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Textbook
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This might be.a bit cruel but I am curious, as a relative noob, to see what old hands consider the worst of the worst, after havng my appetite whetted by the mind-blowing classic Back Up Your Brain But Not Now. Any other memorable favourites?
That sound you hear is Arthur falling over himself to link to Dick And Balls.
...or to keep things less antagonistic, perhaps we could look back at our own subs and "find the stinker". I'm sure we've all posted something that seemed OK at the time, but in retrospect, or with the help of others, we realised was a steaming pile of shite.
A truth commission, an amnesty of sorts.
waylandsmithy
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This was pretty lousy:
Beatles tickets
waylandsmithy
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Oh, and at the time I thought this was great. It isn't, it sucks.
horrid animals
Write what you know and make it topical, they say.
I work in photovoltaic industry, an eclipse was coming up...that can only spell comedy gold.
http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=19472&topic_id=19472
My first ever sub, people were very nice and just ignored it rather than pointing and laughing.
http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=20318
In my defence......no, there is no defence.
beau-jolly
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I tend to only go for one-liners and even then not very often or any good. This attempt at something longer, on reflection, would appear to be completely lacking in jokes and expains why I seldom waste my time or yours going beyond 10 words.
http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=27190
BTW The sub from today's "newcomer" The Fat Man is a belter.
Scroat
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Humour has parallels with advertising and graphic design. There are a whole load of clever ideas around, but the longer you do it, the more you work through the not very good ideas and actually push the envelope (as it were). So people thinking up funnies for the first time are working in areas where more experienced people have been before.
It's a journey thing.
As an example, the reason I discovered NewsBiscuit was by Googling 'Graudiad.' There was a story about any reference to 'Grauniad' officially no longer being funny. It had been done to death and had even passed into common parlance.
Get my drift? Hope you don't think I'm being sniffy, snobbish, cliquey or whatever. Bottom line is, when you think of a funny idea, think of a funnier one.
I may incur wrath here, but as the Government keep saying, we're all in this together.
Love and kisses.
It's OK Scroat, we are only slagging our own stuff off. The idea is that you show how comfortable and secure you are by voluntarily owning up to having pushed out a stinker at some point, thereby implying that you think the rest are pukka.
Al Opecia has side stepped the implicit corollary by submitting "all" of his as stinkers
Gerontius
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Excellent response Mr.Scroat, I agree entirely.
If writing humour is not your natural environment then it will quite naturally take a while to find the groove.
The most important thing is not to be put off by the failures but to take encouragement from the positive response. Let’s face it – 90% of what we do in life ends in heartbreak, rejection, misery and failure – so why should NB be any different?
Actually, more important still – only do it if you enjoy it (and are prepared to take a good kicking every now and again)
Midfield Diamond
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Agree with dvo4fun but I'm also guilty of reading most subs but rarely commenting or awarding stars unless something really hits the spot with me.
As a relative newbie myself, I feel that I am still getting used to the audience. My only published 'work' is for football fanzines where readers are generally visiting the same websites and forums (fora?) as I am. I can therefore take the wotsit out of a story, pretty confident that everyone will geddit. It is also true that most fanzine editors will publish any old contribution, irrespective of quality.
That is not the case here, as I have demonstrated on several occasions with crap subs about obscure news stories. Arguably my worst so far was http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26620 but I still think I have a lot more stinkers in me.
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