I have a solution to this political divide... let's just make fun of Americans in general without worrying what party they vote for!
Or maybe not (don't want Team America blowing up the Beehive AGAIN )
Okay! I'll start: Americans all fight like dairy farmers...
Americans are easily crushed like grapes!
WAIT A MINUTE! I'm American! Curse you, meander! :mad: Curse you and your ability to use mind control on us unsuspecting forum members!
I find it funny the most funny responses come from this thread, and not from the contest itself.
Funny you should say that. The funniest thing about that funniness contest is the funny business that got those not so funny entries into the funny finals. Funny, huh?
To me, most of the jokes seemed shit. The leather jacket one was the only one that deserved to be in there, and even then I was expecting something funnier.
God, the jokes would be bad even by EMI standards.
To me, most of the jokes seemed shit. The leather jacket one was the only one that deserved to be in there, and even then I was expecting something funnier.
The jokes would be bad even by Kings Quest 7 standards.
I agree. And I changed it. EMI had great jokes. :mad:
Can't really bring myself to vote on these either. The eye/aye one and the X one are the definite standouts, but that's not saying much. I feel guilty posting this, no offense to the writers. Maybe I'll vote for the Bush one or the "my thin friend" one just to piss everybody off
I think these results are still salvagable, especially now that Telltale are picking favourites too.
For example, when a character says "He insulfeated me in a major sword fight by claiming that my fighting skills were equivalent to George Bushes language skills.", Guybrush (and anyone else present) could always respond with "Huh? What does that even mean?" and play it up a bit.
Or they could just stare blankly at the guy until he goes away...or something funnier than I can think up.
Everyone would be happy that way - the winners get their line in the game, and the community gets a bit of an in-joke about the whole thing.
I hope this is what they end up doing. This allows the winners to be the winners, but it allows the game to still be funny. Guybrush's lines are usually the funniest part of a MI game anyway, so let him inject the humor back into this.
Aye the voting system is flawed TellTale should have posted their favs and we vote on those... too late now.
Only two of the top choices made any sense at all.
Murray is a skull with no flesh or organs or eyes, hair, or a body for that matter... not a skinny guy..
Guybrush is not a tattoo artist why would this happen this one confuses me.
In what scenario would he poke someone's eye out? Certainly not on purpose..
Bush? T_T ughh
I voted for the one about the not-so-fine leather jackets because I guess I wouldn't mind seeing those jackets Guybrush sold him somewhere in the background.
Guybrush is not a tattoo artist why would this happen this one confuses me.
In what scenario would he poke someone's eye out? Certainly not on purpose..
Well, nobody said the accusations had to be the truth. Guybrush has become such a legend in the Caribbean that he's probably being held responsible for stuff he actually didn't commit - or were committed by other pirates who are using his name (à la Pegnose Pete).
BEEP! I think CMI comes in third place. SMI made me laugh the most. "Please don't kill me." It sounded funnier in my head (I actually expected him to say it a little emotionless-ly, but oh well).
I'm still cracking up at Bush being referred to as a "former politician" of a "random country."
I do admit some understatements there.
I really only tried to ridicule it somewhat but the point remains.
Bush jokes are terrible and even worse for foreigners who never actually heard a untranslated speech or watched the daily show.
I hate the Bush one, but i like how he made a portmanteau of insulted and defeated.
Also, battle ship= win. (in a courtroom thing)
Judge: All who have had wrongdoing done to them by Mr. Threepwood, please speak up.
*all in courtroom start yelling out crimes*
"He keelhauled my puppy!"
"He stole all my root beer!"
"He sunk my battleship!"
I wish the contest wasn't closed, i could've entered that second one
I hate the Bush one, but i like how he made a portmanteau of insulted and defeated.
That joke definitely made more sense once I realised the word 'insulfeated' was half the punch-line (as opposed to thinking it was some grotesque typo), but a Bush-ism does seem a little anachronistic for ToMI, both in terms of game release and pirate-setting (although I chuckled at how the caricature artist ended up drawing what he thought the 'internet' was in EMI).
That joke definitely made more sense once I realised the word 'insulfeated' was half the punch-line (as opposed to thinking it was some grotesque typo), but a Bush-ism does seem a little anachronistic for ToMI, both in terms of game release and pirate-setting (although I chuckled at how the caricature artist ended up drawing what he thought the 'internet' was in EMI).
It's one thing to reference modern things like computers, the internet, rock music, electronics, etc. but to specifically and directly refer to a real person by name, that's just stupid.
There was something about the Governor's bust everyone was talking about ("This must be it" or something along those lines) and staring at a women's chest. Both in the Marley mansion in Revenge.
I voted for the Eye/Aye one, most clever of the bunch by far. I would have voted for He sunk my battleship if it were there, and a shame the sunken chest one from earlier in the thread wasn't there, too. Maybe this contest is just as much an exercise for TTG to see exactly how bad of a joke they can turn funny with context.
You know, it never occurred to me that 'insulfeated' may actually be a portmanteau. My favorite entry went something like, "He told me he had killed the Ghost Pirate LeChuck. Well, guess who sank my ship two days later." There were three or four others that seemed really inventive (and original, not referring to events in past Monkey Island games), but I don't think they stood a chance.
