Does anyone have any Aspi Jokes about NT's?

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Q: 10 NTz and 1 Aspie; What do you call the Aspie
A: Lost

Q: 100 NTz and 1 Aspie; What do you call the Aspie
A: Autistic

Q: 1000 NTz and 1 Aspie: What do you call the Aspie
A: Boss

6000000 cybernetic- evolved Aspies and the surviving NT's

Q: What do you call the NT's?

A : Pet names.

I suppose we could let rip a bit , if it's only humor.

i do not really understand what you say but they made the ladder from the exit door on the lunar module with rungs as far apart from each other as to be appropriate to earths gravity. after he stepped on the moon he made a giant leap because it is easily possible to do so on the moon with little effort.

That's actually a pretty funny joke. I like the way you inverted the popular saying "He doesn't see the forest for the trees".

That is subtle. I think.

After they got their NT home the children waited patiently with warm towels. The NT is about to have his first shower in the new home they had built for him .

To keep things as simple as possible the shower they have devised is operated by series of quadratic equations derived from fragments of pre-evolutionary mall-music the children studied earlier that day.

The NT seems to be having some difficulty figuring out the shower controls.


Six minutes have passed and the children are wondering if the NT can read their "expressions".

They have promised to take him shopping in the simulated mall after he has had his shower.

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How did an NT die in a church fire?

Because the aspie yelled "Holy Smokes!!" but the NT took it figuratively and when he found out there was a church fire, it was too late for him to escape.

Chan, and everyone else- this is brilliant.

It's about inverts!

I suppose that inverses- if you a maths-type.

Q: How can you tell when an NT is just dissembling and NOT being sincere?

A: Their lips move

Will NT's find them funny? I do. But then, I have a frame of reference in my daughter and the people here. They are only funny to those who have a frame of reference.

They are good jokes because they follow the tried and true format of good jokes:
1)choose a subject that the audience is familiar with

2)set up an expectation

3)upend that expectation at the very last minute, forcing the audience to back track for a couple seconds to figure out exactly where the expectation got upended- the "aha--funny" moment is the moment the person figures that out. If it takes more than a couple seconds, the joke isn't funny. If it takes no time at all, the joke also isn't funny because it's too obvious.

b9's "trees for the forest" joke works brilliantly in this regard.

The "reciprocate" joke doesn't work as well unless the person is also fairly familiar with mathematics. I am not, so it didn't work for me. I didn't understand it until I read the explanation which meant that it took about 5 seconds for me to get it, by which time all the humour had leaked out. If I were an NT mathematician with AS colleagues I'd probably be rolling on the floor laughing.

J6chan's "Holy smokes" joke also works brilliantly and for the same reason as the "trees for the forest" joke. Both these jokes upend popular phrases and re-purpose them to point out differences between AS and NT neurology.

So as a general rule try to avoid the kind of jokes that are set up to end: "when we get into orbit we can nuke them from space"?

Well...yes. In order for something to be a joke it has to upend audience expectations. If you start out with a sci-fi scenario- as all your stories did- and then simply expand on that sci-fi scenario, you haven't made a joke. You've made a very short story. All of your jokes were actually very short stories rather than jokes because they did not upend audience expectations. They set up a scenario and then just followed through on it exactly as expected. Cockney Rebel's story did this too. It was in the format of an inspirational short story and it stuck to that format. If you don't suddenly switch gears in a way that makes an audience re-think what you have set-up, you haven't made a joke. Thus Blindspot's, b9's and J6chan's jokes all worked as jokes because they did sudden upending of expected categories or common sayings. If you don't do this sudden switch at the very end, you haven't made a joke, you've told a story: an inspirational story in CockneyRebel's case, sci-fi stories in your case.

What about jokes about aspies? I want to hear some, I haven't heard many of those.
Anyone got any?

It is very hard to make jokes about NT's without being cruel to them, in fact I have learned it is hard to make jokes without being cruel. A combined NT-Aspi Joke?



The Aspi parachute team has taken an NT up for his first drop. There is a large crowd gathered on on the airfield looking up at their plane.

The NT is to open his parachute at 300 M.

The Aspi parachute team have repeatedly explained the formulas they use for calculating their rate of descent .

They are convinced the NT's now got it.

As he is letting go of the wing he asks "300M erm- so that's like when you can begin to make out the expression on the faces in the crowd?"

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Read Amelia Bedelia and you will find out (sorry, I don't mean to be rude its just that I am a little bit busy today but want to post on here at the same time)

I don't really have any jokes that appeal to the majority.