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[–] kyonshi@piefed.social 99 points 1 day ago (1 children)

...
I mean. I think I've seen that joke in something from the 60s, so at least the classics are being kept alive?

[–] hsr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 218 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Looks like that's the intention, yes.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 68 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Old jokes are sometimes the best jokes...

'Twas the Night of the King's Castration: the last of the Royal Balls was coming off. All the counts, discounts and no-'ccounts were sitting around the throne room slinging camel-shit, for in those days, bull-shit was not yet heard of.

A noise was heard in the courtyard and in came Daniel on his gallant white steed, with his balls slung over his shoulder. "What ho!" cried the King. "Ass-hole!" replied Daniel, thus scoring an early point for the common people.

At this, the Queen dashed madly through the court with her drawers at half-mast, and her ass shining like a looking-glass in the moonlight.

Hilarious now, the King offered Daniel the post of second-in-command. "But what of the Queen?" asked Daniel. "Oh, fuck the Queen!" replied the King, and 50,000 loyal courtiers were killed in the rush, for in those days the King's word was law, and the King ruled with an iron hand.

Upon seeing such mass slaughter, the King in exasperation exclaimed, "Oh, shit!"; and all 50,000 remaining loyal courtiers dropped their drawers and squatted on their haunches and strained and grunted in unison, for in those days the King's word was law and the King ruled with an iron hand.

"Stop!" cried the Queen, thinking of the royal carpet. The King called "Halt!" and 49,999 loyal butt-holes snapped shut with a stately click, and 49,999 glistening turds were nipped, gently steaming in the morning air, all save for that of Daniel, who proceeded to lay one two cubits wide by one cubit high by three cubits long.

The King was sore affronted, and ordered Daniel thrown into the lions' den for three days and three nights, for in those days the King's word was law and the King ruled with an iron hand.

And here was Daniel, in the midst of all those roaring, snarling beasts


but of course, you could easily recognize Daniel by the large green parasol that he always carried.

On the first day, the Queen came unto Daniel and Daniel said, "Oh Queen, I am in need of some tea!" and the Queen asked, "What manner of tea?" Daniel replied, "C-U-N-T!" And the Queen departed.

On the second day the Queen came unto Daniel and Daniel said, "Oh Queen, I am in need of some pills!" and the Queen asked, "What manner of pills?" Daniel replied, "NIP-PILLS!" And the Queen departed.

Again on the third day, the King came unto Daniel, but it had come to pass that on the morning of the third day, Daniel had shat a great shit, and the lions were sore affronted. Almost all of them had thenceforth kept their distance from Daniel. But one of the lions took a liking to Daniel's left nut, and began to munch upon it. "Oh, it tickles, it tickles!" cried Daniel. "What tickles?" asked the King. "TES-TICKLES!" roared Daniel, thereby scoring another point for the common people. Upon hearing this, all the ladies in the courtyard took out their tits and tittered.

Then the lion crouched as if to spring, but instead laid a big turd. This amused the King, and he ordered Daniel to come forth, but Daniel slipped on the lion's turd and came fifth, thus utterly losing the race. This angered Daniel so greatly that he picked up the lion turd and, with menacing accuracy, hurled it at random. Random, being a crafty little bugger, ducked, and the turd hit the King full in the eye.

Now, this made the King exceedingly angry, whereupon he inquired, "Where's the Queen?" "Milord, she is on the Royal Crapper." "And is she well-supplied with paper?" "Milord, she has forty reams of the finest linen." "It is good," said the King. "And where's the Princess?" "Oh, she's upstairs in bed with laryngitis." "Not that fucking Greek again!" cried Daniel.

This amused the King and he spake, "Oh, fuck the Princess!" and another 40,000 loyal courtiers were trampled to death in the rush, for in those days the King's word was law, and the King ruled with an iron hand, and besides, the Princess was a comely wench. This made the King exceeding angry, but the Queen only said, "Well, I'll be fucked!"


more in hope than in indignation. But nobody moved, save a solitary senile seneschal, quietly masturbating in a corner into a silver teaspoon, and Daniel, who, taking her at her word, grabbed the Queen by her butt-cheeks and slipped her onto his dick like a well-worn jackboot.