Totally agree with this thread. Whether people cheated or not I can't say, but I also didn't think the whole thing was set up particularly well. There didn't really seem to be any way to find good entries without going through pages and pages and pages of cr@p, so I was thinking that perhaps the ones that found themselves on the leaderboard at the beginning would almost automatically stay there, since it would be hard for others to accumulate enough votes to be found. If it had been possible to see the complete list ordered by votes, that would have been rather helpful.
Mine ("He kindapped my hamster", I think it was) wasn't as funny as some of the few ones I came across, but at least it seems (to me) like something that could realistically appear in a MI game (as well as containing a classic adventure gaming reference ...) I'm sure there were many entries that were better than mine, but for the most part these don't seem to have made it to the leaderboard. I actually lost complete interest in the contest during the second week already and didn't even bother to check who won after that ...
My entry from the first week was picked and put in the final "He sold me these not-so-fine leather jackets" but it's been a week since the votes closed and we've heard nothing...what's going on? I know the finallists were weak compared to the breadth of entrants there were, but that's the weakness of a competition designed as a PR thing as much as anything else. But, i think there were enough good ones there to guarantee a good one gets put in the game eventually (hopefully mine)...
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I don't care. But I do admit that plenty of funny jokes have been made about Democrats (Clinton, Gore, JFK, Ted Kennedy, Carter, etc.)
Or maybe not
Okay! I'll start: Americans all fight like dairy farmers...
Americans are easily crushed like grapes!
WAIT A MINUTE! I'm American! Curse you, meander! :mad: Curse you and your ability to use mind control on us unsuspecting forum members!
I regret nothing!
Funny you should say that. The funniest thing about that funniness contest is the funny business that got those not so funny entries into the funny finals. Funny, huh?
Aw, lighten up buddy! Nobody voted for my entry either
God, the jokes would be bad even by EMI standards.
This.
I agree. And I changed it. EMI had great jokes. :mad:
Fixed.
Hell, some of those suggestions on this topic itself actually made me lol. In real life.
I hope this is what they end up doing. This allows the winners to be the winners, but it allows the game to still be funny. Guybrush's lines are usually the funniest part of a MI game anyway, so let him inject the humor back into this.
Only two of the top choices made any sense at all.
Murray is a skull with no flesh or organs or eyes, hair, or a body for that matter... not a skinny guy..
Guybrush is not a tattoo artist why would this happen this one confuses me.
In what scenario would he poke someone's eye out? Certainly not on purpose..
Bush? T_T ughh
I voted for the one about the not-so-fine leather jackets because I guess I wouldn't mind seeing those jackets Guybrush sold him somewhere in the background.
Well, nobody said the accusations had to be the truth. Guybrush has become such a legend in the Caribbean that he's probably being held responsible for stuff he actually didn't commit - or were committed by other pirates who are using his name (à la Pegnose Pete).
However, I explained where the "tattoo" one came from earlier in this topic.
BEEP! I think CMI comes in third place. SMI made me laugh the most. "Please don't kill me." It sounded funnier in my head (I actually expected him to say it a little emotionless-ly, but oh well).
I do admit some understatements there.
I really only tried to ridicule it somewhat but the point remains.
Bush jokes are terrible and even worse for foreigners who never actually heard a untranslated speech or watched the daily show.
Also, battle ship= win.
(in a courtroom thing)
Judge: All who have had wrongdoing done to them by Mr. Threepwood, please speak up.
*all in courtroom start yelling out crimes*
"He keelhauled my puppy!"
"He stole all my root beer!"
"He sunk my battleship!"
I wish the contest wasn't closed, i could've entered that second one
That joke definitely made more sense once I realised the word 'insulfeated' was half the punch-line (as opposed to thinking it was some grotesque typo), but a Bush-ism does seem a little anachronistic for ToMI, both in terms of game release and pirate-setting (although I chuckled at how the caricature artist ended up drawing what he thought the 'internet' was in EMI).
It's one thing to reference modern things like computers, the internet, rock music, electronics, etc. but to specifically and directly refer to a real person by name, that's just stupid.
Wait, that was from The Wizard...
Funny though.
I dunno, there were an awful lot of boob jokes in the Governor's Mansion in MI2.
And grinding organ jokes in MI2. I miss the days of double entendre...
Joke that had to be practically murdered to work: goes to (insert winner's username here.)
Yeah, that's a good one too. Personally, I prefer it to the battleship one that so many posters seem to favor.
"What a big organ!"
I'm not sure the days of double entendre are quite over... we did get a joke about "pirate spunk" in ToMI Episode 1!
Mine ("He kindapped my hamster", I think it was) wasn't as funny as some of the few ones I came across, but at least it seems (to me) like something that could realistically appear in a MI game (as well as containing a classic adventure gaming reference ...) I'm sure there were many entries that were better than mine, but for the most part these don't seem to have made it to the leaderboard. I actually lost complete interest in the contest during the second week already and didn't even bother to check who won after that ...