I feel like it still works colloquially though. E.g., "Do you have any idea how much Netflix costs these days? It's through the roof!" sounds totally normal to my ears
Eh, to each their own, I'm not gonna tell you what you can and can't find funny, but I appreciate matching verb tenses in my puns and jokes...
...unless of course the joke/pun revolves around pointing out a quirk of what happens when you try to do that in some odd context, where the point is the unexpected incongruity, as opposed to this case, where it is incidental.
Only if your enjoyment of a thing is substantially rooted in the degree to which others enjoy a thing.
Or I guess also if you do not find analysis of why a thing is or is not enjoyable or funny (generally, or specifically to yourself) to be enjoyable itself.
That's not a tense issue, it's different parts of speech. "X costs something" is using the verb cost in the 3rd person singular. "An X's cost" is using the noun cost.
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wander1236@sh.itjust.works · 65 pts · 362d
What year is it
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 362d
Its an older meme, Sir, but it checks out.
Karjalan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 361d
I appreciate it's correct usage of "coral"
Eiri@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 362d
Even older meme!
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 362d
Wait, Twin Peaks Season 3 is older than the Walking Dead?
psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 362d
"what year is it" is from Jumanji
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 362d
Hrm... not by my calendar...
...oh no.
=P
474D@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 362d
We're going back to better times
Kevlar21@piefed.social · 18 pts · 362d
Classic meme format
Pacattack57@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 362d
When I bought my house I was quoted 20k to add the chimney 😂
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 361d
Man I literally have an extra unused chimney on my house that I don’t want and it would probably cost me just as much to get rid of it.
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 361d
That's through the roof.
cannon_annon88@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 361d
I think this is the best meme format ever. The Coral joke never gets old for me.
Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 362d
westheimer@midwest.social · 35 pts · 362d
It's intentional. The way the character says the name makes Carl sound like Coral
Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 362d
deacon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 362d
Kinda like Wowt from Lost.
W_itjust_works@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 362d
Walking dead format.
omniman@anarchist.nexus · -3 pts · 362d
Kill clankers bruh
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -6 pts · 362d
That doesn't grammatically work though.
Wrong verb tense on 'costs'.
Better opening line:
Do you know what the cost of a chimney is?
A chimney's cost is 'through the roof'.
A chimney does not cost 'through the roof'.
TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 362d
I feel like it still works colloquially though. E.g., "Do you have any idea how much Netflix costs these days? It's through the roof!" sounds totally normal to my ears
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -1 pts · 362d
Eh, to each their own, I'm not gonna tell you what you can and can't find funny, but I appreciate matching verb tenses in my puns and jokes...
...unless of course the joke/pun revolves around pointing out a quirk of what happens when you try to do that in some odd context, where the point is the unexpected incongruity, as opposed to this case, where it is incidental.
To me this just reads as a flubbed delivery.
(pretend I know how to put an ascii shrug here)
three@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 362d
We're very discerning meme connoisseurs here in lemmyshitpost 🧐
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 362d
Precisely.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 362d
Wow, you really managed to suck the fun out of it huh
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -1 pts · 362d
Only if your enjoyment of a thing is substantially rooted in the degree to which others enjoy a thing.
Or I guess also if you do not find analysis of why a thing is or is not enjoyable or funny (generally, or specifically to yourself) to be enjoyable itself.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 361d
That's not a tense issue, it's different parts of speech. "X costs something" is using the verb cost in the 3rd person singular. "An X's cost" is using the noun cost.