Knock -knock

[Sharguild]

Knock -knock;
Who's there?
NOM
shit...

[Mr. Broken]

if it makes you feel any better I laughed my ass off!

[High Lord Tolkien]

Knock -knock;
Who's there?
NOM
shit...

It makes no sense to me.
Who is saying "shit" and why?

If it's the person knocking that says "Nom" then why does the person at the door say "shit"?
Nom won't bother with the person behind the door at all.
He could be afraid that the coming Sandgorgon will ruin his house but if he never opens the door and lets the knocker in then his house should be fine.

Clearly the person that says "Nom" should be saying "shit" after he realizes the implications of what he said but the way it's written, with each line a different speaker, is confusing.

Perhaps the two are friends and the "shit" is the empathy the person answering the door feels for the knocker's impeding death but there is no way to be sure.

Another option is that the knocker may in fact be Nom himself announcing himself but Sandgorgons don't speak in the way assumed in the above text and even if he did the ramifications of a Sandgorgon saying it's own name seems pretty harmless and "shit" doesn't make much sense.

Unless of course Sandgorgon's have a reputation unknown to me to be lousy houseguests and he arrived unexpectedly.
In which case the story makes perfect sense but isn't really funny.

[AjK]

High Lord Tolkien, you just posted exactly what went through my head when I read that post. Exactly. I am not saying this to pick on (or pile on) Sharguild at all or to say if it was or wasn't a funny joke. I just thought the coincidence was very funny. Plus it makes me feel better about my thought processes (even if it is just that misery loves company ).

[High Lord Tolkien]

High Lord Tolkien, you just posted exactly what went through my head when I read that post. Exactly. I am not saying this to pick on (or pile on) Sharguild at all or to say if it was or wasn't a funny joke. I just thought the coincidence was very funny. Plus it makes me feel better about my thought processes (even if it is just that misery loves company ).

[Ur Dead]

/sings to old Dragnet theme.

Nom,Nom,Nom,Nom... Nom,nom,nom..NOM!!!

[Cail]

HLT, the answer is quite simple.

Siamese twins.

[High Lord Tolkien]

HLT, the answer is quite simple.

Siamese twins.

OMG!
That's good!

[Mr. Broken]

Perhaps I could interest you guys in a slightly used sense of humor?

[Blackhawk]

since we're analyzing a one liner, im going to add to it a bit.

now that depends on which Nom it was, the Sandgorgons Doom Bound Nom would want to break the door down, the Enlightened Raver Rending Nom would Knock politely and possibly want to help them make some upgrades, or dig them a swimming pool. Not sure how smart Nom was but you might have to pull something like "hey Nom...that patch of ground over there was laughing at you, It says that it is much stronger than you and nothing can dig a house sized hole in it. I bet you can prove it wrong my tazmanian devilish albino friend.

or you might have to pick up a sledge hammer and go pound the ground a couple times and say "whew....this is sure hard work..I wish I knew a sandgorgon that could.....sayyyy, Nom you in the mood to bust some ground? ...nahh..i cant ask you to do that..you might bruise one of your stumps. (he would explode with his inability to laugh, or roll around on the ground making earthquakes by slamming his stumps and pads on the ground in hysterical convulsions)



the Nom Comedy hour, Nom Replaces Sasquatch in the Jack links Beef Jerky comercials. called ..Messin with Nom

sneak up on Nom and crack him with a wet towel,

shake up a can of soda and laugh watching Nom try to open it with his stumps. and laugh harder when it sprays him in the face when he crushes it in anger.

when Nom is sleeping put shaving cream on his stump and tickle his forehead with a feather.

while Nom is sleeping Draw a funny face and put a wig on his faceless head and dont tell him so all his sandgorgon friends roll with laughter (on the inside).

[Relayer]

You all have WAY too much time on your hands...

To Stephen R. Donaldson: PLEEZE write faster!!

(although "Messin' with Nom" is hilarious!!)

[AjK]

Perhaps I could interest you guys in a slightly used sense of humor?

Is it just "previously enjoyed" or is it completely broken?

BTW, I grew up in Erie, PA but never made it over to Titusville. Was it really that bad?

[Mr. Broken]

Slightly Broken, definitely twisted, but still able to chuckle . If you want to know about Titusville well theres not really all that much to say. Its the town that ruined the world, literally. Back in the mid 1800's Col. Edward Laurentine Drake drilled the worlds first oil well in Titusville Pa. You know what happened after.

[AjK]

Slightly Broken, definitely twisted, but still able to chuckle.

I'll take it! Something is better than nothing (unless you are being scanned for a brain tumor.)

If you want to know about Titusville well theres not really all that much to say.

Hmmm ... sounds somewhat like Erie: Okay place to grow up, not too bad to visit, but I didn't want my mail sent there.

[Rigel]

since we're analyzing a one liner, im going to add to it a bit.

Actually, it's four lines

[Blackhawk]

You all have WAY too much time on your hands...

To Stephen R. Donaldson: PLEEZE write faster!!

(although "Messin' with Nom" is hilarious!!)

So SRD told me (with a grin) in the GI when i told him i read all six of his books into an audio book format (for my own personal use)

I wanted to write back and disagree with him, but i left it at that, because instead of having to re read the books at a time when i had no time for reading, I was able to listen to them at work ....going on my 10th run through the audio now.


as for time , I dont believe you can have too much of it...too little time on your hands is a much sadder story. better to hope for so much time you dont know what to do with it all...

(unemployment and layoffs are the exception)

[Rocksister]

Joke is funny on first thought, didn't make a lot of sense on second thought. If Nom said his own name, which is inferred here, then the person he said it to is in deep poop because Nom called his own self and the person is so close they are sure to die. Or, on the other hand, if Nom can indeed speak, he has GOT to be the post-Raver-absorbed Nom, so he would be able to control his Sandgorgon rage and he would NOT destroy that other person. So as Blackhawk said, it depends on which Nom it is. It's still funny though. Shar has a good SOH.