Later in the evening the King entered the Royal Boudoir and beheld the Queen lying on the bed, clad only in Nature's attire. "Roll over, Queen!" ordered the King. "I'll be fucked if I will!" shouted the Queen. "You will at that," observed the King, "but you'll be corn-holed if you won't!" Hearing this, the Queen shat a gold brick, for in those days a square ass-hole was a symbol of royalty.

When the King saw this, he cried, "Balls!"; not because he had to, but because he had two. And the Queen replied, "Balls!? If I had two, I could be King!"

Whereupon the King, having partaken of over-ripe olives, hied himself to the innermost part of his kingdom and proceeded to shit buttermilk for three days, and thereafter was forever known as King Dairy-Ass, throughout the world.

Blaming Daniel for his digestive discomfort the King sentenced Daniel to wander in the wilderness for forty days and forty nights, for in those days the King's word was law and the King ruled with an iron hand.

And so it came to pass that Daniel wandered in the wilderness for many a long day and many a long night. But in the evening of his thirteenth day in the wilderness, Daniel was set upon by bandits! Not, as you might at first surmise, ordinary bandits, but Mexican bandits. Nor, as you might at second surmise, ordinary Mexican bandits, but Mexican bum-bandits, who debagged him, scragged him, and shagged him, and left him with his pockets jingling, and his ass-hole tingling.

Months went by before the Queen came unto Daniel. "Oh Daniel, I am heavy with child. What steps are to be taken?" "Fuckin' big ones!" replied Daniel as he vanished over the Southern horizon.

[–] grausames_G@discuss.tchncs.de 52 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)
[–] Cawifre@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I found this reference to some ~~author~~ origin more than a century old: https://ingeb.org/Lieder/thenight.html

Edit: I misread the heading. J. Mark Sugars is a contemporary source who put together this representative example of a century-old joke.

Sounds like a distant relative to the Aristocrats

[–] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Not sure what I just read but..upvote

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 10 points 1 day ago

First, survival bias. Second, wtf?

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Well, the King’s word is law, and the King rules with an iron hand.

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 day ago

Sure, why not? Many such cases.

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This reads like modern English Chaucer and I love it

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Legend has it Rudyard Kipling wrote it...

Boots... boots... shitting up and down again

[–] stepan@lemmy.cafe 5 points 23 hours ago

i'm speechless

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

finger snaps heard over jazz music

[–] Swaus01@piefed.social 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Can't even imagine how the joke works without the gay element 😂 glad he's bringing it to new audiences

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 23 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

How does he know who the gay boys are...? 🤔

[–] RogerMeMore@reddthat.com 9 points 17 hours ago

How would I know who the gay boys are? Cause they're not exactly subtle about it! Just look for the rainbow flags and the glittery eyeshadow 🏳️💄 #GayPride #NoShame

They clearly confessed first, works better in the original version imo

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 46 points 1 day ago (5 children)

New golden era for Adam Ellis?

I remember that he was a pretty bad comic artist with lames jokes, then he re invented himself with funny self conscious humor and now has come back with a very polished, but still characteristic art style.

[–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 14 hours ago

Turns out having to churn out content for buzzfeed yields bad comics, and when he left he could actually take time to do them and care about them more and it turns out he's pretty funny

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He basically was able to flash his talent after leaving buzzfeed. His stuff with them was pretty bad though. Recycled jokes, recycled poses and panels. Basically no creativity. Probably had to do with the workload

[–] Caesium@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

yep, buzz feed 100% stifled his creativity. everything I've seen since then has been such an improvement

[–] ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

This joke is old as time, the only original part here is the boy being gay instead of straight

[–] khepri@lemmy.world 12 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Yeah this is a very old and well-worn joke that is usually about adultery or casual sex:

https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/prayables/2011/12/good-leads.html

http://www.campbells.org/Humor/Jokes/joke_confession.html

But hey, putting a new twist on an old classic like this and being upfront about that being what you are doing, good on him

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 16 points 23 hours ago

He also had a bit of a psychological horror phase with some genuinely chilling comics... and one oddly heartwarming one.

[–] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 22 hours ago

I'd say all of his recent comics are pretty solid so ya definitely an improvement

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)
[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This comic is missing the part where the priest invites him to become an altar boy.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 13 points 22 hours ago

"Was it Father Rizzo? Father Russo? Father Marino?"

"I got 10 Hail Marys and 3 giant warnings!"

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Some beautiful new art on a very old joke.

[–] yuriRO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For a second i thoght he said and three good heads