 Today's word is brought to you by Tommy's cluelessness. Facetious 1: joking or jesting often inappropriately 2: meant to be humorous or funny My brother’s eyebrows waggled, a grin filling his face. His laughter was barely contained. I stared at him, tilting my head. "I don't get it. Why is walking into a bar and saying “Ow” funny?” The smile fell from my brother's face. "I give up. I admit defeat. You will never grasp the concept of humor."
“I understand it when you explain it to me,” I replied. “Then what’s the point of telling you a joke?” I looked from my brother to his wife, Rissa. Chuckling, she rose and squeezed his shoulder. “Vampires are not facetious creatures.”
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4/6/2013 07:22:32 am
Me too. I think I have a LOLcat picture somewhere with that joke. The cat's face is hilarious. 4/5/2013 02:23:54 pm
"Vampires are not facetious...." Now there's a statement I'll treasure! These people sound like fun! 4/6/2013 07:23:14 am
=) 4/6/2013 07:24:38 am
Maybe in other books. I was going for feral, survivalist vampires in this story. 4/6/2013 07:25:37 am
Thanks. My goal was to pick words that I was sure most people wouldn't know. 4/6/2013 07:49:42 am
I am taking it as a personal victory when I actually know the definition to one of your featured words. Score 1 for me! 4/6/2013 08:55:54 am
At the end of the challenge, you'll have to tell me the tally of how many words you knew. 4/6/2013 07:53:36 am
I could probably handle being a vampire, but losing my sense of humor? That would suck! 4/6/2013 08:56:26 am
Well, in this universe I created, you wouldn't care because you wouldn't remember your sense of humor as a human. 4/6/2013 09:23:59 am
I'm not being facetious when I say that's a great word! 4/6/2013 10:28:51 am
LOL You deserve a cookie for using the word in your comment. I just made some too-yummy-for-their-own-good cool whip cookies. 4/6/2013 10:16:20 am
Funny post, I enjoyed looking at the other words, very creative. 4/6/2013 12:04:23 pm
Facetious is one of my favs! And mixing classic jokes and vampires makes for a fun tale. 4/7/2013 07:40:08 am
It helps not being able to remember feeling humor when human. 4/7/2013 11:01:03 am
Vampires and sarcasm? I'm in! 4/7/2013 11:25:31 am
Actually, Tommy does sarcasm about as well as he does humor... which isn't very good at all. It's not his fault though. I made him that way. 4/8/2013 10:11:03 am
Tommy wants to know why you think he's poor and what that has to do with a sense of humor. ;) 4/8/2013 09:05:15 pm
I didn't anticipate those being the exact definitions. Across my lifetime "facetious" has always had some degree of humorous insincerity - and so was often used when someone wanted to back away from something they'd said. The excuse? "I was being facetious." 4/9/2013 10:24:50 am
I guess what I was trying to portray was my vampires aren't funny creatures at all. Now you have me wondering if I used the word wrong. x_x Leave a Reply. |
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