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    I must be dumb because I look at every single one of these and I haven’t seen one that is even slightly funny

    • @[email protected]
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      It’s boomer humor, but without the hate

      The entire joke is that the boxes should have washed up before the stranded person died

      I remember these being pretty funny as a kid which explains the lead addled mental state of Gary’s audience at the time

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    Maybe the joke is the time between ordering and delivery? I don’t really get it

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    Kind of a dark one for today.

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      Yeah, I’m kind of seeing it as three different options. The first is that whatever they were traveling on that crashed had these things, the other’s like you said - it was sent with arrive too late, or #3 they’re dumb and didn’t notice that all the boxes floating around were exactly what they need. Very unclear

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        Everything appears to be drifting towards him.

        I think the joke is that the guy is unbelievably cartoonishly lucky that all those things are floating too him on a deserted island all at once, put in juxtaposition with the one element of bad luck (that he’s already long dead).

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        The second one seems most likely as there are indications that the boxes are only just arriving. Also there is an old meme about sending away for items delivered from Acme, like the coyote in Road Runner cartoons.

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      211 months ago

      nowadays that’s with prime!

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      Box says gas included. Gary thinks of everything

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          Maybe the gas is in a sealed container and for good measure is located in the top part of the box.

          Wait, are we arguing about a 35 year-old unfunny comic? Here we are

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            To be fair, it was funny to me 35 years ago. I guess I still look at them for nostalgia. I had shirts with prints of the comics! “Pigeon: Poopus Monumentous” was my favorite.

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        He even thought of going underground as soon as technology developed, kinda like the Unabomber.