??"

That is one scary joke. scary that you though someone would find it humourous

petals

That isn't really that funny.

:eek: some of those users are on mikado <run>

Spunog UIE

haha you losers. Its a joke...get it?

kleefarr

I actually thought that the reply by the old guy was "witty". May be I should have posted it in the "witty thread". Were is it?

sprinkles

You got too much stick. Its not really funny but neither is Brendan O carroll and look where he is today!

kleefarr

sprinkles wrote:

Its not really funny but neither is Brendan O carroll and look where he is today!

ROTFLMAO.

ApeXaviour

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Pencils made of conductive lead could cause short circuits in the electrical system.

-As opposed to the metallic pen-tip?
-Lead hasn't been used in pencils for 500 years, graphite is used.
-Can you ever envisage a situation where one would need to write on exposed circuitry?

Ivan

ApeXaviour wrote:

-Can you ever envisage a situation where one would need to write on exposed circuitry?

Rofl anyone?

Naos

rofl..

satisfied.