David Ryan
David Ryan is a boat builder and USCG licensed master captain. He is the owner of Sailing Montauk and skipper of Montauk''s charter sailing catamaran MON TIKI You can follow him on Twitter @CaptDavidRyan
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Is this necessary?Report
What is “levity”, Alex?Report
I must not have much of a sense of humor.Report
Me three. I don’t get it.Report
Like myself, TVD is a preening, self-aggrandizing, boundary pushing drama queen. I disagree with him on nearly everything he says, and think he’s a bit of a prig. (Well actually I think he’s a prick.)
None-the-less, it seemed pretty clear to me that his last post was intended to be humorous, or at least I thought it was. But as this post seems to highlight, my sense of humor is an outlier.Report
Sorry, man. I know that explanation can only deflate the humor content of a joke.Report
If you have to say something was actually a joke either it was a complete failure as a joke or it wasn’t a joke at all. Many people tend to a post modern sort of definition of “joke” which doesn’t relate to an actual desire to create humor.Report
What we don’t have in common, David, is that I would never do this to you.Report
OK, so there’s this restaurant in Manhattan, Serviamo Tutto, which advertises that it will serve you any dish you ask for, and if it can’t, it will give you $1000. As you might imagine, people come in all the time asking for outrageous dishes. One dude comes in, sits down, turns to the server and asks for sea iguana scrotum soup with vampire bat tongue.” The server promptly turns to the kitchen and yells, “One order of sea iguana scrotup soup! Add vampire bat tongue” An older woman comes in and asks for pickled Tasmanian devil foot on a bagel with grass seeds chewed and spit out by villagers in a particularly Nepalese village deep in the Himalayas. The server tells her “Coming right up!” and returns with her dish a few minutes later. Suffice it to say, they never have to pay out the $1000.
Then one day, a guy walks in and says, “I’d like an elephant ear sandwich, please.” The server looks worried, and goes back to the kitchen. After several minutes, he comes back out with $1000 and says, “I’m sorry sir, we can’t serve you the elephant ear sandwich. You are the first ever to beat us. Here is your money.” The man says, “Aha! I knew you wouldn’t have any elephant ears!” To which the server replies, “No sir, that’s not it. We’re just out of really big buns.”
Did that crack you up? If not, you have no sense of humor!Report
rimshot for chrisReport
I have some ideas for stuff I might want to order.Report
Yeah, the point of the joke is to come up with outrageous dishes. I tell it differently every time, and when I say it out loud, which requires much less effort than typing, I usually throw in 4 or 5 dishes before getting to the elephant ears.
My girlfriend, by the way, thinks this is the funniest joke ever, and if you ever want to embarrass her in public, just whisper “really big buns.” She will begin to laugh uncontrollably for an extended period of time. I get no end of amusement out of that.Report
This joint sounds like a place that only rich foodies eat at.Report
Aristocrats.Report
Rich foodies did eat there, until they discovered that some of the leaves of endangered Vietnamese deciduous trees aren’t fair trade. Now all of the Yelp reviews and foodie blog posts tell you to stay away.Report
True story:
One day, my high school physics teacher excuses himself to get some piece of equipment he’d forgotten. While he’s gone the classroom phone rings. I answer it. It’s the school office, looking for him.
“Is Mr. Georgeson there?”
“No, he stepped out.”
“Do you know where he is?”
“I know how exactly how fast he was walking, so he could be anywhere.”
I’ll give you obnoxious, but was it funny?Report
David, fwiw, when I saw the post title, saw the post author, and saw the post content, I thought it was funny as hell. Take out the post author part, tho, and it’s just a pot-shot.
I don’t know if this means I have a twisted sense of humor, or that I understand where you’re coming from a little bit more than I realize, or whatever. But I got it. Or maybe this is better: when I read it I was laughing with you and (by implication) Tom rather than laughing at anyone.Report
They built a replica of a derelict drive-in movie on top of a mesa. On top of a mesa!
And then they burned it down, man. They burned it down!Report
I just got around to reading the comments in TVD’s latest post. I get the joke now.Report
So TVD’s recent posts have little substantive value but this one based solely on mockery does?Report
FWIW, when I initially saw this post, I thought something had been done about TVD and this was either a douchey way for David to celebrate or an “inside joke” sort of farewell from David. I have no idea what David and Tom’s relationship was, so both seemed reasonably possible. When I saw that nothing had happened, I presumed this was what David purports it to have been.
If it turned/turns out that this was mockery of any kind, it would be rightly denounced for what it was. Which is all most of us seek to do when dealing with Tom.Report