What a waste of a dollar.

So I was watching Last Comic Standing tonight and at the commercial breaks, they had these stupid jokes that they asked where you were supposed to send a text message to get the punchline. One of the “jokes” asked “What did the tortilla say when it got to the end of the tightrope?” It didn’t take more than a couple of seconds for me to realize I didn’t even care. Then it started bugging me. What is a tortilla doing on a tightrope anyway? Is this the beginning of a Taco Bell commercial or something?

So the other two jokes they had on the show were dumb and very easily googled:

What is orange and sounds like a parrot? A carrot.

How much does it cost a pirate to get his ears pierced? A buccaneer.

I just HAD to google the tortilla joke. The only result I came up with was a blog entry asking if anyone new the answer to the joke. Finally after several comments about people saying they ended on the blog because they were looking for the punchline, somebody broke down and paid the dollar to find out. What a disappointment. What an anticlimatic catastrophe. The $1 answer was “tos TADA!” That comment was followed by others who were amazed that they weren’t the only ones googling a punchline to avoid the cost of a text message. Then there were the sympathy comments for losing a dollar so tragically on a painfully stupid punchline.

So there it is. My wife write’s reviews about TV shows on her blog. I write reviews about comments from a blog entry about gimmicks from TV shows.

If there are people willing to pay a dollar for a bad punchline, I think I will try to tap into that market. I’m really good at wasting dollars. If you have ever had buyers remorse from a wasted dollar on a bad text message punchline, send me a dollar instead. Rather than just a punchline, I will gladly send you a report of exactly how I wasted your dollar. If you like the stupid jokes I will text you one of those too. All for just a dollar. I promise it will be more entertaining than the stupid tightrope tortilla joke. This idea would work better if I had more than 2 readers.

I just re-read my blog posting. What a dumb post.

UPDATE: Went a little overboard and registered two new sites. The first is www.tortillajoke.com, dedicated to the stupid tortilla joke that inspired my last couple posts. The other site is www.wasteofadollar.com which will be more about not paying for stupid punchlines in general. Both are still under development but there is a little something on each already. Can’t have too much up there yet. I do still have a day job.