Time again for another round of free punchlines to the $0.99 text message jokes from Last Comic Standing. I hope nobody is still paying for these.

Joke 1: Where does a general keep his armies?

Punchline: Up his sleeve-ies

Ok that one was absolutely terrible. Can this joke be fixed? If you think it can, please submit your alternative punchlines to tortilla@misterrandom.com or leave it as a comment. We’ll call it another contest but I don’t know what the prizes are at this point. Depends on the number of contest entries.

Joke 2: What do you call a fish with no eyes?

Punchline: Fsssshhhh.

That’s an old one. You shouldn’t have had to look this one up.

Joke 3: Where did the cow take his girlfriend on their date?

Punchline: To the Moooovies.

Dumb, dumb, dumb. Ok, I know we can do better than this. None of these jokes made me laugh. Ok, so maybe I laughed at Joke 2 the first time I heard it years and years ago. Now I know that the cow movie joke should be a piece of cake to come up with a better punchline. For sure leave your improved punchlines as a comment or send them as an email to tortilla@misterrandom.com. As long as I receive at least 10 entries, I will come up with a prize. Want to donate a prize? Just let me know. I will update http://tortillajoke.com before tomorrow morning as well with a recap.

First of all, let me just say that I have been up since 4 am and it is now nearly 1 am and I am just a wee bit sleepy. My ADD pills have long worn off and I am starting to halucinate. I guess things could get interesting here as I am beginning to get the TJ’s (Tired Jollies, aka the Winkies). It’s goofy hour for me.

So I finally posted the winners of the first Last Comic Standing contest on my tortilla joke page. Instead of just choosing 2 winners, I added 3 more because I can’t count (or I forgot to look at the contest details before choosing winners). One image I received is now the new banner image:

That was submitted by Lara. The other winner was from Mike:

I thought it was just a fantastic tortilla tightrope image. At the end of the contest, I was amazed that I could actually get people to send me artwork. take another look at Mike’s tortilla and even imagining it saying “tos TADA” is kinda funny. His preferred punchline was “I’m glad that giant bowl was there in queso I fell.”

The winning alternate punchline is from John E:

Whew! That might be how she fell for the bean dip, but that’s the LAST time I try to impress that hot chalupa on the trapeze.

Two runner-ups or is it runners-up? Oh crap, neither of those look right to me. Anyway, two additional winners were selected. Carl W sent the following punchline:

And now, for only 99 cents I will go back the other way.

The other runner-up was Jason R who sent this punchline:

My fajita killing me.

By going up to 5 winners, I committed $30 in cash prizes instead of the promised $15. That combined with the cost of registering two new domain names for the text message joke season: http://tortillajoke.com and http://wasteofadollar.com have started to add up. I decided if there were to be additional contests, I would need to raise cash somehow. With the websites actually getting a significant amount of traffic, I decided to put pay per click ads on the site. After 3 days and hundreds of visits to the tortilla joke site, I had a total of 1 click on my ads (whoever you are that clicked, God bless you). That one click has earned me a staggering 3 cents.

After painstakingly going over the numbers and consulting with my accountants and financial advisors (lucky 8 ball), we have come to the conclusion that pay per click may fall a little short of paying for contests, site hosting, and extra bandwidth. The ads are now gone cause they kinda bug me. I would like to repeat the contest however. For now, I am asking for alternate punchlines and more images to go with the 3 jokes that were featured in the 2nd episode of Last Comic Standing. There are no guaranteed prizes, but I am collecting cash donations to help out. I can also accept other donations for items that could be given out as prizes to this contest and future contests. Email me if you have anything. If I receive nothing, the prize might be just a congratulatory email.

Now I’m getting really tired. I can’t keep my eyes open and my hands can barely type. I think I’m getting carpal tunnel vision.

I’ll come up with the first alternate punchline to the pig joke: What do you give a pig with a sprained ankle?

An apple and some twine

We’ll see if that is still funny to me in the morning.

I want to get NBC to stop sending Text Message Jokes for 99 cents per message. Or at least get more people to get the answer to the joke for free from the blog. Those who still want to pay for the jokes, should just donate here instead. We come up with better jokes anyway. Ok, carpal tunnel vision getting pretty severe. Have a good night everybody.

Second and third stupid jokes of the night. (first joke and punchline in previous post)

Question: Why did the cowboy buy a dachshund?

Punchline: Someone told him to get a long little doggie.

Groan…

On to the final one

Question: When’s the best time to go to the dentist?

Punchline: Tooth-hurty

I will probably start up another contest this week, so if you think of any better punchlines for any of these jokes, keep them handy. Winners from last weeks contest announced shortly.

Continuing the tradition from last week’s episode of Last Comic Standing, here is the first installment of the three punchlines to the terrible jokes.

Joke 1: What do you give a pig with a sprained ankle?
Punchline: Oinkment

Stay tuned for more updates as well as winning submissions to last weeks contest. Before the end of the night, all contest entries will be posted to tortillajoke.com.

PS, sorry for being late. I know this was on 3 hours ago on the east coast.

While comparing the text message jokes from last weeks Last Comic Standing, I have realized that I have read better jokes from my popsicle sticks. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone over at NBC was eating a popsicle one afternoon when they read the joke about the the tortilla walking on the tightrope. Then came the brilliant idea: We could put the joke on the show, but not give the punchline. Everyone would be dying to know the answer. We could get people to text for the answer and get a 99 cent charge on their bill while their at it.

I hope the popsicle-eating employee got fired for the dumb idea. I am still waiting to hear from that one person who sent 3 text messages last week for punchlines, laughed at all 3, and is currently waiting anxiously for the next set of jokes so they can happily send another $3. If that person is out there, let me suggest a small investment in a box of Laffy taffy. You will have more jokes to read that are even more hilarious than the ones from the show.

To the rest of you, I sympathize. I have heard of far too many people who were suckered out of their dollars unnecessarily. I understand the dilemma. How can you go to bed without knowing first what the tortilla said at the end of the tightrope. I am making it my goal to put an end to the nonsense. When the Last Comic Standing announces their jokes, I will be typing the answers right here in as near to real time as I can. I will be awarding prizes to the Tortilla Joke Contest on Wednesday both here on my blog and at tortillajoke.com. If any money is to be spent on jokes, I think it should be for decent punchlines. Because of that, it is likely that there will be another contest for improved punchlines as well as a new contest for more images. I’ll decide on that Wednesday night.

If I thought they would be used, I’d set up separate forums and dedicated blogs (rather than just a dedicated category on my personal blog) for these stupid jokes on http://tortillajoke.com or http://wasteofadollar.com and would sell T-shirts there too. Would you go to the site to mock stupid jokes with me? Ultimately, I’d like to see people going to a source for free information rather than succumbing to the price gouging from text messages. I hate the entire practice of text messages in my TV shows. What do you think I should do with my new domains? Right now they are just set up for new punchlines and for announcing winners for contests. Got any ideas? Leave me a comment or send me a message to tortilla@misterrandom.com