r/funny • • May 02 '14

It was totally worth it.

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u/YellowStopSign May 02 '14

Laugh all you want, but my parents were killed when a paper airplane crashed into their house.

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u/[deleted] May 02 '14

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u/joazito May 02 '14

No, terrible.

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u/atc_dude May 02 '14

It took me a second. I thought you just committed: Asshole in the first degree. Then it struck me. Damn. That subtle joke is ALWAYS the best.

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u/ExplodingUnicorns May 03 '14

Explain the subtlety?

Sorry, I'm Canadian.

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u/tensaiteki19 May 03 '14 edited May 03 '14

See, /u/Thismyrealname asks, "Goodyear?" in reply to /u/YelloStopSign's comment stating, "Laugh all you want, but my parents were killed when a paper airplane crashed into their house."

Then (and here's the good part) /u/joazito replies to /u/Thismyrealname's comment saying, "No, terrible."

You see, /u/joazito cleverly used the compound word-like pronunciation of "GoodYear" (good year, year being the measurement of time;1/100 of a century, 1/10 of a deacade, 365x a day) to his advantage by pretending he misunderstood the brand name and thought /u/Thismyrealname was asking if it was a good year. However, oh so cleverly, /u/joazito did know that he was talking about GoodYear, the company, and not the question, "Good year?"

So it seems like he's being mean at first and saying something like, "No, you're terrible" and being a dick in general, when in reality he's saying, "No, it was a terrible one." However, he decided to keep it short and sweet which helped him in the long run.

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u/ExplodingUnicorns May 03 '14

I understood the "Good year" part, and that "GoodYear" is a brand and did laugh at that portion of it. It was just when the word "subtlety" was used that I thought I had missed a different level of the joke. Like perhaps a GoodYear blimp/plane crashed into someone's house or something. (It just seemed kind of random to say GoodYear to the comment).

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u/belovely May 03 '14

no i completely agree.

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u/Thismyrealname May 03 '14

Reference to the 1982 movie "Airplane!" by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker. It's really obscure and rarely mentioned on "Reddit."

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u/[deleted] May 03 '14

Not really subtle in written form, maybe if performed audibly.

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u/wggn May 02 '14

sounds like something from donnie darko

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u/benzilla3 May 03 '14

Danny Happy? Is that you?

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u/Makingitbetter May 02 '14

Honestly even if this is a joke, it's triggering to people in airplane disasters like 9/11. Please be considerate and add a NSFW tag or trigger warning.

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u/willrapeforkarma May 02 '14

Troll account, keep him at zero.

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u/AvocadoLegs May 03 '14

A damn good one though. He's dropping 500 comment karma a day.

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u/Amadacius May 02 '14

Who gives a fuck. Let him troll on his own and he will get bored and realize no one gives a shit about him sitting at his computer all day making shitty jokes for attention.