Depressed by the lack of immediate recognition of my joke referencing a William Faulkner (See "So I can make photos for your prof...", post 19), which was clearly a result of people not having read Faulkner and not of the joke being really lame, I am making a thread where we can all groan at people who, like me, want to look smart by referencing books they were required to read in high school for standardized testing.
As the inaugural joke:
What's Jay Gatsby's favorite Bruce Springsteen song?
Blinded by the Light
I invented a new word: Plagiarism
This is literally a joke.
(Pun intended? I say so.)
@Lidraughtsorg did you plagiarize that joke? 'Cause that would be incredibly meta.
@clousems #4
This is TOO intellectual for me, I'm out. :D
I 100% googled "Literature jokes people don't understand" and scrolled down until I found one that actually made me LOL
@clousems Interesting, your reference to Faulkner, as a dutiful Southerner I wanted to appreciate him and tried about six times in my life to be interested in one of his novels. Intruder in the Dust and Absalom, Absalom are two I attempted to begin and he just did not click with me. More interesting I found were Willie Morris's writings about Faulkner, I believe in Morris's memoir North Torward Home.
Never was a huge Faulkner fan myself. I always have trouble maintaining consciousness whilst reading stream-of-consciousness.
Yeah, I just remember what Bukowski said about Fa(u)lkner always trying so damn hard.
And in honor of this delightful new thread idea, herewith my spoof of the Cracked Belle of Amherst:
A bird came down the walk
I ran and hid in fear
He tossed an earthworm on the grill
I'd built to lure him there
And then he added sage
From a convenient shelf
And snapped the little wormie up
And laid him back to belch
As trains roar in the distance
Beyond my fence, my lawn
Or thunderheads go rumbling through
The taffeta of dawn
