I was thinking about the nature of “in” jokes yesterday, after a Green Firefly drove by that needed a fanbelt. As I watched it slowly drive by, I thought to myself “Green Firefly needs fanbelt badly.” I laughed to myself, even though nobody else (in their right mind) would have found it funny. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t funny, it was just the logical extension of the “in” joke. The joke that only the teller finds funny.

There are probably lots of you out there that understand the reference to a particular family of video games, and they are probably thinking to themselves “Yeah, but I get the reference, and it still isn’t funny.” The thing is this - it doesn’t matter to me what you think is funny.

There was a time when I used to think that some forms of humour were without merit. While I still don’t find jokes about bodily functions very funny, I at least can appreciate that some people find them uproariously funny. And good for them, because the more time people spend laughing, the less time they spend killing people (or other anti-social type behaviours.)

So, the next time you see something that fits the pattern of the title of this post, have a little laugh for me.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “I said ha, ha.” - Nelson