I didn't top 100 pounds until my sophomore year of college. During high school I was your typical less than 98 pound weakling. With hormones raging I wanted some kind of contact with members of the female gender. Much to my joy I discovered that being funny got me attention. Not the warm and fuzzy skin on skin action with a hot Asian chick I really thought I wanted, but it was SOMETHING. Now, decades later I can't help myself by cracking a joke. And I'm really pretty good at doing it very spontaneously. For example, with no electricity at work yesterday I told my boss that I felt sorry for him because it must be hard to be an effective boss when you have no power. The clan of co-workers let out a collective groan, which for the punster is the ultimate compliment.
Having participated on so many tables that were obviously purely artificial intelligence I developed my beloved "My Bike is Red" scenario. When you get to the part when you post the chat that says, "My bike tells me to kill my parents and worship Satan" there deserves to be a response. Whether it's "What an ass!", "Get a new bike" or "Shut up" it's something that earns a response. "Reese Witherspoon is dead" is also good for the same purpose. The joke is, "Did you hear about the actress that was stabbed?" They say "No." You stumble for the exact details and say..."Legally Blonde...um...Reese...um" and when they say "Witherspoon" you hit them with the punchline of "No, Withherknife."
Puns based on my opponents names come naturally. Your name is RANCH RANGER, and you have a German Shepherd in your avatar. I doubt many pooches are named Rover anymore, but it's well known that Rover is a dog's name. Maybe not the highest quality pun, but my post that the dog was a Range Rover deserved some kind of response. Perfsonally, I thought it was really clever.
However, as this was the only chat posted on a two table game that went on for more than an hour it made me realize I could switch to my 'let the AI beat each other to death mode since no active rigger is paying attention.' A few well timed all-ins that should not have been called, Ranger sitting out for the second half and I finish second.
Now I'm over 100k again, which is a personal barometer to log into 25k buy ins that show that the quality of play is no better than a 2k buy in.
Darrah, thank you for rejecting me back in eigth grade. This has been a lot more fun.
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