I don't mean to sound preachy this morning, but I do think we could pick up the pace in terms of our perception of subtle humor. A case in point: last night I posted about my love of Mexican bar table dancing. This was a joke, and at least I thought it was a funny one, but perhaps the humor was too subtle to recognize. Or maybe I'm just not as funny as I think.
In any event, since the only responses I got were a couple of PL's wondering if I'd found a new way to pick up Mexican strippers, and shadowcat (who came the closest to recognizing the joke) saying that he had lived in Southern California for 45 years and had never heard of Mexican bar table dancing, I thought I should explain. So, for whatever it's worth, here's why I think this is funny:
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As best I can tell, as shadowcat said, there is no such thing as a Mexican bar table dancing. I tried googling it, and mostly came up with a bunch of gibberish about bars in Mexico. Plus if this really were some sort of way to get sex from random Hispanic women, some of us would've tried it. It pretty clearly doesn't exist in any meaningful sense.
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So anyone who says they are seriously into Mexican bar table dancing might not be playing with a full deck of cards.
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To the best of my knowledge, there is only one member of this site who is actually into "Mexican bar table dancing," and I read it in his profile. I'll give you a hint. He knows absolutely everything about completely nothing, and is compelled to share that lack of knowledge constantly with the world.
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When he didn't respond in the first 30 minutes, I was concerned that perhaps he might've finally gotten a job. But no such luck. With in an hour, San Jose guy had published an excruciatingly lengthy description of the history in Santa Clara County of Mexican bar table dancing. I tried reading it several times, and as best I can tell it says absolutely nothing about anything. But clearly San Jose guy was very excited to have found another aficionado of this activity, whatever it is. Exactly what I was expecting.
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So that's the joke. I suggest going back and reading the posts with this explanation for context. Maybe it'll be funny the second time.
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For those of you who were planning to go to Mexico to check out this new phenomena, I hope you haven't booked your plane ticket yet. But if you have, PM San Jose guy cause I'm sure he'd like to go with you.


Everybody knows that it's all about Colombian Table dancing. Mexican Table dancing is bush league compared to it.